Affaire de coeur

so today i did my tattoo. weird, but i’m somehow afraid to let my mum know about it. i usually don’t think twice about what she thinks about the skin art i adorn because it’s really typical for a parent to nag, lecture, criticize. i think the only reasons why i might be feeling this way is because firstly, she’s against snakes and the sort. she feels it’s satanic. and i think i ought to make clear to anyone who reads this, that it is not a proclamation that i’m satanic. or into satanism or that i’m possessed by some devil. because if there isn’t any significance to it at all, i wouldn’t go through the pain to get it.

i do not even know why people put pain into consideration when putting a tattoo. my belief is that, if you want something – not for the fun of it. but because of a certain meaning you want to instill onto your skin, then the pain shouldn’t be an obstacle. so it’s simple to decide whether you want a tattoo or not. can you afford it, do you absolutely love the design, and can you go through having that design, or word on your body for the rest of your life.

anyway, if i’m ever going to post a picture of it here. i will only do so when the whole thing is complete. snakes are a significant part of my life because i’ve been with good friends, best friends even, with people who are born in the year of the snake. and they are important because they’ve made significant changes in my life and to the person who is now sitting here, writing this – me.

today while joe was drawing the tattoo for me, not being overly superstitious, but .. glass broke, before that the hanger holding the curtain fell. i don’t know what it means, but technically these are bad omens. i’m not going to make much of it, but hope for the best.

i learnt also, while doing the tattoo. that pain is all in the mind. if you tell yourself it doesn’t hurt, it won’t hurt as much. at least that’s for me. and to see the beautiful result in a tattoo, (definitely you have to have a good artist as well) .. this is what you have to go through in order to get there. same applies to many things in life.

i believe in guardian angels.