Sojourner: Permanent Reminders

So I've become obsessed with deciding on my next tattoo.

My first isn't anything exciting to others. Just a small elephant

under my ankle.

It hurt like hell!!!

But it has meaning to me. I love elephants. They are graceful,

mate for life and don't forget. Graceful and unforgetful

- two things I'm not :)

I really want to get sojourner on my foot.

Origin: 1200–50; (v.) ME sojurnen <>sojorner to rest, stay <>*subdiurnāre,equiv. to L sub- sub- + diurn(us) of a day + -āre inf. suffix; (n.) ME sojurne<>sojorn, deriv. of the v.; see journey

I'm only a sojourner on this earth. It's my temporary home until

heaven and eternity.

I like to remember that. It makes everything I do here and now

more important.

I don't know if that makes sense to others, but it does to me and

that's all that matters, right?

But then there were so many others I would LOVE.

I want to get a quote on my back, probably this one as it's one of

my top favourites!

I am only one, but still I am one. I can not do everything, but still

I can do something. And because I can not do everything I will not

refuse to do the something I can do. - Helen Keller

And then I would love to get the word change on my wrist. I had a

friend laugh at the irony in getting the word Change as a tattoo,

something which is permanent and can't be changed :)

But I'm always forgetting that change is something I have to do,

it can't happen unless I step out and cause it.

hmm it's mainly words I want. Permanent reminders to myself,

about who I am, who I want to be and what I can do.

Gotta be careful though, don't want to look trashy.

And I know my family are all against tattoos. They didn't bring me

up to want them. But that is who I am. I like how it portrays who I

am. I like that it can be a permanent statement to the world of on

what I stand.

I don't know others opinions on the idea, I'm sure they vary from

complete disgust to whatever floats your boat.

But for me, I'm in love with them.

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