Besides if you are type of person that uses the phrases such as “be open minded” and “that’s old kind of thinking” -those are also deceiving phrases and they’re fallacious. Not because it is 2010, one should just drop their values: some things should always be held sacred and true until the end of time! because if you don’t believe in something and stand for it, then you might as well fall for anything!

So it is my opinion to say, that if you have learned to respect the temple of your soul and spirit, and have accepted that you body belongs to your creator and it is not really yours because you did not create a single hair in it, then in turn you will also have learned to respect your human body.

I had my first tattoo done about 6 weeks ago (aged 18 and 3 months). Its a fully blossomed rose with two growing rosebuds either side with my Grans initials underneath. Some people may say that memorial tattoos are tacky or you can pay your respects in many other ways than a tattoo and i accept that but this is something i wanted to do, for myself, not for anybody else. When i was 4 years old i lived with my Gran and Grandad for 6 months, only seeing my parents intermitently, and at that age there needs to be somebody to teach you values, right from wrong and, in essence, how to be a decent human being and my Gran was the person that instilled morals, faith and love into me, and the most painful of all was to never break a promise to anybody. I was closer to her at that age (and continued to be up until she died) than most members of my family. We would sit together for hours, just talking or looking out into the garden in silence, with the occasional coment about how beautiful the roses were.

On my 17th birthday she had a stoke and died two days later. I never got to see her on my birthday but i saw her the day before and the last words i said to her were “I’ll see you later”. I never got to do that and it ripped me apart, especially as that was me breaking a promise to her, one of the most important people in my life.

If i want to get a permanent reminder about how much of ana amazing person she was and how much i owe her for making me the person i am then who are you to deny me that or call me stupid for it?

The only difference between a person with tattoos, and a person without is this. The person with tattoos does not care if you do not have any. We dont care and we wont shout it about. All I ask is that people dont judge me because of something deeply personal. I didnt get it done on impulse, i spent a year and a quarter designing, thinking, printing and looking at the tattoo i was going to get. If that to you is a stupid thing then that is up to you. Just dont insult me for it.