employment never interested me when you consider:
Edward Teach (Blackbeard)
in his final battle, was outnumbered 3:1.
on board a ship where everyone wanted him dead,
he took FIVE shots,
and TWENTY slashes - many to the neck,
before he went down.
he lived a life of fighting and adventure
then embraced a glorious, heroic death.
imagine it -
sailing around beautiful waters w ur boys
singing sea shanties along the way
plundering merchant vessels for gold and treasure
docking at some random caribbean port
getting pissed up and fist fighting with the locals
sailing somewhere else in the morning
blasting other ships with MFKIN CANNON BALLS.
repeat process until you become a multibillionaire,
with 400 concubines,
and a fleet of ships the size of a country's navy.
all from looting rich noblemen of their wealth.
the OG entrepreneurs.
take what you can and give nothing back.
never cared about laws or "taxes" (fake and ghey)
retired/died after a lifetime of breath-taking stories and unimaginable riches.
no fluorescent lights.
no fat LGBTQ+ HR lady.
no $80k/year office job.
be a pirate.
I'm not here to say whether having tats are a good or bad thing. I'm posting about health stuff.
But.. having someone draw on you isn't "living life". That's a pretty sad indictment of life if the quality of it is defined by this.
secondly - yes, we live in a swamp of toxins. And the effects of these toxins are cumulative. The stuff in the water and the air will co-exist with the toxins you willingly put in yourself. So the issues of these toxins compound each other.
there does become a threshold where anxiety over these things are more damaging than the things.
But you mitigate what you can. buy organic if you can afford it. use the zinc oxide sunscreen. filter your water and use metal bottles. avoid phthalate in your bathroom products, no plasticware in the kitchen, no teflon pans. If you can't afford all this, then do what you can and don't worry about the rest.
but this idea that you would expose yourself willingly to heavy metals in your lymphatic tissue out of some sense of vanity is something i can't relate to.
I've been plagued with medical issues for 6 years. A certain degree of physical suffering manages to put stuff like this into perspective.
that being said - the signal is fairly low for lymphoma being driven by tattoo ink and more data is needed. but the signal is small but there. To me, it seems like an unnecessary risk for whatever the supposed pay off is
I wrote down exactly who I want to be and what I want my life to look like. then I asked what does he do. how does he start his day. what does he eat. when does he sleep. how does he handle the hard conversations. what does his work look like. I wrote all of it down. then I just started doing it. you don't have to feel like him first. you act like him until you are him.
My biggest flex probably that I’ve done so much work on my mind that I literally do not have a negative inner voice anymore, it’s gone. I don’t even remember the last time I felt anxiety
once you turn 20 you have to fight everyday for the rest of your life to not lose your personality & spirit...bc what once came naturally to you will be exhausted into nothing if you don't actively Try. it's terrifyingly easy to become a lethargic, soulless adult