There's this strange elitist mentality that if you're afraid of the pain then you shouldn't get a tattoo. It gets even more annoying when people claim that having bits of metal jabbed over and over into your skin doesn't hurt or that people who think it does hurt are p***ies.
I have tattoos going across my spine and on both feet (one of which took 3 hours, tvym). I have others, too, but those three hurt like hell. I knew they would, was willing to put myself through that, but was still scared of the pain.
It's a natural human response. It's a very healthy human response. Pain hurts because it's one of the ways our bodies protect themselves.
Not even to mention the fact that people feel pain in entirely different degrees.
So why do so many people seem to be such a$$e$ when it comes to telling others they are wimps if they're concerned about pain? Why do they have to be all condescending and say that if people are afraid of pain then they aren't ready for tattoos?
2007-06-13
19:43:36
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