fuckyeahtattoos: This was done by Adam Hart of Hartland Tattoo, located in Lincoln, Nebraska.  The passage is from Dave Eggers’ novel A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, and I’ve always known I wanted to get it done, it was just a matter of when. This is definitely one of my favorite books of all time, and I always encourage everyone I know to read it. It’s just beautiful writing, and he has so many good things to say. I can’t even begin to describe how much his writing means to me, no matter how trite and ridiculous that must sound.  For me, this passage serves as some sort of socio-political theory. I know, you’re thinking “what the fuck, who does she think she is?” I don’t know. All I know is that I believe that while all of us are tired, many of us in really fundamental ways, we are all true of heart. And we mean what we say, and we act on that. Some of us choose to translate this tiredness into negative pursuits; they stop caring about others and start to look after only their own, only the people they love already, and no one else. Others choose to remember that while they are tired, they cannot stop caring about other people, and about humanity as a whole.  “First of all: I am tired. I am true of heart. And also: You are tired. You are true of heart.” I also really enjoy how I can wear a shirt that might be a little lower cut in the back, and the only thing you can read is the “First of all.” I like to think it makes people wonder what the rest could possibly be. 

fuckyeahtattoos:

This was done by Adam Hart of Hartland Tattoo, located in Lincoln, Nebraska. 

The passage is from Dave Eggers’ novel A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, and I’ve always known I wanted to get it done, it was just a matter of when. This is definitely one of my favorite books of all time, and I always encourage everyone I know to read it. It’s just beautiful writing, and he has so many good things to say. I can’t even begin to describe how much his writing means to me, no matter how trite and ridiculous that must sound. 

For me, this passage serves as some sort of socio-political theory. I know, you’re thinking “what the fuck, who does she think she is?” I don’t know. All I know is that I believe that while all of us are tired, many of us in really fundamental ways, we are all true of heart. And we mean what we say, and we act on that. Some of us choose to translate this tiredness into negative pursuits; they stop caring about others and start to look after only their own, only the people they love already, and no one else. Others choose to remember that while they are tired, they cannot stop caring about other people, and about humanity as a whole. 

“First of all: I am tired. I am true of heart. And also: You are tired. You are true of heart.”

I also really enjoy how I can wear a shirt that might be a little lower cut in the back, and the only thing you can read is the “First of all.” I like to think it makes people wonder what the rest could possibly be. 

Oct

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2012

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