after some deliberation, i’ve decided firstly, Walt Whitman is staying.
I will be getting the words “and your very flesh will be a great poem” in wrap around text on my right ring finger. i chose the right hand, simply because i am right handed. i chose the ring finger because i feel that represents the commitment i have to both these words, and the words i write.
the second tattoo will be the law of identity. as we learned it, in it’s symbolic form in TOK: A ≡ A. with a twist. god bless IB. this is the one thing i can walk away with that has meant something. and they didn’t even come up with it. i’ve been playing with this idea for quite sometime, and initially, decided to just do the symbol for ‘is’, which coincidentally is the symbol for the band, WTL. then i decided that was too obscure. and around 5:00 this morning, when i should have been sleeping, or at least studying for my urban studies final, i came up with this:
so it would actually say “a is a” and i love that. as far as where i’m going to put it, i am thinking over my heart, as cliche as that sounds. although i am a student of philosophy, and the mind is a jewel, i’ve lately been greatly influenced by something Toussaint Morrison said in his show, “nonetheless”. the quote is “if this [the heart] is unsettled, than this [the mind] cannot rest.” and i do, very much believe that even though we make decesions with our minds, we think with our hearts. the other place i am thinking of putting it, is inside my left wrist, like the original idea with the symbol for ‘is’/WTL. that would be a lot less awkward to show, considering that half of my right breast wouldn’t have to be revealed. but only time will tell.
but yes. so it is written, so it shall be done.
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