Clever girl!

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My first ever tattoo, and it is of the Swahili symbol for “Hakuna Matata” which also means “No Worries”. People always assume it is of a treble clef, but they would be sadly mistaken. I love this tattoo because no only does it express a certain attribute of myself I would like to improve on (too worrisome), but it also is a way of expressing my love for The Lion King. Growing up, I believed I was a real lion, and my zodiac symbol being a leo, didn’t help my case at all. I would definitely say though, my spirit animal is a lion. This tattoo was done by a friend of a friend of mine in Battleground, Washington. His name is James Atchley, and he is actually doing more ink on me soon. He rocks by the way!

Sorry I’m going to have a mini rant about this tattoo because people should do more research before they put something permanently on their bodies. There is no Swahili symbol for Hakuna Matata, in fact I’m fairly certain there are no Swahili symbols for anything, as their language is written with the same letters that we use. The symbol is I guess probably Sanskrit which could I suppose be found in East Africa because there is a very heavy Arabic influence to that part of the world but it’s certainly not Swahili. 

Rant over

This annoys me too! Swahili is written in the same alphabetic script that we use in English; therefore the symbol for hakuna matata would be the words “hakuna matata”.

It’s probably my rage at the stupidity but that looks like a snake pooing itself to me.

the Swahili symbol for “Hakuna Matata”.
Looooool, sit down with all that nonsense, sunshine. 

oh my god i’m crying. how fucking embarrassing

OOOOOMG.

and that, my friends, is why you use the Google.

I looked it up because I got morbidly curious, and because the symbol looks like no character I’ve ever seen. So basically and unsurprisingly, it is completely made up and first appeared in the Korean film 200 Pounds of Beauty (two characters get it tattoos of it). I actually had to hunt for that bit of info, because it’s drowned out by about ten million images of people who don’t know it’s 100% not real with the “Swahili symbol for Hakuna Matata” tattooed on them.