Symbolism.

"Yesterday, you said tomorrow." - NIKE

I have this necklace I wear, it's a gun, more accurate to say a Smith and Wesson revolver probably but whatever. It's no longer than my thumb in length and copper in colour, well it was - it's faded now to a charcoal grey. It's not on its original chain nor its original adjoining clip. I bought it in June 2012, 3 for £10 in Camden Market, London with my sister. I wear it every single day. Not because I want to seem bad ass with a gun around my neck and not because it's anything spectacular - not for any kind of superficial reason at all. I wear it because of what it means to me. To me, it's a symbol of life and death. It's there to remind me every day that today could be my last day, that I shouldn't have regrets and I should always do what I want to - what makes me happy. It's there to remind me I should always say what it is I need to say, for it I were to die and I left something unsaid a certain person would never know what it was I wanted to tell them. That I should tell those I love every day that I love them so they wouldn't have to doubt that when I'm gone. it's Carpe Diem, it's YOLO, really because they are both true - seize the day because you really do only live once.

"Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss" - F. Scott Fitzgerald.

 and that's true also. Once we're gone, people will talk about the things we did, and the things we couldn't done but we didn't. So this gun reminds me every day to live a life I would want people to talk about. People are fighting wars so that I can stay alive, I want to live a life worth someone risking their own life for.

"I want to taste and glory in each day and never be afraid to experience pain." - Sylvia Plath.