In the past 3 months I have gotten my first tattoos! Its been kinda crazy process...debates about tattoos are old news but it was still a thing for me. I mainly didn't want to disappoint my parents or make people think that I was being rebellious. After everything that I went through in the last couple of years... I thought more and more about it...and here we are. I've thought about what I wanted and I have a few ideas of big pieces I want... but for what I was going through and my first tattoo I had to really think. As many of you know I am a totally literary nerd. Peter Pan is my favorite book and childhood story...J.M.Barrie is one of my favorite authors and to this day I dream of flying with Peter Pan. So I got the quote "To live will be an awfully big adventure" in J.M.Barrie's handwriting! For me this is just what it says... Life, for me is the biggest adventure, and my life has been my fantasy, my own fairytale and living my life to the fullest. I never want to grow up, I never want to be complacent, I never want to continue to reaching for the stars!
Last week I was in Hollywood with one of my bestest friends in the world, Rachel. I was finally taking a spring break...its been a crazy semester and it is my last... so getting out of town was just what I needed! I was very ready for my next tattoo...once again I just didn't know which piece I wanted and could afford. So I thought about getting something small on a whim... just to do it. So at midnight in Hollywood at midnight I signed the papers!!! I got a Bass Clef on my left shoulder! I have played the cello since I was 5 years old. It has been a great part of me, it has been though everything with me. It has been one of my greatest joys as an artist and one of my great pains, artistically and physically. There was one semester my freshman year of college that my shoulder flared up and by order of the doctor couldn't play for weeks! At the time it was a bit of a relief because of all the pressure I felt about my playing. But just having that gone from my life was crazy! I always have been afraid that God would ask me to give up music, mainly singing, but what if that was gone from my life? I never knew what I would do if that happen. When I stepped away from being a music major... then when I wasn't able to ever go back... and now I'm graduating... with not-a-music-major! It's been a struggle! For me this tattoo is not just about me being a cellist or being a musician, but about that gift being a privilege that God gave me! Music is part of me and its all for the glory of God!
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