Biology

"Cause if you're not really there
Then the stars don't even matter
Now I'm filled to the top with fear
But it's all just a bunch of matter" -Sam Sparro, Black and Gold

This song speaks about love, but also matter, which is a subject that is beyond intriguing. I sat in my room yesterday investigating my body and trying to understand it. And objectively speaking, humans and animals are just flesh, bones, skin, muscles, and fat. Seventy percent water and yet we have the ability to live, breathe, think, and most staggering, continue to reinvent and create. All from bones and flesh, a soccer player who runs 4 minute miles and jumps however high is created. It's mind-blowing. I wish I were better at math and science.

"Can we pretend like airplanes
in the night sky are like shooting stars
I could really use a wish right now (wish right now, wish right now)"
"And all the glitz and the glam and the fashion
And all the pandemonium and all the madness
There comes a time where you fade to the blackness
And when you’re staring at that phone in your lap
And you hoping but them people never call you back" -B.O.B ft Hayley Williams.

But what I'm more astonished is how flesh and bones can create passion, strive, emotion, and a philosophical belief system that defines each person. Basically how flesh and matter create a spirit as though when stars die, their mass of energy gets transferred to us.

The idea of the tattoo is brilliant because it’s so passionate and daring. To have something a person feels passionately about or triggered by that he/she must have it on his/her being, I think is astonishing. And for me, my spirit comprises of words. Empathy, meaning human connection and the desire to feel what the other is feeling, is inked on my back. When I think about what is essential, PERSEVERANCE always comes up. It goes hand in hand with PERSISTENCE. A reminder to myself to keep going could possibly be inked on each foot.

On my wrists, the idea of words such as STRENGTH and FREEDOM. I speak through words and writing and that’s where my strength as a woman flourishes. And maybe mid-way down my back, EQUALITY. I have scoliosis. The top of my back is curved one way and the bottom, another way. Like an S, it balances itself out. It speaks to the idea that all the parts are equally important. All the human races are equally important. All the human sexes and genders are equally important. And everyone should be given opportunity to have freedom, literally and figuratively, to be free from prejudice and to be happy.

And then there's the word, REVOLUTION, a must.

To imagine, all these ideas of human kind and right/wrong comes from biology and the flesh of human bodies.