My Sparrow to Guide Me Home: My New Tattoo

I'm so in love with my new tattoo. I'm so happy to be done with that period of my life. i love that when I look down at my skin I don't see scars. I love that I see a beautiful piece of art work. I love that I got it with my dad. I don't have a lot of great memories with him, but this was. I'm so happy to be done with self harm after over 3 years. When you look really closely you can still see the indentations in my skin, but it's nothing compared to what used to be there and I'm so grateful for that. I'm in love with my tattoo. I'm a new person. A sparrow tattoo is associated with freedom, undying love, loyalty, sacrifice and bonding. For me the sparrow represents freedom from who I once was. September was such a dark time for me. I was yanked out of my delusions. i couldn't deal with the reality I was given and that was hard, but that was when I started to change for the better. I'm free from who I was almost a year ago. I'm learning to love myself, to have an undying love for myself and to be loyal to the promise of never taking a blade to my skin again. It's been over 4 months and I've made a promise to never do it again. And my sparrow is there to  help and guide me. I love it so much. I can't even begin to explain to you.