I've been thinking about tattoos for a long time, as anyone with the number 2 as the first digit in their age usually is.
I'm surrounded by people with tattoos, it always seems, whether its a Latin inscription on their forearm or a Greek letter on the back of their neck. I don't think I'll ever want to cover myself in ink, just as the two piercings on my right ear will remain the only piercings I will ever get (besides my regular lobe ones, of course).
The ampersand (&) is an interesting symbol, representing the word "and." As someone who obsessively writes things down, of course knowing this is second nature to me. I've had a love affair with words and letters for as long as I can remember, but this factoid has always stuck out.
I once read that the "&" is used to indicate when two items or bodies are closer together than if just using the word "and." I love that meaning, and that image of two seemingly arbitrary objects or people in closer union, just because of a simple loop of script.
I was also once told that, before getting a tattoo, place the desired image where you'll see it everyday for a year. So if I'm still not sick of the following image on February 22, 2014, well, I guess I'll book myself an appointment with a tattoo artist.
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