badass.

so in case you were thinking to yourself, "oh that emma...i wish she would just do something cool and stop complaining about the world..." you now can see for yourself that i definitely did something cool. "il y a une raison" is french for "there is a reason." now, if you're like some of my best friends, you are probably shocked AND awed that i would get such a tattoo, due to my strong belief that there is no god. well, friends, i will tell you the same thing i told those lovely naysayers: "reason" is not a codeword for "god"! there is a reason for everything i do and there is a reason for everything that happens. not that a higher being decided to make things occur as such but i believe in a certain amount of causality in this world and said causality is unavoidable. it is what keeps me going when i feel as if my work is pointless. it is what reminds me why i do what i do. it is what brings the people i encounter, both amazing and unsatisfactory, into my life. it is my goals, it is my inspiration, it is my life in one sentence. "il y a une raison." and if you don't like it...then that's fine, because i just love it, love it, love it. :)
(and no, it didn't hurt...and no, you cannot tell my mom)

ink'd,
emma