No regrets

So I'm loving life right now and I think I need to celebrate this new-found happiness!

I want another tattoo!

I don't know where/what/when, but I HAVE to get one. I already have three so this wouldn't be a new experience or anything but the rush is still pretty amazing. I'll try to explain lol. It's like being out of control while having complete control! The pain is inevitable (uncontrollable), but you learn to tolerate it(controllable). In life sometimes I have no control whatsoever, so to be able to say "I want this tattoo on this part of body" is kind of liberating. Especially knowing that it will be there forever...some say that's the downside of it, but if you get the right tattoo with some actual meaning behind, then you have a story/stories to tell for the rest of your life. The stories of my life...thus far lol...after the jump:


I got my first tattoo at the age of 18. It was one of my birthday presents from my mother...it made me feel like an adult because she didn't have much say in my decision. However, I was smart about it: I made sure it was something I could live with, something with meaning, and something others could appreciate as well. So I got the standard cross with the word faith on the inside of my forearm:

When I got it, I was about to graduate high school and to keep me going I had to have faith. Now, whenever I lose sight of my goals or I think I can't make it, I look down and I'm reminded that all I need to have is faith in God. I love it and have no regrets at all!

I got my second tattoo during the Christmas break of my first year in college...I was 19. My great-grandmother had passed away a few months earlier and I needed a constant reminder of her strength, wisdom, and encouragement. So I got a portrait:

(The way I took the picture makes her eyes look a little off lol)

Whenever I feel sad or a little vulnerable I literally rub my arm and remember that someone in Heaven is rooting for me! Sometimes I even give her a little kiss (is that weird? lol)! She instantly lifts my spirits!

Finally my third tattoo was for my 20th birthday I think. I needed more inspiration. I needed to know that judgment is not up to the people on this Earth. So this is what I came up with:

It says "Only God can judge me" 2 Cor 5:10 "For we must all appear before the judgement seat of Christ." Enough said! However, this one made me a little upset because the tattoo artist wasn't the person I normally went too and he messed up a little bit (he was a little too sloppy for me), but in the end it's the words and the meaning of the words that make me love this tattoo.

I don't regret any of them. I don't try to hide any of them. Any chance I get, I show them off. The best thing is, if I need to, I can hide them all with ease...but why would I!?!?

**My body, my journal; my tattoos, my story**

- Kidd