Do you have a tattoo? If so,
what’s the story behind your ink? If you don’t have a tattoo, what might you
consider getting emblazoned on you skin?
No, I do not have a tattoo, but I do have a couple of stories about
getting ink. When one of my high school
friends turned 18 and wanted to get a tattoo, I went with her for support. The idea of getting a tattoo is fascinating
to me, and I can’t say I haven’t considered it before, but I have never been
able to decide definitively where and what I would have emblazoned on my skin
for the rest of my life. So, at 18, I
merely lived vicariously through another’s first tattoo experience.
Several years later, on my way back to the states for a vacation while
residing on Kwaj, we stopped in Hawaii for a couple of days, and I caught a bus
with another friend (another resident of Kwaj, traveling through Hawaii at the same
time) to China town in Honolulu and supported her while she got a tattoo,
although it was not her first like my high school friend. Again, I was curious and happy to be there
for her as neither of us knew the area, and I didn’t think she should go alone,
just in case.
That’s the extent of my experience with tattoos thus far, and I still
don’t know what I would consider getting emblazoned on my skin. I am still just
as curious about it as I ever was, and I often admire other’s tattoos, it’s just
not enough to cause me to take the leap and actually get a tattoo for
myself. I’m not sure why….just never
felt inspired to do it. Who knows when or where that inspiration may hit,
if it ever does. If it does, I should
have quite a story to share about how I finally came to decide upon and get my
tattoo.
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