If you have social anxiety you know that feeling very well: as soon as you leave your safe place, it feels like everybody is staring at you, and you just want to hide from the world. This sentence comes from one of my favourite books, “We Have Always Lived in the Castle”, where the protagonist, after going through a tragedy, can never leave the house without feeling observed and judged by people. This refers to my social anxiety: once again, you know I struggle with it, and it used to be really really bad. On her blog she explained:īut this topic brings me to the next tattoo: “La casa sulla luna”, which translated is “The house on the moon”. The house on the the moon is a metaphor for a feeling of safety. It’s a phrase from the book We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson, which has helped Marzia to deal with her social anxiety. The writing, which says “La casa sulla luna” in her native language Italian, means “The house on the moon” in English. Marzia got this tattoo on her left forearm in September 2015.
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