I'm getting a fig tattoo soon hopefullyy!

it's inspired by the sylvia plath fig tree analogy which I love so much. I know some people argue that it's really not as deep as it's hyped up to be but I feel like it speaks to me so much, especially as a young person deciding what I want to do in the future. imo, not every analogy has to be deeply intricate and complicated to truly express something. sometimes the simpler ones are the most special to me because they're the easiest to hold onto (remember).

here's the excerpt if you're interested:

I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.

        - The fig tree analogy from The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

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I also feel like it connects pretty well to this other writing from Sylvia Plath where she speaks about what she wants in life. here's the excerpt:

I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.

• The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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I feel like those two pieces connect well to each other, especially if you view the second excerpt as her inner thoughts on the subject and then the fig tree analogy as the sort of mental conclusion she came to that explained or maybe even calmed the feeling she expressed in her journal.

do you have any cool tattoo ideas?