My Tattoo & The Meaning Behind

A Short Story about my Tattoo

I questioned life, existence and purpose ever since I remembered breathing air on this beautiful planet. I was not depressed, I was just very different than my peers.

I am a very deep human, but I was crazy deep for a child to be. I encountered a statement of poetry stating that poets use a semi-colon in their poems because there is so much that they want to add but they’re stopping now;

that made its signature on me because I knew there is so much I can write but I stop too;

That was not the entire reason for me to get a semi-colon tattoo. I was not even writing anything when I got that tattoo but there was that one pull, a reminder by my past self to my future self — to write. Somehow I always knew I would write one day.

I got that tattoo when I was 15, my parents took me to Thailand because they thought travelling will fix my mood(it didn’t). I went there and got this tattoo because I wanted the physical pain because I was in much deeper pain emotionally and mentally. It is something I am not ready to share with the world but that is one of the reasons behind my tattoo.

It was also a reminder for me to know how far I will go and that I can go far.

Little did I know, I came farther than I expected and my life has been an interesting ride of pain, wisdom and many mixed metaphors that I can come up with!

Namasté Lots of Love!

Thank you Lucy Dan 蛋小姐 (she/her/她) for always coming up with amazing reflective themes to write on! I admire your work!