I'm planning on getting my first tattoo at the end of the year; two paper planes on my right ankle. Paper planes have a ton of cool symbolic meanings, but they're also just something that immediately remind me of my childhood.
While I save for this tattoo, I figured I'd look up all the different things this tattoo could mean. Then I remembered a song. It was a Modest Mouse song I'd stumbled upon a very long time ago while I was browsing through their work and for the life of me, I couldn't remember the name. For some reason I thought that the song contained the words 'paper planes', but when I eventually found it I realised that he was actually singing 'a paper plate'.
That's a pretty big difference and not just physically. The song is called Trailer Trash off of their album The Lonesome Crowded West and quite possibly the worst thing to listen to when you're feeling down on yourself.
It was pretty hard for me to figure out why I liked this song so much and I why I wanted it to add some kind of extra meaning to my tattoo. Maybe because I'm a little pretentious that way, but it ultimately won't contribute anything to my tattoo. It will just be a song; A song by a band I love very much and whose music means a lot to me. Heck, their songs Float On and Dashboard helped me through a rough patch in high school. This is the only way in which the paper plate song will mean anything to me and that's perfectly fine.
I don't need anything else to validate my tattoo or my choices, because the meaning I gave it myself is already enough.
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