Hello I’m 19 and in the Navy. I have been thinking about getting a tattoo for about 5 months now and I been trying to find something
but nothing has really jumped out at me. I had been training to become a rescue swimmer for about two years before the navy.
It was my dream, and the day my mentor called me saying I had been selected from the top 5% in the nation was possibly the greatest feeling
of Accomplishment I had ever had. I went to rescue swimmer school and made it through 3 weeks of the 5 week course when I tore my
rotatory cuff in my left shoulder. I was disqualified from the program and medically dropped from the school house. My should is getting better
but it feels like I have a knife stuck in it.

Im not posting my story for pity I just want yall to have a better idea of what im asking for

I want a tattoo that shows my struggle and reminds me that I didn’t quit.
I had been previously been thinking about a knife sticking out with a ribbon tied on saying “Bent but not Broken”

If yall could throw out some ideas I would be more that grateful.