This week my shirt says, "If it doesn't challenge you, it won't change you."
This has nothing to do with this week's video but I really like the shirt so I decided to share it with you.
Hey guys I'm back with another video.
As you can probably tell by the title of this video this week we're going to be talking about piercings.
This week I have my hair pulled back and you can probably see that I do not
have my ears pierced. And when I was 6 years old, I wanted to get my ears pierced and I asked
my Dad and he said, "No, when you're older." So then when I was 7 I asked him and he said,
"No, when you're older." 8, 9, I asked; basically I came to the conclusion that it was never
going to happen until I turned 18 and I could more or less do whatever I wanted.
But now that I'm 17, I realize that I don't even want to get my ears pierced anymore. So one day I was thinking
about it and I'm like, "Why do I want it so badly?" And then I started to think about
what a piercing actually was. You pay someone to impale you, and then you put a metal stud
through said impalement, to ensure that said impalement remains there for the rest of your life.
You pay someone to put a hole in your body and then put an object through the hole
to make sure that it stays there 'til the day you die.
When you think about it that way, piercings don't really make any sense.
And most girls, like now a lot of boys are piercing their ears too, but majority of girls I would say have your ears pierced.
Because in North American culture if you have a daughter, when they're an infant you take them to get
their ears pierced. So a lot of people who have piercings, they didn't even -- they actually
didn't choose, they just got it because their parents got it for them before they even knew.
And then by the time they understood what a piercing was, they'd already had them in
for so many years that even if they stopped wearing earrings, they'd still have a hole there,
so why not. So, I'm not judging anyone who has piercings, because most people didn't
have a say, and then some people have the say and they want to get it.
I personally just don't want to put any holes in my body. And like, yes, I've gotten vaccines which
technically put a hole in your body, but you don't leave the needle there so that the hole's there forever.
And I know that in North American culture, it is a normal thing and it's something
that more or less everyone does. But when you think about it, the "tradition," per se,
in itself, is -- it kind of doesn't really make sense. You are voluntarily putting holes
in your body and then ensuring that they stay there forever. When you break it down and
think about it like that, you realize how little sense it makes.
So if you're thinking about getting a piercing, maybe it's your first one, maybe it's your tenth one, I don't know;
just take a moment and think about 1, why you actually want it, and 2, think about
what a piercing actually is. It is a voluntary impalement and you ensure it's there forever.
So that's all for this week's video, this is just something that I thought about because
a piercing is something that I wanted, like, just in my ears, that's what I wanted;
and now I realize that I didn't actually want it. So I'm kind of happy that my parents didn't
let me make body altering decisions when I was 6 years old.
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