Individuality

We all like to think we are different

But what happens when we define that?

Good morning viewers, so a strange thought came into my head last night, one which I thought I'd share with you. We all want to be different, individual. If we feel we aren't original then we change our hair, our style, our personalities. A lot of the stuff we change isn't permanent, but with the invention of tattoos we are now able to change our body's with a strange form of art. Art is a funny thing, no-one ever really agrees if something can be deemed as "art" or not.

The thing with tattoos is they're supposed to make us individual. When you search tattoo into google images the main picture or stencil that comes up is a star. Stars symbolise bigger hopes and dreams, a far off place which we can only really dream about. From stars we have planets which hold hope for a new form of life, for astrologists and scientists it gives something to strive towards. Take the moon landing for example, each country was fighting for the best spaceship to take into space. America won. So the battle continued.

Tattoos each symbolise something different, however there is one tattoo which although the same has a completely different story behind each marking.

The Nazis gave each of their prisoners in the concentration camps a tattoo. Not a star, a heart or a pretty picture but a number. That number would take away their personality, from there on out they would no-longer be known by a name. They would forever be a number, the Nazi's didn't care about the individuals that they killed, just about the facts and figures. When we went to Krakow we didn't see a single photo of the tattoo and it's very rare that you'll walk down the street and see someone with a number on their arm. That's because it was turned to a sign of repression, of fate most of all, of death.

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HarrietCorey