I don't have any tattoos or piercings but I have thought about them. I think that a significant portion of why I haven't gotten one is because I want to be certain that it would be something I would be happy with. I will most likely get one eventually once I have decided what, where and why I want the specific tattoo or piercing. For example: say I got a tattoo of a hawk on my shoulder, I wouldn't want to wake up the next day wishing I had gotten a dragon tattoo on my back instead. The same sort of restraint applies to piercings: do I want to get one ear pierced (possibly multiple times as I like the earrings in "Deep Space 9" that the Bajorans wear), or do I want to go with a friend's suggestion that I get my eyebrow pierced. There is also the thought that I might not one at all or would be happier without one.
If I did get a tattoo or a piercing I certainly wouldn't attach existential meaning to it, that is not to say that it would have no meaning. I would get a piercing for aesthetic purposes or possibly just to try it but I would want a tattoo to have at least some significance. Going off of the ones I mention in my earlier example (a hawk or a dragon): I would want a Merlin Hawk because that is the species of bird I am named after (for those of you who have read "The Lost Years of Merlin" by T.A. Baron, Trouble is one of my favorite characters). I would want a dragon because it is my favorite kind of mythological creature (the book reference to this one comes out of "The Dragonback Adventures" series by Timothy Zahn, specifically book #2, "Dragon and Soldier"). Those are just examples because the possiblities are seemingly infinite so I want to be sure that I won't regret any that I choose to get.
If I did get a tattoo or a piercing I certainly wouldn't attach existential meaning to it, that is not to say that it would have no meaning. I would get a piercing for aesthetic purposes or possibly just to try it but I would want a tattoo to have at least some significance. Going off of the ones I mention in my earlier example (a hawk or a dragon): I would want a Merlin Hawk because that is the species of bird I am named after (for those of you who have read "The Lost Years of Merlin" by T.A. Baron, Trouble is one of my favorite characters). I would want a dragon because it is my favorite kind of mythological creature (the book reference to this one comes out of "The Dragonback Adventures" series by Timothy Zahn, specifically book #2, "Dragon and Soldier"). Those are just examples because the possiblities are seemingly infinite so I want to be sure that I won't regret any that I choose to get.
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