Personal Narrative: My Gone Fishing Tattoos

One tattoo I designed with care honors my grandfather who passed away when I was in the fifth grade. It was for him, and since I can’t always go to his grave very often, this is my small token to him. It says “Gone fishing” with a red, and white fishing bobber on the first G that has my grandpa’s birthdate, and date of death on it; then on the last g has a fishing hook. The I’s are dotted with flowers lastly a heart connecting the gone to the fishing. It is between my shoulder blades and doesn’t reach my neck. The reason it is on my back is so I don’t have to see it and get sad. Michello Delio a tattoo artist said “When the designs are chosen with care, tattoos have a power and magic all their own. They decorate the body but they also enhance the soul.” He was my favorite person and I got a tattoo just for him. My gone fishing tattoo keeps my grandpa, whom I love dearly, close to me.
I pick the saying gone fishing because we would always went fishing together when he was still alive, and the last thing he said to me was I will take you fishing next week. He was the one that got me in to the outdoors like fishing, camping, and walking in the woods. We would go camping at his brothers Dan’s land, we would camp in tents, go fishing in the handmade pond that Dan made, and we would go walking in the woods to go looking for worms …show more content…
However, this tattoo I can always have with me to remind me of him. This tattoo holds the most magic one can have in this world. My tattoo is to show the love I had for my grandpa who was always there for me but can’t be anymore. With everything he did for me he taught me to treat everyone the same, to worm a hook, what plants to stay away from, and how to find north from moss so I could get back to camp when I was in the wood. Just having this tattoo on me makes me feel he is closer to me and that he is still with me watching over