Billy's Reminder to Himself - Life is Half Full
Billy has several tattoos, but he chose this set of eight, each letter spelling out the message.
"It's the endless question," he mused, "of the glass being half-empty or half-full."
"So," I interjected, "you're an optimist?"
On the contrary, he informed me, optimism does not come naturally to him. He "would like to be" more of a "glass half-full" person, but he has had his share of challenges, to say the least.
Billy has been clean for two years, after a long struggle with heroin addiction.
The letters on his fingers come together when he makes fists, and he acknowledged that he often has "to beat it into [his] head to think more positively".
"By ourselves, we are not complete," he said, and explained how this simple interaction, two strangers meeting and discussing a tattoo, it's this kind of event that is what life is all about.
Billy was very positive, talking about a tattoo that grounded him and gave him the strength to live his life in a more fulfilling way.
The fingers were inked at Cliff's Tattoo of Long Island.
Thanks to Billy for sharing his ink and taking the time to talk tattoo!
Blog Archive
-
▼
2008
(220)
-
▼
June
(30)
- Because She Said So
- Jessica Follows Up and Shares a Little More
- Introducing Fabiana's Ink
- An Elaborate Sugar Skull Reminds Chris That Death ...
- Tom's Pearl Jam Stickman Tattoo
- Jessica Shares Some of Her Tattoos before Pearl Ja...
- Tattoos I Know: Rob's Traditional Japanese Dragons
- Peter Caruso's Ink: Old-School Brooklyn Represented
- xGoboBeanx's Fairy Tattoo
- Tattoos from the Blogosphere: Mat's Take on the Su...
- Syndy's Windjammer in Honor of Nanny
- Kurt Vonnegut Remembered. So it goes.
- Soulthief
- Kali Takes Manhattan
- Ellen Lives on in Kate's Ink
- Repost for Father's Day: Memorial for a Father
- Matthew's Celestial Neck Tattoo
- Jenny's Interpretation of Yin and Yang
- Billy's Reminder to Himself - Life is Half Full
- Nicole's First Tattoo: Free as a Bird
- Appe-tattoo for Destruction
- Heeeeeeeeere's Victor's Tattoos!
- Maria's Family Tree, Flowering
- Krystynna Shares Her First Tattoo
- Pursuit Until Capture
- Nancy's Dragon at the Fifth Avenue Festival
- The Return of Danielle's Ink
- Erin's Tattoos for Loss and Healing
- Jennifer's Butterfly, 2 Weeks out of the Cocoon
- Fertility Goddess on the N Train
-
▼
June
(30)