Thinking About Inking: Time

A few days ago we were talking about the concept of time in one of my subjects. It's actually the one of my weirder subjects, Rowling. You know Rowling? The author of the famous magical book. Well according to her (my prof), or I don't know, maybe from someone else...Time has two concepts. It may be viewed in two different ways. There is the tensed view and the tenseless view. The tensed view of time may be represented by a string. It has a beginning (past), the present, and the future. What characterizes it is progression so that means that when you're in the present, you can no longer go back and you just go forward. On the other hand, the tenseless view may be represented by pebbles in a box. In this perspective, time has no past, present, or future. Everything is happening and everything is set. Say for example right at this very moment, our future is also happening while when we were in the so-called "past", the present was also occurring. Did that even make any sense to you?

Anyway, that got me thinking of how important time is. I think that it is such a nice gift given to us that we must take good care of it and maximize it while we have it. Because if we no longer we have time, then that would also mean that we can no longer do things for ourselves and reach for our dreams. In short, it's life's end. I sometimes feel that I have taken time for granted because in just a short number of days I'll be turning 21 but I feel like I still haven't done a lot of things, not even things that a teen should have done.

What better way to remind me of time than have it inked right? Among the many ideas I have, I'm also thinking of having a tattoo of a clock.

Well that's not really the design I want to get but the idea is there. I'm thinking more of a modern lookin clock, then the time would be 7:02 which represents my beginning, the beginning of my time, since that is my birthday. I know that as much as possible in tatoos, you should not have round shapes or very straight lines so I'm thinking if I won't get a real clock, I would rather have an hourglass. I want this tattoo placed above my ankle. Not too big but not too small either, just the right size. I'm afraid though of having that in that area because according to my previous research, tattoos near bones hurt.

No pain, no gain!