The Writing that Connects Us
Question: "Mom, what would you say if I told you I have a tatoo? Response: "I'd kill you, why?" (this is not fiction)
This is the same mother who simply laughed when I walked into the room with "Mom I need to buy cookies" on my forehead. Why would a student put a tatoo on their body knowing they could be walking to their grave. It's quite simple. It's the same reason I wrote the message on my forehead. I had cookies for the whole class the next day. The writing on my head sent a message to my mother that she then sent back to me. Through this process, I was able to remember my assignment. It didn't really matter if my mother read it or not, for this exchange was done all day with whom ever I met. The writing on my head bounded me to my memory; a part of me.
I feel this is true for not only one's memory, but any part of themselve in which one has expressed. Before there were actual letters, humans communicated with pictures. So it only makes sense that pictures give messages as well. Though some pictures can have different meanings for different people while others are rather straight forward, they tend both to have one mood or tone. When you move on to the in the gallery to the picture that mood may leave you, but it will fall upon the next person that looks on it. Were you to look at the picture again you would feel the mood again. This is the purpose of tatoos, body paint, and even a designer shirt.
Me: "What would you say if I told you I got a tatoo?"
Friend: "I would say that is Awsome!...but don't tell your parents"
Me: "I already asked them, my dad said if I get one he's getting one too :-). Just as long I get something I'll want for a long time. And I can't tell NaNa(grandmother).
Once again the conversation above is not fiction. There was a key part of the converstation, and that was "something I'll want for a long time". The writing on ourselves, body or clothing, gives a message to everyone around us. That message can be and often is sent back. Whether they use words or a certain look on their face. The message they send back is what is most important. What you recieve from them is will remind and almost bind you to what you were trying to send. Thus a tatoo will do this permanetly. This can be seen with examples other than tatoos.
I walk to girl in the mall with a fresh new pair of timbs.
Me: Hey wutup?
She looks up, face...not bad...looks down and sees expensive timbs, score!!!
Girl: Sorry, I'm busy, I gotta go.
Me: huh?
(I really wish this was fiction)
When this happened that message I got back reminded and binded me to the fact that you cannot figure out girls. But on a serious note, the writing on ourselves, sends apart of us that bring us closer to that part of us. When one gets a tatoo in memory of a loved one, it brings them closer to that loved one; even when their gone or when they loose to the browns.
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