okay fine i wont get a tatoo at all.
mods can lock this if you want
T_REX305
Hell, I'm not even saying not to get a tattoo. I don't think there's anything wrong with tattoos, and I love looking at other peoples' tattoos and thinking, "wow, this is pretty badass".
But tattooing has just become sort of "cool". As in, not in a "this defines me forever and I choose to bind myself to this idea/etc", but more in a "tattoos are cool, so let me think of something that I like that I can turn into a tattoo design".
Tattoos define who you are. Actually, that's not fair. Plenty of people have tattoos that don'tr define them at all, and that's the problem. If you have a butterfly tattoo behind your ear, or a "tramp stamp" on your lower back, or a barb wire tattoo around your arm, or ANY tattoo of a skull, then you probably shouldn't have gotten the ****ing tattoo.
Get tattoos that define you as a person now, and as you will always be. Do NOT brand yourself with images that define you in the context of your friend, your wife/girlfriend, or pop-culture.
Tattoos are cool as hell, but they are also SERIOUS as hell. And there's not a chance in hell I could ever seeing branding myself with an image which will forever define me as being tied to my girlfriend (or best friend in grade school).
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