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The theme of renewal had a bunch of potential interpretations. I was determined not to use butterflies or flowers, so I looked for an image of something that makes me feel renewed, and ended up with a place where I found renewal.
The view from the Pihea Trail in Kauai.
This photo still tugs at my emotions with the memory of its beauty, but it’s a bittersweet beauty. I loved Kauai, and hiking the Pihea Trail was a special experience.
But I was hypomanic out of my head. I ended up with an awesome tattoo, but wow, was I a little cranked up. In my memory, everything in Kauai is in Technicolor, at every turn more beautiful than any other place, imbued with an extra intensity that I just can’t explain. It was like the euphoric feeling of falling in love all the time. It makes me sad that I can’t experience Hawaii that way again without endangering my stability.
You got a tattoo while hypomanic?… Wow:~~… I hope ya still like it when you come down…
Actually, it seems that I almost always get my tatttoos when hypomanic. It’s a pretty good indicator…
hey I went into a tattoo parlour a few years ago, asking about some semi-permanent ink they’d mentioned a few times on late-night television (this was in the era when, in the UK, the only TV of relevance to 20somethings who were into clubbing and all things “young” was late night TV… and they said this semi-permanent tattoo ink had been developed so I really wanted a tattoo that would fade to nothing within some years
there’s NOTHING I want on my body for ever
anyway the guy said basically if that was my attitude to tattoos then I should never get one!
so I haven’t!
Seems fair – I figure by the time they fade/sag/etc, I won’t much care!
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Want to see that view in person one day!
I highly recommend it!
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