Valaama

Curt wrote:
> A "My Turn," the Newsweek editorial segment, was included in a
> literature class I recently completed.
>
> In the essay, which appeared in the July 16, 2007 issue, Lois Desocio
> writes about coming to terms with her son's tattoos.
>
> Well, if writing, "I stay up at night and worry. My son will have no
> choice but to join the circus. What else can he do when he's 40, his
> bald head in the grips of inked-on spikes? Will there be naked women
> etched on his back? How about a purple MOM flowing across his chest?"
> can be considered coming to terms.
>
> Seems as if mom's not as informed about her son's seeming obsession as
> she could be or she'd know that his hypothetical 40-year-old bald head
> will not have to settle for inked-on spikes, especially when implants
> will, I'm assuming, still be an option for her son when he reaches his
> 40th.
>
> Regardless of the degree of Mother Desocio's knowledge of bodyart, she
> includes a positive note on her son's latest interest by stating, "And
> there seems to be an upside to all this. Where I used to see a child
> who was always a bit self-conscious, I now see a young man who is
> infused with genuine self-assuredness because he has more tattoos than
> anyone else he knows."
>
> That's upbeat enough, however I wonder if his perceived self-
> assuredness comes from the quantity of the tattoos he possesses or
> simply from the feeling he gets simply knowing he has that ink.
>
> See: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19649899/site/newsweek/
>
> --
> Curt
>
I left home at 18 and never returned. What a dysfunctional family.