We are all riddled with scars, and we all try to cover them up because we cannot face social scrutiny. This fear of exposure doesn’t let you fully appreciate the little quirks and dents that make up your life’s experiences. These fractures, scars, and bruises may be labelled as “defects” but they hold precious memories and experiences.
A tattoo becomes a birthmark, not given by your biology, but by choice, and it becomes an important statement in your life. What would you immortalize on your skin? Your greatest success or woe? Your first love or heartbreak? These abstract experiences can be perfectly translated into a unique design rife with symbolism. If someone catches a glimpse of your tattoo, you don’t have to explain in detail each dot and line that makes up its meaning. You can keep it a secret.
Tattoos used to be a way for sailors to share with each other the obstacles and successes of each voyage. Today, tattoos are favored by our generation to break stigmas and taboos and connect with who we are.
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Franz Kafka
Ask the young. They know everything.
Joseph Joubert
Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.
Francis Bacon
Youth has no age.
Pablo Picasso
Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
Euripides
You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough.
Joe E. Lewis
Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.
J. K. Rowling
Moments of rage, youth, and passion. Brutal images and ancestral traditions almost bestial in their nature. A tattoo is fierce, unapologetic, and spiritual. A remnant of a time long gone by, a bittersweet memory etched with painful ink. These designs will stay with you forever and remind you always of the rebellious, bright spirit you once upheld above all things.
