Post by OldSamVimes on Dec 14, 2017 8:16:33 GMT
I believe that every single person should get a tattoo at some point in their life.
IMO getting tattooed is a fundamental human experience, like having sex or taking a large dose of psychedelic mushrooms. If you don't do it before you die, then you have missed out on an interesting part of life.
If you take your body seriously, you will suffer.
When you get a tattoo, it forces you to mentally recalibrate your mental image of yourself much more quickly than you have to for normal body changes associated with aging.
Your skin is broken. You feel endorphins. You are connected to your ancestors who did similar things thousands and thousands of years ago.
You remember that day like you remember your wedding day, it becomes a milestone.
In a strange way, the tattoo is more a part of you than your body. Your cells all change and all the biological material that makes up the body changes, like the water in a whirlpool, but the tattoo design remains. Interesting how everything the ink rests on can be replaced, how we are physically replaced without realizing it.
Also, as I get tattoos that are more visible to strangers it helps me to quickly identify judgemental rigid-minded people. Nothing makes me laugh more than seeing an uptight person look at me with an obvious expression of negative judgement.
Anyway.. thought I'd meditate on tattoos for a bit.
IMO getting tattooed is a fundamental human experience, like having sex or taking a large dose of psychedelic mushrooms. If you don't do it before you die, then you have missed out on an interesting part of life.
If you take your body seriously, you will suffer.
When you get a tattoo, it forces you to mentally recalibrate your mental image of yourself much more quickly than you have to for normal body changes associated with aging.
Your skin is broken. You feel endorphins. You are connected to your ancestors who did similar things thousands and thousands of years ago.
You remember that day like you remember your wedding day, it becomes a milestone.
In a strange way, the tattoo is more a part of you than your body. Your cells all change and all the biological material that makes up the body changes, like the water in a whirlpool, but the tattoo design remains. Interesting how everything the ink rests on can be replaced, how we are physically replaced without realizing it.
Also, as I get tattoos that are more visible to strangers it helps me to quickly identify judgemental rigid-minded people. Nothing makes me laugh more than seeing an uptight person look at me with an obvious expression of negative judgement.
Anyway.. thought I'd meditate on tattoos for a bit.