Tattoo culture in 2012.

I am not too young for a tattoo. I was recently telling, let's say, an older person about the first tattoo I'll be getting soon and all they could say was how much I'm going to regret it. Firstly.
Do you know me? No. Ask yourself if they know you. They don't. But that's fine with me because a lot of people don't know me or YOU. They don't know anything or everything you have encountered upon the past years of your life, do they? No. I have watched the saddest of movies occur merely in front of my own eyes, in my own reality. There hasn't been a jail worse than the one I had put myself in. There is so much inside of me waiting to burst out and escape. And this doesn't just apply to me- we all have our stories don't we? This applies to you too. I want to show you what I love, my inspirations and my complete story and all the rest of me as a whole through pretty pictures etched on my skin. If someone has the ability to take everything I have on the inside and draw it on the outside of me, I would be more than fucking glad. If tattoos isn't your thing, then simply don't get them. But for the people who think it is OKAY to judge somebody based on the ink on their skin, then you have to reconsider your current morals and what you stand for.
To have all of me right here, right now. For anybody to look at me and you and see us for everything we stand for, for everything that shaped us into the fantastic people we are today or for anything we've been through. For you to look at me and see all of me. For me to look at you and see all of you. Nothing to hide, stripped from your skin and on display for the world to see.
To express all of that on my skin is to have it embellished on me for as long as I live. To look at myself in the mirror and see everything I am and smile with pride. It would be one of the most incredible things I could ever do for myself whether or not I am fifty or eighteen- so why not? 

I have witnessed way too many times people shaming and putting down females with sleeves, half sleeves etc. Really, it's none of anybody elses business what others choose to put on their skin since it is their body and nobody elses. I quote Junior many years ago... "My body, my choice." Like it or not, we do not actually live in a male dominant society anymore and I'd like to think we've moved way past judging individuals based on their aesthetic decisions. You'd think we've had gender equality all figured out by now- but unfortunately, the world doesn't work that way.