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For quite a few years now, i've been seriously considering getting a tattoo. Actually i've been considering getting three. But it's scary

For one thing, tattoos are permanent. That's a kind of commitment i don't think im ready to make. that's worse than marriage. i know you can get tattoos removed now, but what if i get it then decide i don't like it a week later. Is is worth the hassle and pain of getting one (or three) only to have it later removed?

Then there's the big question of taboo. Are tattoos okay or are they taboo? How religiously unacceptable are they? We do lots of things every single day that are religiously unacceptable. Is a tattoo (or three) worse than any of those?

But the guilt trip lasts only a few minutes and then i go right back worrying over the permanency of tattoos. It can be such a scary thought to think that ink you put on your skin is there to stay. It just stays there. It never goes away it's there every single day (back to the commitment metaphor). You can't wash it off and in many places you can't cover it up either.

These thoughts consume me so much that on a random night like this i find myself researching (googling) tattoo removal methods and comparing between them. Yes, i am finding out how to remove the tattoos i don't even have yet.