...yes I agree it's been an interesting discussion!

tattoos sure have become a sensation...very 'fashionable'...

it's as if us humans are accumulating individual meaningful intensity at such an alarming rate!... this world this life our very own experiences!... we are running out of ways to express ourselves with anything permanent!...and the body the final sacred identity island can now be breached abundantly with perfect personal ceremony and finally and universally...without judgement!

...immediately following a new tattoo is a rebirth a transcendence!
accompanied by the unmistakable assault of shiny coloured skin and the process of pain and then the nurture of the painted body part...to keep 'it' alive!....

and of course as with memories the pictures fade and yet they remain defiant against all...

I'm kinda glad I have these things on my body to remind me of myself at the time....and yes mine are a bit scattered around...but so am I!

...I regret nothing I ever did to myself...and some tattoos are designed as an external expression...where others might say.."hey I love that!"
...alternatively my tattoos are scattered around as I am! ...8 randomly inked spaces in 8 randomly thinked places!... and just like the other scars I have on my body...the scars that were deliberate and represent emotion...and likewise just as impulsive!...so too my tattoos are like scars to me....they are not for others they are for me and only me

it's weird I got this love heart on my forearm and when I move my arm the heart looks like it's beating...just an accident....and the dialogue is the other thing...I have the words "pain, pleasure, fear and happy" written on me in variously accidently predetermined spots, accompanied by meaningfully considered images...carefully choreographed during extreme but controlled innebriation...(amusing!)
I don't know if I will get anymore...think I have enough...
but one things' for sure...if the tattoos I have were gone?...I would be lost.
I am so used to them...and at the same time I don't hardly notice they are there...just like the rest of my deliberate scars