Why can’t I have a tattoo?
It’s a fair question, isn’t it?
I remember how angry my parents were when they saw my first tattoo. My father almost had a heart attack!
I don’t get it. What’s so wrong with having a tattoo? Did I kill someone? It is absurd! They keep telling me I should “calm down” and find a girlfriend, even marry her, having a baby.
My God. I don’t want a baby, I want a tattoo: is it that complicated?
Yes, I admit a tattoo is a permanent thing, but so is a child! Most parents don’t get it! They think tattoos are a symbol of damnation or something like that…
I told my father once: “Dad, if I have this dragon on my shoulder, doesn’t mean I will burn in hell! I tried to explain them that I was born in the year of the dragon (in Chinese horoscope) and that this symbol really represents me. He didn’t understand.
My mother, on the other hand, was more open-minded (she adores astrology) and told me I was right! A tattoo is not the end of the world. Not at all! It’s more like a new beginning. I have so many new friends now; I’m not a couch-potato anymore. I even go out with my friends and I have real fun.
And you know what? I met this wonderful girl, Tina, she’s my first girlfriend. I think she loves me (even if I’m fat and ugly) and she likes my tattoo, she has plenty of them, all over her body. Tina told me she had the same problems with her parents that I had.Only she told them from the start: “And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you’ve got … a tattoo?”.