Like many of the people on this community web site I have stretched my earlobe's. It's always been something that I have wanted to have. It's always been something that I felt should be apart of me and who I am. I remember seeing the tribes on tv and in the magazines when I was much much younger, maybe 6 or so, and thinking that was the most amazing thing that I have ever seen. I never thought that it was possible for myself to accomplish having such earlobe's, but when I went to get my first tattoo at 16 I saw that the man behind the counter had earlobe's just like the ones I have always been infatuated with. We talked and talked about how the process worked, and he told me all about how it should be looked upon as a life time commitment. After getting my tattoo and going home, all I could think about is that now I knew that it was possible, I could have the ears that I always thought I should have.
At A Glance Author anonymous Contact [email protected] When N/A So after many weeks of contemplating how having the stretched earlobe's would affect me in life, and affect the aspirations I had also, I finally came to the conclusion that I would finally get a part of me that I had always felt I was missing.
Its been four years since that date and I still think it was the right decision. And through stretching my earlobe's I feel that I have moved myself into a higher state of knowledge about how life works. Not just life itself really, but more understanding of how people in life work.
I love my lobes, and it's taken me four years to have them at the beautiful 1 3/4" that they are presently. But things in life change. I would always have people asking me questions about them. Though the one that I seemed to get more than even the dreaded " Did that hurt? " was one that I was forced to think about more than the others; " What are you going to do when you get older? ". Of course I answered the same every time. I would always go on to tell them that I would always have them and that I would always love having them as a part of me. But now as I said before, things change.
Currently I am preparing myself for boot camp. Navy bound I am. But there is one obstacle in my way that is holding me back from signing the dotted lines and shipping off to boot camp. The things that I always use to say that I would have until the day I died, my earlobe's. I have sat for weeks and months now, pondering what was more important to me, wondering what steps I need to take to get where I want in life. Now I realize that to get where I want in life. I have to make one of the largest sacrifices in life that I have ever had to make before. My earlobe's, all 1 3/4" of beauty was going to have to be removed from my body. It's not that I do not still love that and feel that they are an important part of me. But I just don't feel that they "are" me anymore. If that makes any sense. I think its time to move on now, not on and away from body modifications or tattoos, but to move on to bigger and better things.
Like I said previously, it has taken me four years to get to the size them are now, and they haven't been my only modification. I have had plenty of other piercings, on the face and other areas. But they have always been my main infatuation and also the main reason why I would always get comments from others. They were also a main reason that I wouldn't be offered jobs, or get into places, just because I looked "odd". And that never really bothered me, until I realized that I would have to have them removed to join the Navy.
Now the Navy hasn't always been my plan in life. In fact my hopes are that I can get into hair school. But with the way I am headed in life I just don't see any way possible for me to accomplish that, or any of my other goals. So as I had told myself years and years ago, in fact before I began to stretch my ears, I would join the military if that is what I felt would be my only acceptable way to get into college or if I was just stuck in life and didn't think that I was headed to
Now I have the procedure set for two weeks from today. I am a little anxious and a little excited. I know its what I have to do, to sacrifice to get where I want to be. The procedure sounds innocent enough, and to calm my nerve and mind I was invited to watch a procedure where a guy was having his earlobe's cut larger. This was amazing, yes it looked painful, but not unbearable. A few simple cuts and it was over. I am told that it will only be a few cuts with me, and some stitches and then I will be all done.
After I have the procedure done, I plan on writing all about it. I hope to make it as informative as possible, because I know while I was performing research on how to get them back to "normal" it was very difficult to find information, even on BMEZINE.COM.