You've gone almost 60 years without making this error in judgement why stop now? Stay the course.
Who gives a shit? Its human flesh. Nothing more, nothing less. Eventually, it will be rotted away or burned to ashes. No one will care if someone has tattoos and they can easily be covered if on your back or shoulder. Either way, each day your body is decaying--at this point, who cares if you put ink on it. It really makes absolutely no difference in the grand scheme of things.
“Yet, at the same time, as the Eastern sages also knew, man is a worm and food for worms. This is the paradox: he is out of nature and hopelessly in it; he is dual, up in the stars and yet housed in a heart-pumping, breath-gasping body that once belonged to a fish and still carries the gill-marks to prove it. His body is a material fleshy casing that is alien to him in many ways—the strangest and most repugnant way being that it aches and bleeds and will decay and die. Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering majesty, and yet he goes back into the ground a few feet in order to blindly and dumbly rot and disappear forever." Ernest Becker
