/lit/ - Literature

>>5160546
Not only that, but it is hard for someone with a tattoo to admit that their tattoo is actually stupid, especially to themselves. So instead of doing so, they stay juvenile and pretentious because they would even worse about outgrowing a tattoo

That's why I will never get one. I fear defining myself like that because I know I always change, and inking something to my body might make me unconsciously guilty about changing and growing up.
Like, once you tell someone you enjoy something--do you ever feel the need to keep up that interest, even years after you have kind of outgrown that thing? If you never mentioned it to another person and defined yourself that way you wouldn't give a shit. I feel like a tattoo would hold me back.

I will leave my body unmarked so it can comfortably house whatever person happens to be inside of it, whether that is the person of today 40 years in the future. I will allow myself to be a changing, malleable human; each new day a new life, new me.