mycow80

Hi everyone, this is my introduction post.. I'm from Philly! I don't have any tattoos !! The reason why is because I never knew what I would want on my body.. but I knew that it would need to mean something really important to me if I ever were to get one. I could just never figure out what could possibly mean so much to justify having one. But I think I have found something that really means a lot to me. It all came to me after a really stupid but significant event in my life. I was drunk and sort-of instigated a fight and got punched in the face really bad... and started a horrible drama that lasted 5 weeks.. involving my job.. a ton of crap and it was just really stressful and sucked a lot. I guess I didn't really instigate it, but looking back there were clear times when I could've just ended it & allowed it to not escalate as bad as it did. Anyways, it sucked and I never want to go through anything like that ever again. So the idea of my tattoo would be something that means to me/ prompts me to do the following: - Stop - Slow down - Think things through - Think about what could happen, and if I really want that to happen - Act accordingly so that I don't get myself into some situation I don't want to be in - Love the people close to me no matter what is happening / how I am feeling in that moment. Whether it be my friends, boyfriend or whatever -- I don't ever want to hurt anyone, say anything that I will regret later, or do something really stupid. Also something that will remind me to be a good person, don't do stupid things and try to act in good ways so I have good karma. Sort of the way religious people can guide their lives by so that they can feel confident that they're a good person? I've already begun to try thinking this way quite a bit but it's not instilled in my mind yet; I don't know -- maybe having a tattoo that reminds me of this will help? Do you think so? I can imagine myself starting to bicker into a fight with my BF and sometimes I feel a resistance in my head before I say something kind of like "no no no don't say that" but then I do and my sub-conscious is like "Ohhhhh you dumbass you said it" .. and then once I do say it I'm feeling kind of stupid. And I realize that had I just reminded myself "look I really really love him" I probably wouldn't have bickered. My tattoo would remind me to do this when I feel a fight coming on. So anyways -- what do you guys think? I still don't know what this symbol / tattoo would look like. I need to find ideas. I really want it to be my own idea, I'm just not sure what it would be yet. Or if there are any symbols out there that mean this. What type of thing would mean what I described above, to you?