The Tattoo

A ring is said to symbolise many things, a phone call, love and friendship. After a weekend spent at a wedding in France... the greatest thing a ring could possibly represent is a need, a comfort and ultimately, true happiness.

If a ring is said to be a symbol, then it is a mark. Something designed to remember, a tattoo. The deepest thing that enforces a memory however, is not the ring that you wear or the ink that stains the body, but the passion behind it. A passion that even without a tattoo or ring, you'd never forget.

I was once on holiday with friends, we walked past a henna lady every night and finally a friend and I decided to get one. Mine was a Libra scale at the back of my neck. Even though it wasn't with a needle, the scratching nature nearly made me pass out, along with the thought, 'who else has this scratched?' Then my friend was up, she decided that she would have her boyfriends name across her bum. MATT, was imprinted across her right cheek and as soon as she was done, she felt dizzy and needed to sit down. After quickly feeling better she hopped up to reveal her boyfriends name smudged over her bum. The tattoo was re-done, luckily Henna lasts a week...

That’s the thing with a tattoo and a ring; they're something that’s meant to be there forever. Representing a truth, a passion, but now something that can also be removed and can be annulled.

Should we stick to a transfer and be safe, or just think more before the Ink and truly honour the passion?

My Nan always insisted on 3 rings. 3 rings as soon as we got home from visiting her. It was not the fact she wanted a chat, nor to make sure her phone worked, it was for her to know the people she cared about and passion that drove her were safe.

That's the thing about life... At the end of the day, it really doesn’t matter about the size of the ring or the tattoo that marks a date. It is about what the ring represents and the story of how it came about.

The journey is just as important as the result.

Sometimes nothing could represent the massive scale of someone’s passion and sometimes we might just need 3 rings.

To Claire and Anthony, a couple that had the passion, then the rings. Congratulations.