To most, my new business card is simply a coy marketing slogan to make sure everyone who meets me will remember me. Though that is partly true I also wanted to share the story and the inspiration behind this saying and what it really means to me personally and how this saying even came into my life.
Recently, I have been finding so much beauty and life in nature. This is truly “getting older” talk but I mean it. I feel like so many answers in life… from the spiritual all the way to the practical, can be found in observing how the natural world around us works. I mean, if you think about it, everything that is unnatural is created ultimately from something natural that has always existed. Maybe the answers are not found in the applications but right outside our windows.
Lately, I have been trying to practice being still outside, allowing who I believe to be God, the Universe, or whatever you want to call it, speak to my soul and guide me. In my life right now I feel so connected to God in a new way, a deeper way… taking off all the limitations of what that relationship needs to look like, being open and listening.
The slogan, “Always Remember Me, Ok?” was something I had heard in a prayer as I was sitting alongside the Chattahoochee one afternoon a few weeks ago. I was praying because I was feeling overwhelmed by all the new things in my life. Tattooing, Peters Street Station, just living in Atlanta in general, faster lifestyle, different culture… everything. I had always wondered if I would ever lose myself in the pursuit of my dreams and success. On the day I heard this saying, I was wondering if I was slipping down the very path I promised myself I never would go down, if I was being consumed by the offerings of being an emerging artist in Atlanta.
I prayed and asked the course I needed to take in this time and my life… and the answer I heard was this simple request. “always remember me, ok?” And in that moment, I knew that I Was hearing. I felt like this was a pivotal moment for me personally, where I Was able to have some peace in knowing that everything was going to be okay if I just always kept the main thing about the main thing. It was a reminder to always remember why I started anything I’m involved in now… for the love and nothing else.
so, if you get a card from me and you see this slogan anywhere, it’s me always reminding myself to stay right here.
peace, AB