f**ky**htattoos:
I recently took my first trip overseas to Japan. In Hiroshima, we attended the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. It was in there that I saw some of the paper cranes crafted by Sadako Sasaki in an attempt to wish herself rid of leukemia induced by the atom bomb radiation. I stood there staring at the birds and tearing up, remembering how much that story had affected me when I read Eleanor Coerr’s retelling of her story when I was Sadako’s age. That night, I stayed up for hours, thinking of mortality and how I should not take one single moment of my life for granted, as it’s just a delicate thing that will be over and can be extinguished in the time it takes to sigh. I decided to remind myself of that everyday with this tattoo. You don’t have to live forever, you just have to live. And that’s exactly what I plan on doing.
