Hw 32- Psst... Once Upon A Time

I believe that there is such a thing as reading too much in to something. People who get tattoo's have their reasons. But I think that it is believable for someone to get a tattoo and not be in pursuit of the attention of others.

On the other hand tattoo's can be a total "attention grabber". First impressions are golden. I believe that society has made many people believe that tattoo's come with EPIC STORIES! so naturally you want...no you need to know them. You think to yourself how awesome and cool it would be to know someone that has an EPIC STORY! to tell.

Knowing someone that others see as cool automatically makes us cool. Being cool is being SOCIAL. It makes you much more interesting when you can share your EPIC STORIES! about meeting EPIC PEOPLE! This act of speaking makes you popular and wanted.

But no one likes to be a sidekick, you want to be Batman. You want to run the show. This causes the chain reaction. You now want a tattoo of your own so that you can be Batman and some poor schmuck will be your Robin.

This leads you to have an EPIC STORY! of your own. We like this outcome.


There is also the theory of how cool means being close to the people around you. Take celebs for instance. Like 1/2 of the band Tegan and Sara. Tegan (In the picture) has several tattoo's. I think she's cool for other reasons but lets focus on her "tatt's". It makes fans feel like they know "celebs" when we know their EPIC STORY! behind their tattoo's.

Having EPIC STORIES! makes us feel important. We only feel important when other people make us feel important. This is key. We have to get noticed without seeming desperate for people to look at us. We are always silently screaming LOOK AT ME LOOK AT ME trying to get people to pick up on our signals.

Now, what would make people look at you and automatically want to talk to you?

A TATTOO!

All we ever want is to work our way up to the top. We want our very own Batcave and we want to drive our own Batmobiles. We like to feel in charge because we figure that not alot of people have the chance...better yet the right to be in charge. So being in charge makes us feel different. Like outcasts. "Wow I'm actually in charge. No one else knows what this feels like. I'm different from everyone else not in charge"

But in the end we are all outcasts with the same dream.