I have tattoos.: Jewelry-maker, crafter, blogger, married 23 years

Friday, July 27, 2012

Jewelry-maker, crafter, blogger, married 23 years

My friend sent your blog. I would like to be a part of educating others that I am "not a bad person" just because I have ink on my body.

My husband's mom and my mom both died this year, February and March. They were both unmarried, lived alone in their own mobile homes, one in California, one in Las Vegas. They chose to just sit alone and do nothing with their lives, just sit and watch TV or sit on the computer, only going out to get groceries. Both were overweight, one obese. They could have done so much more with their lives.

My tattoo says "Get busy living, or get busy dying." It is a powerful statement, and I want to see it everyday to remind me to live life to the fullest. I could think of no better way then a tattoo. I have always been artisitic and creative. Tattooing is the best way to display your favorite artwork and it will be with you forever!

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I have tattoos.

The most recent research shows 40 percent of Americans between 26 and 40 have at least one tattoo. That's nearly half of us. Furthermore, 36 percent of people between 18 and 25 do. Normal people. Successful people. Smart people. Truly, anyone.

Yet outdated stigmas and discrimination still exists, based solely on some people's unfounded misconceptions about the way a tattooed person looks -- completely disregarding the statistics, individual characters and the stories behind the tattoos.

Yes, tattoos are a choice. So is practicing a narrow perspective.

Perhaps the increase in tattoos amplifies some people's already prevailing prejudgments about people who look different than them. It's so much easier to write off a person based on something you, on the surface level, do not understand than it is to actually consider what lies underneath, below the skin.

This website was created after I witnessed an incident of discrimination against the "tattoo demographic," as a whole. This website is intended to help educate and dispel myths that you can even begin to classify people with tattoos in one "demographic," much less as all trouble-makers, all out for attention or in any way worth diminishing based on assumptions; no one deserves that.

Ultimately, this website is not even about tattoos, but it is about the real stories behind each person's surface. This website is not intended to convince anyone that they should get a tattoo, or that they should even like tattoos if they don't choose to get one themselves.

After all, as the saying goes, the only difference between people with tattoos and people without tattoos is that people with tattoos don't care whether or not other people have tattoos.