When it comes to tattoos, not every creation is dreamt up by
the artist and sometimes inspiration can change a customer’s mind on a dime.
This statement would definitely describe the tattoo story of James, who I
interviewed this week.
James, a senior here at St. John’s and a Management major,
wanted to get a tattoo when he turned 18, just like many other kids that age.
James did what a lot of those same kids would do and walked into a tattoo shop
intent on getting a chest piece with his friend.
After seeing his friend’s finished tattoo, James had a
sudden change of heart, choosing to get a tattoo based on a drawing he did in
high school.
The piece is basically the shape of the African continent
with the dreadlocked Lion of Judah (a Rastafarian symbol) on the inside of
it. To James, the tattoo is
representative of the impact that Rastafarianism has had on his life and serves
as a constant reminder of his morals and values.
Unlike some of my past interviews, James’ parents have both
been very supportive of his tattoo decisions. James made a point to note that his family actual enjoys
that fact that he got a tattoo instead of being indifferent like most.
One point that James made towards the end of the interview
caught my interest, as it was something that I had heard before from my other
interviews, always without prompting.
He said that he loves getting tattoos because they represent a specific
time period in his life and that he is glad to look at his tattoos because they
remind him of a specific point of time.
As I have been doing the last two weeks of the blog, I would
like to take this space to recap on what I believe to be this week’s most
significant event of the 2012 Presidential Campaign. It should come as no surprise that my event of choice was
this week’s Vice Presidential Debate between Joe Biden and Paul Ryan.
What made this debate significant was the fact that religion
became a major topic of the debate. In my opinion, mostly Ryan perpetrated this,
but I don’t feel that religion has a place in politics at all. I feel that this
development will eventually be irrelevant due to my opinion that nobody really
cares about Vice Presidents unless they do something drastically wrong.
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