Tattoos over time

Tattoos are like a fine wine... they only get better with age. The ink you get now will forever tell the story of your life and that story only gets more interesting as you develop into the person you set out to become. Sure, as time goes on...your tattoos are probably not going to look like they did when you were younger, but then again, neither will you. You'll just have decorated wrinkles and that cherry may become an apple but it is the journey you show through ink that reveals just how special you are.

"You'll look like a silly old lady with tattoos!" Honestly, I am going to be more concerned with getting to the bathroom in time than on how I look to people. Instead of worrying about trying to look like a "normal" senior citizen...be you! If that means you'll be riding out life tatted till' those wheels fall off than good for you. Be an awesome older person with tattoos and stories to tell about what inspired you to get them.

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Shoulder Tattoos

Tatt'd

Last night, Joe came back early from New Jersey and we decided to pull an all-nighter. We walked through Union Square to East Village, to Saint Mark's Place, where I mentioned I could get a tattoo. Joe decided Studio 33 looked legit so we walked in, 15 minutes before they closed. I asked for a heart tattoo on my lip, but the artist said he doesn't like giving those, that they might not be quality. So I thought, okay, I'll get the other piece I've been thinking about. We found the writing on Google and talked about the sizing and placement and bam! It was set. My artist goes by Ping, and he was chill and great to me.

Design completely stolen from:

I listened to Taking Back Sunday, The Roots, Circa Survive, Kaskade, and a few others here and there. While getting my tattoo, I was saying prayers in terms of what that thing means to me, the promises I made to G-d and myself, and hopes I shared for the future. I'm happy I did it, and I think more are coming.

Some philosophy:

According to the egalitarian, justice can only exist within the coordinates of equality. This basic view can be elaborated in many different ways, according to what goods are to be distributed—wealth, respect, opportunity—and what they are to be distributed equally between—individuals, families, nations, races, species. Commonly held egalitarian positions include demands for equality of opportunity and for equality of outcome. It affirms that freedom and justice without equality are hollow and that equality itself is the highest justice.

At a cultural level, egalitarian theories have developed in sophistication and acceptance during the past two hundred years. Among the notable broadly egalitarian philosophies are socialism, communism, anarchism, left-libertarianism, and progressivism, all of which propound economic, political, and legal egalitarianism, respectively. Several egalitarian ideas enjoy wide support among intellectuals and in the general populations of many countries. Whether any of these ideas have been significantly implemented in practice, however, remains a controversial question. One argument is that liberalism provides democracy with the experience of civic reformism. Without it, democracy loses any tie─argumentative or practical─to a coherent design of public policy endeavoring to provide the resources for the realization of democratic citizenship.


Much love,
Jessica