If days get dark, it is a visual reminder I’ve been there before and I made it through. I feel like I’ve made a statement to myself. All linked up with a squiggly line.ĭespite it being very early days (I’ve had a tattoo for five hours so far and it is in fact, still wrapped in cling wrap), I am extremely happy. So I have the text and semicolon across my wrist with the recovery symbol on the back. And that is honorable.Then when playing around on Pinterest, I discovered an eating disorder recovery symbol and I wanted that too. It is through these intimate conversations that we can reach out beyond what any nonprofit organization or media campaign could ever do. Answering the question “What does your tattoo mean?” is one way to do it, one person at a time. Raising awareness about mental illness is difficult. Anything to increase dialogue about mental health is respectable - and empathetic. There are so many bad tattoos out there, but this one, a semicolon, is not only clever but a profoundly significant conversation starter. And now they have a tattoo that is a badge of honor for surviving. These people could’ve committed suicide but didn’t. As we become stronger people, we become happier in life.” By learning the difference from looking back at the last page with regret, and learning from the previous chapter, we become stronger people. “Despite the challenges we may face, and though we will all struggle with writers block at various points in our lives, only we can choose to pick up the pen and write the next page. I’m done missing out on the beauty of life.”įrom Tyrone Newsom: “Each life is an open book, and each individual is their own author, with different styles of writing, different handwriting, and a different shade of ink,” he says, telling his story on the site. I push through, for my beautiful daughters, and for my close friends. “What I have will never really go away,” she says on the site.
There is nothing more amazing than reading those stories.” The best feedback I would have to say is the stories where people are choosing to continue their stories. “There are so many stories that are continuing. “The positivity it is creating is amazing,” Bleul said. Check out some of the best interpretations:īleul estimates that possibly one million people worldwide have the tattoo, according to an interview with ABC News. Photos of the tattoos are popping up all over Instragram. I wanted to start a conversation that can’t be stopped, a conversation about mental illness and suicide so we can address it and lower those rates.”Īnd start a conversation she did.
“I wanted to tell my story to inspire others to tell their story. “I started to honor my father,” Bleuel told USA Today, “and to tell my story of my struggle with mental illness.” Bleuel’s dad committed suicide in 2003. “Project Semicolon is a faith-based non-profit movement dedicated to presenting hope and love to those who are struggling with depression, suicide, addiction, and self-injury. Project Semicolon exists to encourage, love, and inspire.”Īmy Bleuel is the founder of the project and has been diagnosed with depression and anxiety. Here’s the Project Semicolon mission statement: What if you could symbolically put an end to that past? That’s what Project Semicolon is all about. In regards to the tattoos, the site continues: “The author is you and the sentence is your life.”Īlmost everyone has a dark past of some kind, especially those of us with bipolar or other psychiatric illnesses. “A semicolon is used when an author could’ve chosen to end their sentence but chose not to,” the project’s site says. In grammar, a semicolon is used to link two sentences together. These tattoos are part of a movement called Project Semicolon. I’m referring to something like a semicolon tattoo, which holds a deeper meaning than grammatical prowess. I’m not talking about a fraternity insignia or butterfly tattoo. The best tattoos are ones with hidden meanings, something that is thinly veiled but important to the person. Amy Bleuel – founder of The Semicolon Project
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