I hear this sentiment a lot (mostly from folks without tattoos), but not every tattoo needs to have some deep lifelong meaning that will never change. My tattoo is relatively meaningless and whimsical, which actually has sort of become its meaning in a way.

There's a picture of it in this piece I wrote about my tattoo artist: https://medium.com/@jacobevelyn/communications-ink-773642f6f...

And some examples of the "whimsical" side of it on this website I made: http://www.thattat.com/#13