Tattoos have always been a love of mine. I think they're one of the most simplistic forms of art and that you can truly wear your heart on your sleeve. It bugs me how there is such a controversy with tattoos saying that they're "trashy" and that they ruin skin. I think that they're beautiful. I honestly see no problem with tattoos, I never have. I've always wanted a tattoo and I've literally drawn on myself since I was in elementary school hoping that one day, the ink would stain my skin and stay there. Now that it's almost my eighteenth birthday, I keep hoping that a tattoo is in my near future, but with my mom's approval. I highly doubt she would let me get the tattoo I want, but I would rather just ask her and have her approval on it rather than go out and do it and have war waged on the house for the remainder of the time I live with my parents. 

I know the first tattoo I want is a script tattoo and I'm torn between two. One is actually a quote from and Avett Brothers song 'I and Love and You' and it kind of sums up my life at this point.  It's the verse that says "When at first I learned to speak, I used all my words to fight" and it kind of represents how I've grown up all my life fighting and I will always fight for what I believe in. The other is from more recent events and keeps my head leveled, but it's another song lyric from one of my favorite songs 'Lua' by Bright Eyes and it says "When everything is lonely I can be my own best friend" and it really hits home for me. I've always grown up with friends around me but I've always seemed to lose them one way or another and I've learned that, in the long run, I have to rely on myself more than anyone else. Anyway, those tattoos both have special meaning to me and I might get both, but for right now I'm justing hoping I get one!