You wouldn't want to see a self-taken selfie because even if I’d taken one I’m not vane enough to
think it would be worth looking at. I know that’s as bad an attitude as the one
adopted by selfie-takers but I’d rather be me than them. Older and wiser never
seemed as pertinent as it is now. It seems to me that new fashions or fads are
like a contagious disease... they spread. Everyone hops on the bandwagon and if
you don’t join them they think there’s something wrong with you. Well, I have
news for them, there’s nothing wrong with me except a desire to BE me and not
share everything with a thousand others.
Now that I’ve
grumbled about selfies I am turning my attention to tattoos.
Have you noticed how
they’ve SPREAD? Once upon a time only men, particularly sailors, went in for
tattoos, then girls started to have discreet ones, on an ankle or shoulder, and small enough to be almost attractive.
However, I now see girls who are outdoing the men with whole arms and legs covered
with hideous pictures. I prayed they wouldn’t go the whole hog and cover their bodies like a guy I saw in a
hospital waiting room but I see from internet photographs that I'm a little late in catching on about this awful trend.
The guy I saw in the waiting room was SMOTHERED with tattoos. His whole face, ears
and neck, back and front, from hair line to somewhere beyond the neck of his
t-shirt, showed not a scrap of pink skin. Even his legs – from the little I
could see since the guy wore trousers – were covered. The arms were the same, right
down to his fingernails and I just know the rest of the body was adorned in the
same way. I mean, if he went to the trouble to have his entire face, arms and
legs tattooed why would he stop at embellishing his body in the same ugly
manner? He was literally a tattoo freak, a fact confirmed by Joe when they ended
up in the same ward, on opposite beds.
Now this was a guy
who obviously wanted to look different to everyone else so, although I didn’t
like his appearance, at least I respect his desire for independence. It did
cross my mind, however, that one day there would be many others who would copy
the idea of total tattooing. Seems I was
right!
I wonder if he ever
bothered taking selfies?
