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I have an eyebrow ring, and lately I have been addicted to
playing with it. During class, while watching television, talking to a friend,
or typing on the computer, I always find some motivation to touch it. Mind you,
I have had this body piercing for quite some time, but touching it so often has
manipulated me into fashioning this article... so here I am!
It has become quite popular for people to have body piercings -- especially
teenagers. Although my guardians were not thrilled with the idea of my having
facial jewelry, they recognize that it is my body and I could quite possibly be
doing something worse. They say that dying your hair and getting piercings is
another type of exploration of your personality.
So let us say that my eyebrow ring is a fragment of my personality, so should it
define who I am? My friend has her labret (below the lip) pieced, another has
his tongue, and my sister has her navel pierced. Of course that does not confine
the people that we are, so why does it seem that way?
Citizen-designers create piercings all the time, whether it is the tongue or
eyebrow, and they are accepted into sale. That must say that it isn't to immoral
or inhumane. So why do some people treat it as if it is?
For example, at the beginning of February I was preparing for a Co-operative
Education placement, which allowed me to go into an Elementary School and teach.
I teach Grade 5. My teacher decided that I should take out my eyebrow ring
because it would be a negative influence on the students. How does that make
sense? Shouldn't people concentrate on my abilities rather than my physical
appearance? Isn't that what everyone is taught at a young age, so why don't some
people practice this theory?
Of course the students were enthralled by my piercing, and still talk about it
from time to time. They have no problem with it, and it sure doesn't affect my
ability to learn and my capacity to teach. Why should I take out my eyebrow
piercing for a job interview? If I am wearing it all of the time, you would
think that it would be accepted for me to continue to wear it.
It does not make me any less intelligent, observant, or human. Although me
playing with it disgusts a few unmentioned individuals, (believe me, it doesn't
hurt) they don't look at me differently or expect anything less. One day I will
take it out -- I don't plan on being a seventy-year-old retiree with an eyebrow
ring (or do I?) -- it is just something that I wanted to do.
I do not regret it, and I won't change myself to please anyone person. You
should not either, but you should wait until your old enough to decide for
yourself whether body piercings are for you. Now back to playing with my eyebrow
ring....
April Fools,
TIKE
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