Love Quote #6920450
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I really hate that everyone in my family (extended included)

I really hate that everyone in my family (extended included) and a lot of my
friends think I'm on the road to messing up, just because of my piercings and
desire for tattoos.
I currently have six piercings, two on each ear lobe, a helix (cartilage) on my right ear and a conch on my left ear. I want to pierce my forward helix on my left ear also.
They say it's bad and I have enough, and it'll lead to tattoos. They're wrong.
I do want tattoos, but not just any tattoos and not a ton of them. I want two small tattoos, that mean a lot to me. I know they'll mean a lot to me in the future too, they'll never lose their meaning. Even if they possibly could, I'd rather have a tattoo from something that meant a lot to me in my teenage years, than something random. It shows something I was once passionate about. However, these tattoos will always hold a meaning.
The first one is a semicolon in typewriter font. A lot of you might be thinking, "What could that possibly mean?" Let me tell you, a semicolon is a place where the author could've chosen to end the sentence, but didn't. To me, that goes hand in hand with supporting the fight against suicide. You could choose to end your life, but think about why you haven't. The author didn't end the sentence or story there, so you shouldn't end yours either.
The second, is a butterfly in white ink on the inside of my wrist. A lot of my friends don't think I should do it, because white ink tattoos often look like scars. That's another reason I want it in white ink. It's my permanent support of the Butterfly Project. For those of you that don't know what that is, it shows support for those struggling with self-harm. There's one day a year where everyone who is there for those people struggling with self-harm, draws a butterfly on the inside of their wrist. I personally don't think this should just be a one day thing. So to show my permanent support, I want to tattoo a butterfly as if it was drawn on for the butterfly project. White ink does often look like scars, that's another reason to do it, it goes hand-in-hand with the Butterfly project.
Now that you know my side of the story, I hope you all understand. If I even try to mention tattoos to anyone in my family, they won't hear it. They just tell me not to do it, and that it will mess up my life. They don't even want to hear the reasoning behind it, they just think it's a stupid immature mistake.