I had never felt I would want to get a tattoo because I could never imagine wanting something that permanent on me.
But when I first saw meaning of the semicolon tattoo, I did seriously consider getting one: I am proud of beating a terrible, deadly disease. It is not my identity by any means, but it is something that I have surmounted. It has changed me.

I then learned it was linked to a religion, and that ruled it out completely. Their reasoning that faith helps, regardless of the type of faith, had zero resonance for me.