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Originally posted by shakalaka
I am curious; some of you guys that get sleeves or other large tattoos, do they have some meaning to you guys and represent something or are they simply the designs/styles that you like and look cool? Some of the tattoo's posted in here are freaking awesome to look at but I always wonder if there is any deep meaning behind them.
I have been wanting to get either a 1/2 or 3/4 sleeve for a while now, but I just can't seem to think of anything that is meaningful enough to me to actually do it. Yea, I can find 1000's of cool looking designs but I don't see myself getting something just cause it looks cool to me.
My opinion? Everybody thinking tattoos need to have some mystical, deep personal meaning is destroying tattooing. Don't get me wrong in that I don't think they can't have personal meaning to the owner, but really tattoos absolutely don't have to have some giant back story to be special and memorable. For me that is really the best part about tattoos. I have more than a few tattoos that I would not necessarily get again today if I was starting over, but that doesn't mean I have any regrets about getting them. For every single tattoo I have, I can remember exactly where I was in life when I got it and what was going on around me. I doesn't matter if it was a portrait of my parents or the pig in a top hat. Every tattoo is a marker in time and really that is the only thing that really matters to me.