\nTattoos and body markings can mean all manner of different things to different people. What is celebrated in one part of the world can be viewed as inappropriate somewhere else; a sigil or illustration that has significant meaning in one place might look like random squiggles in another.\n
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I think it\u2019s safe to assume that human beings have been expressing themselves and promoting messages through their appearances for about as long as we\u2019ve been around as a species.\n
Unless you live on a remote island somewhere, you\u2019ll be used to seeing people sporting tattoos. Some might be trivial designs they regret getting when their were young, but others can have deep, impactful connotations, those that tell stories or adhere to customs or traditions\u2026\n
I don\u2019t know about you, but I find it particularly interesting when I see the same tattoo on a number of different people. That is to say I\u2019m instantly intrigued as to what the tattoo in question means, and just why the person in question thought it was so important that they wanted to wear it as a visible marker for the rest of their lives.\n
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One that I\u2019ve seen a good many times over the years \u2013 and, until now, never thought to research, I might add \u2013 is that of the so-called \u2018red string of fate\u2019.\n It\u2019s highly likely that some of our readers will recognize the small, red tattoo, but there\u2019s every chance that its symbolic meaning is not known to many of those who have seen it before.\n As I said, I\u2019d seen the tattoo on a number of people. Enough, certainly, to notice a pattern. This mark had to mean something, I just had no idea what.\n So I did a little digging \u2013 thanks, internet \u2013 and found that the red string tattoo in question is known in Asian cultures as the \u2018red string of fate\u2019. Most commonly appearing on the thumb of a man and the pinky finger of a woman, the tattoo looks like a simple bow with tails, not unlike a tied shoelace.\n It turns out there\u2019s a symbolic meaning behind this small tattoo, and one that has its roots in romance and hope. The story reportedly comes from the Chinese tale of a matchmaker who knows the person each of us is fated to be together with.\n Of course, the idea of being destined or fated to meet someone else isn\u2019t reserved exclusively for romantic endeavors, just as the concept of being connected to someone else via an invisible bond isn\u2019t confined to just one culture, but rather present in virtually all.\n In this instance, the red string of fate implies that two people are destined lovers, irrespective of place, time, or circumstances. For some, that\u2019s a warming, comforting thought. Others, however, would surely prefer to be wholly in charge of their own destiny.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tattoos and body markings can mean all manner of different things to different people. What is celebrated in one part of the world can be viewed as inappropriate somewhere else; a sigil or illustration that has significant meaning in one place might look like random squiggles in another. I think it\u2019s safe to assume that\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[410,670],"tags":[742,693],"class_list":{"0":"post-80410","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-life-hacks","8":"category-news","9":"tag-hometips-lifehacks","10":"tag-news"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lorevista.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/448606580_868624125296618_5898130488340813039_n-545x551-1.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorevista.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorevista.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorevista.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorevista.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorevista.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lorevista.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorevista.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorevista.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorevista.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorevista.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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