Mark Wahlberg Takes His Kids to Get His Tattoos Removed
23.05.12
After reading all the comments about what tattoos will look like when the person is seventy, i had to go check. so i went downstairs, where my eighty seven year old grandfather was watching tv and asked if i could look at his tattoos. he got them when he was in the navy, during world war ii. one he got in san francisco, of my grandmother’s name, and two he got in new zealand, where he was recovering after being wounded. one is a maori tribal ring meant to signify strength and the other is the longitude/latitude of where the battle took place. i asked him if he regretted getting them, and he said no. they may be nothing to someone else, but they come from a very important time in his life. the ink may have faded some, but their importance hasn’t.
i agree that some tattoos look foolish, and they may very well come to be regrets. but the vast majority of people who get tattoos get them for meaning. if you wouldn’t judge the rose garden you plant in memory of someone, why should you judge the rosebud tattooed on someone’s wrist in memory of someone?
Source: People Magazine