It is about to be finished!!!

gosh !!! I'm feeling crazy pangs of anxiety right now....and why so? well, I am about to go today to complete one of my tattoos. This had been in the pipeline since a long time now...How long? well about a year......today just feels like the right day to get it completed.....

That's the picture of what it looks like right now. I now need to get palms tattooed around it. My tattoo is explained as follows:- the cherub symbolizes me, the hands(that i'm about to get) around the cherub symbolize the hands' of God, there's a banner above the cherub with the words "Ut Amen et Foveam"(in latin) inscribed in it......So, all the pieces taken together mean--> God created me so that "I may love and cherish" or "Ut Amen et Foveam"......





Every tattoo that I've gotten have marked a significant event in my life.....and surely this is how its going to be for every tattoo I will get eventually.....
gosh!!! right now I'm wondering that there are gonna be so many significant events, I wonder how I'm gonna manage the space... :)
my thoughts about getting tattoos is that "that's the only wordly impression that I will take with me to my grave, and this is the expression I want to use".....

When I first got the news that I was accepted to UTD, I got my first tattoo to mark that event. It also served as a reminder to give me strength in all my endeavors. So that whenever I felt demotivated or I was ready to give up, I could look at the tattoo and say "Alright, whatever I am feeling right now is nothing in comparison to this"...So yeh, that was the rationale behind the tattoo....This tattoo inspires me to be "Courageous"





Now, the tattoo of the cherub was used to mark the internship that I got in the summer of 2009. It indicated God's hand and protection around me at all times. At that phase I always managed to maintain a positive attitude, and well, God only needed me to trust in His plans for me. Off-course there were times when my faith was badly shaken, that's the beauty of it, that God loves me. The situation around was so grim, so many people loosing their jobs and what not, that I was frightened within at times. I now realize how stupid I'd been to feel like that. It just seemed so right to feel that way then. However, I now know I need to live everyday of my life like there's gonna be no tomorrow. But, if asked whether I wanted to go back and change anything about that experience or my reaction to that situation, I would say a big NO. It was that experience that's made me this eternal optimistic person I am today and so it served as a great platform to learn and I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world.


The completed version of the tattoo, with the added hands of God marks the admit I got into UTD's Ph.D. program, which is a giant leap for me....

The entire tattoo inspires me to always have hope, faith and love in my heart, soul and mind.....