Weight Tattoo Meaning
Ballast, burden, release, and the weight dropped to rise.
The Weight is the heavy thing we carry — the load that burdens and the ballast that steadies, the mass that can hold us down or hold us steady, and the burden we may drop to rise. To carry the Weight is to carry ballast, burden, release, and the weight dropped to rise — the load borne on the shoulders, the steadying mass that grounds us, and the heavy thing we let go of when it is time to lift and rise.
The Weight is the burden we bear — the heavy load carried on the shoulders, pressing down, demanding strength to lift and endurance to carry. We speak of the weight on our shoulders, of carrying a heavy burden, of the load we bear: the responsibilities, sorrows, and duties that press upon us with real weight. The weight is felt as a burden — something heavy that we must carry, that wearies us, that takes strength to bear.
This makes the weight the emblem of the burden borne — the heavy load carried through life. It carries the meaning of all that presses on us: the responsibilities we shoulder, the sorrows we carry, the heavy things we must bear. There is honor in bearing a weight — the strength of those who carry their burdens, who shoulder the load and endure. And there is also the longing for relief, for the weight to be lifted. To carry the weight is to carry this — the burden borne, the heavy load shouldered and carried. The weight is the burden carried — the heavy load borne on the shoulders, pressing down and demanding strength to bear. The universal weight is the burden carried — the burden we bear, the heavy load carried on the shoulders, pressing down, demanding strength to lift and endurance to carry; we speak of the weight on our shoulders, of carrying a heavy burden, of the load we bear (the responsibilities, sorrows, and duties that press upon us with real weight), the weight felt as a burden (something heavy we must carry, that wearies us, that takes strength to bear) — the emblem of the burden borne, the heavy load carried through life, all that presses on us (the responsibilities we shoulder, the sorrows we carry, the heavy things we must bear), honor in bearing a weight (the strength of those who carry their burdens, who shoulder the load and endure) and also the longing for relief, for the weight to be lifted.
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