The new year has rolled around, and may I take this opportunity to wish everyone who reads this a Very Happy 2016. May it deliver what you ask for.
For me, the new year rolling around says holidays are almost over - nearly time to start gearing up for the working year ahead.
I decided that I needed a haircut, so off to the hairdresser I went. The queue was about 5 men long, so I joined the end of the queue and waited my turn. There was just the one young hairdresser working her way through the queue, so I figured the wait would be about an hour. Resigning myself to this fate, I did what I tended to do in such situations and people watched. People fascinate me - their behaviours, their histories, their attitudes. Understanding that I am viewing them through my own lens of behaviours, history and attitudes, everything I think and write is observation, not judgement - I do not know these people and as such, I am in no position to judge them (nor do I want to).
That being said, it is fascinating to watch the world go by. The hairdressing salon was in a large northern suburbs of Perth shopping centre - so there was much to see. Through the window, I noticed after a time that there was a significant proportion of the population with tattoos. Personally, I don't see the point of tattoos, but clearly many others do and that's fine.
My father had a tattoo on his right arm of a monkey being wrapped up by a snake. It was no big deal, sometimes you saw it, sometimes you didn't - it all depended on what he was wearing at the time. What I observed of the passers by was that if their tattoo was on the foot, the person was wearing thongs. If the tattoo was on the arm, the person was wearing a tank top or singlet. If the tattoo was on the leg, the person was wearing shorts. If it was on their back, the shirt they were wearing showed the tattoo. In a reasonable number of cases, it was all four.
It also occurred to me that there were probably many tattoos walking past that were not exposed.
What I further noticed was that a disproportionate percentage of the people with tattoos were women. Again, just observation, not judgement.
It seemed to me that many people seem to be getting tattoos these days and then seek out clothing that will ensure that the tattoo is on public display. This got me to wondering why this was so, and further to that, why there has been an explosion of tattoos over the last 10 years or so. Is it simply a fashion trend, or is it something else?
I would be interested in your opinion. Please post in the "Comments" section below.
In the end, it did take about the hour to get out of the hairdressers. I then took my place in the parade that was the passers by and, like them, continued about my day.
Until next time,
CfB
For me, the new year rolling around says holidays are almost over - nearly time to start gearing up for the working year ahead.
I decided that I needed a haircut, so off to the hairdresser I went. The queue was about 5 men long, so I joined the end of the queue and waited my turn. There was just the one young hairdresser working her way through the queue, so I figured the wait would be about an hour. Resigning myself to this fate, I did what I tended to do in such situations and people watched. People fascinate me - their behaviours, their histories, their attitudes. Understanding that I am viewing them through my own lens of behaviours, history and attitudes, everything I think and write is observation, not judgement - I do not know these people and as such, I am in no position to judge them (nor do I want to).
That being said, it is fascinating to watch the world go by. The hairdressing salon was in a large northern suburbs of Perth shopping centre - so there was much to see. Through the window, I noticed after a time that there was a significant proportion of the population with tattoos. Personally, I don't see the point of tattoos, but clearly many others do and that's fine.
My father had a tattoo on his right arm of a monkey being wrapped up by a snake. It was no big deal, sometimes you saw it, sometimes you didn't - it all depended on what he was wearing at the time. What I observed of the passers by was that if their tattoo was on the foot, the person was wearing thongs. If the tattoo was on the arm, the person was wearing a tank top or singlet. If the tattoo was on the leg, the person was wearing shorts. If it was on their back, the shirt they were wearing showed the tattoo. In a reasonable number of cases, it was all four.
It also occurred to me that there were probably many tattoos walking past that were not exposed.
What I further noticed was that a disproportionate percentage of the people with tattoos were women. Again, just observation, not judgement.
It seemed to me that many people seem to be getting tattoos these days and then seek out clothing that will ensure that the tattoo is on public display. This got me to wondering why this was so, and further to that, why there has been an explosion of tattoos over the last 10 years or so. Is it simply a fashion trend, or is it something else?
I would be interested in your opinion. Please post in the "Comments" section below.
In the end, it did take about the hour to get out of the hairdressers. I then took my place in the parade that was the passers by and, like them, continued about my day.
Until next time,
CfB