I have tattoos.: Mother of three girls, business owner, married to the love of her life

Thursday, July 26, 2012

Mother of three girls, business owner, married to the love of her life

I am 33 years old and have been married for 12 years, to the love of my life. We have three beautiful girls whom I adore more than anything and love to spend time with. I started my own business, Neat Freaks Cleaning, six years ago and I am currently in school as a business major. In my free time I enjoy spending time with my family, laughing, reading, camping and traveling.

I am so fortunate to have so many blessings in my life, but I have also had to endure severe heartache. Losing my son Joshua when I was 20 weeks pregnant and finding out that my father had Lymphoma opened my eyes to just how fragile and short life can be.

I have two tattoos. My most recent, a cherry blossom branch that wraps my shoulder, helps remind me to celebrate the gift of life and cherish every single day, as if it were your last.

1 comment:

AnonymousJanuary 4, 2015 at 5:28 AM
Nowadays, we search and research everything online. We got used to using the web and it is not normal for us to do something before checking it out online. When you want to go to a concert, when you want to see a movie or to visit an art shop, you are looking it on the internet first. Business owner... The video guys did great job but you definitely deserve all the credit
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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Yet outdated stigmas and discrimination still exists, based solely on some people's unfounded misconceptions about the way a tattooed person looks -- completely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.