I don’t want to be anyone else.
I’m my own hero.
"Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace."
— Oscar Wilde (via kalmiacedar)
(via tattoolit)
It’s an illustration of ’Waiting for Godot’ by Samuel Beckett I once found on the internet. One of the main ideas within the Theatre of The Absurd is that they have an existential view of life, that is they consider this life to be the only life we’ll ever have and things like the afterlife they consider to be fabrications. Like Sartre once said, it’s funny how every human being is characterized by fear, the moment he starts realizing they have been put on the earth and life is not endless they hopelessly wait until death comes for them. The ‘have a little faith’ refers to the possibility of Godot representing God (although Beckett himself denies this). Still, it is likely to be so, since Beckett insisted on the fact that the play should be pronounced GOD-ot and not god-OT. My grandma always taught me to believe, to believe in the fact that we will see the ones we love and lose again, in one way or another. That’s why ‘have a little faith’ is tattood beneath the picture, you do have to have a little faith that something such as God exists. The other meaning of ‘have a little faith’ applies as well on my tattoo. Just like my mother, I always look at a matter optimistically: ‘don’t worry, be happy’ in some sort of way. Furthermore, Beckett was English-speaking but also wrote in French, which are the 2 languages I study. In the absurd plays of those time, many improbable and often ridiculous things are bound to happen. This characterizes me as well, laughing about all sorts of nonsense, which makes me happy. I could have also put the tattoo on my left arm, but then Estragon would have been walking towards nothingness, now he’s leaving and walking towards my heart or my soul.
