Something I have wanted to do for the last eight years. I remember checking out tattoo sites online when I was 17, and picking out designs and storing them for reference.
This year I finally decided what I wanted, I asked a very special person to design it for me and now, after about three months, it’s on me. My dragonfly.
Most people say a dragonfly is a clichéd design. But when I read about them, it occurred to me how beautifully perfect it was for me, right now, at this moment.
“The more you learn about this small but powerful creature, the more you understand that it is not merely a testimony to beauty, but also strength and most importantly, change.”
What amazed me, was that the dragonfly can spend three years in the nymph stage, living underwater, waiting to painfully morph into what they finally are. They are fierce, delicate, mystical and real, all at the same time. Native American astrology believes that every person has their own totem animal spirit, I’m not certain that mine is a dragonfly, but I am certain I love everything it stands for:
“The dragonfly spirit means you must consciously make an effort to express your hopes, dreams, needs and wishes. It is the essence of the winds of change; it carries messages of wisdom and enlightenment. It beckons you to seek out the parts of your habits that need changing, and then guides you to the path of transformation”
2006 has been a fabulous year – things have changed, I have changed - for better, not so much worse. I’ve travelled more than ever (two trips to Goa, two months in America and most recently Daman), I’ve changed jobs, and I am finally in an agency I have wanted to join for a year, My beautiful niece was born, I’ve met so many wonderful people, some who have changed the way I look at life. If I continue I might get into a whole barrage of reasons.
Honestly, I can’t think of a better, more beautiful way to commemorate the year.
Forever, I shall look over my right shoulder and remember.
Salute!
Not the best picture, but it'll do for now. Oh and look, the first picture I have of me on my blog. Talk about change and new beginnings, eh?
5 comments:
is it a temporary tattoo? I'm asking because you mentioned that it's only going to be on you for "about three months".
Egg: "...asked a very special person to design it for me and now, after about three months, it’s on me." - Does not in anyway mean it is going to be on me for only three months... It means, three months after asking the special person to design it for me, it is ON me.
Vin: Thank you kindly :)
Oh! Somehow I read "... and now, FOR about three months, it's on me." Well well, it all makes sense now.
nice! i want a tattoo too!!!
get one. i am a fan and i loveeee it :)
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