First of all, hello! I took a well deserved two-week break after my last post in which I bared my soul on how I feel one year on after leaving what I spent ten years of my life thinking would be my dream job. Thank you very much for all of the love and support on that post - it was entirely overwhelming as barely anyone usually actively engages with my blog past a 'like' on Facebook, so it was very comforting having so many well wishes and 'congratulations' sent my way, thank you!
This will be the penultimate post of 2021, and I'm excited about it as it's all about my 6th tattoo, (in total), which is also my fifth this year. I still find that absolutely wild, but let's get into it.
This tattoo is a small wave symbol on the back of my neck, and I absolutely love it. I'm pretty sure this one honestly took less than ten minutes, and I barely felt it at all. I'd read a lot about neck tattoos hurting a huge amount before I went in for mine and I'm happy to announce I had the exact opposite experience, but I admit that mine is a very tiny, simple fine line design, so it's difficult for me to relate that to someone with their entire neck done!
After the blog post I wrote after my last tattoo which included an entire Taylor Swift Ted Talk in it, you'll be pleased to know that this one doesn't have a huge amount of back story, although I have found that there are a number of reasons why I love this tattoo, during the planning of designing/booking it. The event that actually made me add it to my tattoo list in the first place is that Stephen and I went to Devon for our minimoon a few months ago, and we were sat on the train, staring out on to Dawlish Warren, and I remember thinking that it was just the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen - the sun was setting while the water crashed against the sand, while Stephen and I were holding hands excitedly thinking about our minimoon, and all I could think was that I wanted to eternalise that moment somehow, and so I opened my 'tattoo list' note on my phone and just put a simple wave emoji into it.
Stephen and I have spent a lot of time by the sea, and it has become a real place of peace for me because of him and our trips to Brighton, Walton-On-The-Naze, and Devon. I was absolutely terrified of the sea growing up due to letting go of my uncle's hand when I was small and charging off into the sea because I thought I was a big girl and I could do it myself, until a wave came around and almost took me down - so having the sea become a place of peace after that was surely no easy feat, but Stephen and his family have made that possible for me, and I'm so happy about that.
The act of putting the wave emoji on to my tattoo list reminded me of a John Mayer song called, you guessed it, 'emoji of a wave', which I was absolutely obsessed with when it came out in 2017. The song is actually about being in a long distance relationship in which he and his partner would send each other the emoji of a wave symbol when things got hard, 'and it just meant: “It’s all a little too much right now.”, and he would send one back to signal “Yeah, I get it.” You’d be surprised how okay that made things, just to see one little emoji of a wave.' Stephen and I didn't really have an equivalent of the wave emoji that we would send to each other without words when we were finding our long distance relationship difficult, but I can entirely relate to the sentiment of it breaking your heart being apart from your person, and even though you're pretty sure it'll be okay - it's just a wave of sadness that can suddenly come down on you and it hurts.
We're not in a long distance relationship anymore so I think I relate to the 'oh honey, it's just a wave' lyric from the chorus a little differently now - more in a way that all emotions are fleeting - and while we are allowed to feel all of our feelings as a part of the human experience, not just happiness as we're trained to believe, while I'm sitting with whatever emotion I'm feeling that nobody particularly wants to, this tattoo reminds that it won't last forever. It's just a wave.
As always, I've popped this into the 'tattoos' category on my blog, so feel free to have a scroll through that if you missed any of my previous run-downs of my tattoos. I already have my next two tattoos booked for January 2022 - they're both Taylor Swift inspired and I'm very excited about them, so there will absolutely more tattoo content coming your way soon.
See you next week for my annual 'book favourites', which will be my last post of the year! xo
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