
I'm thinking of getting this as my next tattoo to commemorate my time at college in the states. It symbolizes the friendships that I made quickly and how they will continue to grow over the rest of my life. I miss my friends there so much, and there is a bit of a story behind the cicada.
On induction day I was put into a group with other freshmen, and some other students who were more senior in ranking. One of them, called Tovah picked up on the fact that I was a bit lonely and on the way to another part of the school we found a dead cicada on the ground. We picked it up and called it Harold, and he was our little way of talking to each other. We'd put him in each others mailboxes and write little notes from him to each other. One day though, he went missing, never to return to our mailboxes, but he is still in our hearts. If only as a special memory of those tough couple of first days at school.
I really do think that I'll get a tattoo of a cicada just for that memory, as it's very precious to me.
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