My signature is many things........
many peices put together, but most of all, those peices have tremendous meaning for me.
First, the image.
I doubt many people know what that is, or "who" those people are. I won't get into it, but....
it is a reprsentation of....... an ideal I have, a dream, so to say. Those two "people" in there, well...... it just has meaning to me. There are 3 images, the yellow, the blue/green, and the purpel. They are all identical except for color, and how the picture is framed. That's not really important. I choose the design because I wanted maximum picture space, but still being able to fit in
"Day by day, we get better and better, a team that can't be beat, won't be beat"
However, as you can see, that is not what is there. I cut out "won't be beat", because of asthetic and artistic apperance. If I kept it on, that part of the phrase would have been one line below, and it would just look strange, IMO.
However, if you haven't noticed yet
Those words...
"day by day..........." it is a link. CLick on it..............
It is a link to a rather ..... charismatic, emotional, and perhaps motivational sound clip. That saying, "day by day....", and this one " -(NU)- Not the Victory but the Action; Not the Goal but the Game; In the Deed the Glory "
both come from the university of Nebraska. (see my avatar)
The Nebraska Cornhuskers. ('blackshirts' is a reference to their defense).
Both "Day by Day" and "Not the victory but the action..." are phrases, statements, that mean a lot to me, and I respect a lot. They are ideals that I would strive to live by.
And of course, as I have mentioned, i believe, my favorite song is PRIDE (in the name of love). Any reference to that is tremendously meaningfull, and it seemed to fit with everything.
"FOR HONOR" is a reference to the honor that goes into it all, honor being another of my ideals.
Honestly.........
Everything in the sky blue, the "invisible" stuff....... that was not in my original plan...
but what happened was......... every time I did it, the link ("day by day.....") was above the picture, but it would always sink to the top, and slide right up to the automatic bar that you see there. Everone has it, the little solid line that separates the post from the person's signature.
But I wanted a space there
and everytime I manually pressed the "return key", that space, the line break, would not hold, it would always dissapear, and the link and image would slide up to the bar again.
So, I put up all the other stuff, the "invisible stuff" there to fill the space. But I figured "hey, if I'm going to use the space, I might as well put somethign good there".
So, essentially, I used every single pixel in the sig.
the true signature proportions are 350 wide by 120 high. And now, my signature is jam-packed with things that I raelly hold dear, and are important to me, so I'm very proud, and like it a lot. I'm going to keep it around for a long time.
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Lastly.......
the orignal intetion was to combine one of my most truest, most highest ideals, something I believe in more than anything else, something I think is super grand and a huge, maginficent thing........
"Day by day
we get better and better
A team that can't be beat
won't be beat"
Sure, that talks about football..... a football team is it's origin
but really........
I apply that same ideal, same method
to love
I want my love, my dream of love, my goal, my thing that I'm striving for.......... I want it to be that way.
i want to work, every day, and get better, with the one I love.
That is why I chose that image.
Maybe someday...... I will explain what that image means to me, but not now. All anyone needs to know is that I equate it with love.
I like hugs, I think hugs are great. But this hug, this image, or representation of something..... this one is somewhat sacred to me. That is why I wasn't afraid to put all the other things I hold dear next to it - PRIDE, "FOR HONOR", things like that. They all go together, for me.
But the main intention as to have a combination of
"day by day........"
and
"love"
That sort of enduring sense that I particularly adore.
But there are many peices to it all, as you see.........
but
it's one of those great things that
to me
is much, much more
than the sum of it's parts