Regret getting that tattoo?

Dr. Kwan Yuan Dong, in his recent above captioned letter says, people get tattoos for many reasons; they could be cultural, personal, a decision made on whim, or simply because they like the design, or I could add the present trend among the young, both males and females. The humorous irony is that, especially women who get these tattoos in their bodies were not exposed.

Whatever it be, here is what Dan Brown says in his book ‘THE LOST SYMBOLS’- “The goal of tattooing was never beauty. The goal was change from the sacrificed Nubian priest of 2000 BC to the present tattooed acolytes of Cybele cult of ancient Rome, to the Mako scare of the modern Māori, humans have tattooed themselves as a way of offering up their bodies in partial sacrifice enduring the physical pain embellishment and emerging changed beings. Despite the ominous of Leviticus 19.28 where forebode the marking of one’s flesh, tattoos had become a rite of passage shared by millions of people in the modern age – everyone from clear cut teenagers to hard-core drug users to suburban housewives. The act of tattooing one’s skin was a transformation, declaration of power, an announcement to the world ‘I AM IN CONTROL OF MY OWN FLESH’.

G. A. D. SIRIMAL

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