Or other permanent body things.
Be careful about offering up identifiable information that you can’t change on a random lemmy post, especially if you’re in the U.S.
I have a dumb fucking stupid scar on the meaty part of my palm under my thumb, from using a pair of wire strippers - backwards - as an ad hoc pickle jar opener. The little chunk barely attached left now a perfect little sharkbite scar that I’ve grown to despise as a reminder of hubris
Well scar sure. With I didn’t need those stitches in my leg. Zero out of 10. Would not recommend. I mean, do people gather scars for fun, like tattoos?
Some people definitely do, but many also got scars from things that while they might not be thrilled about the scar or hospital visit, they are happy with what they did.
Like saving a class of kindergartens from a burning bus on the high way and getting a big scar on their face. I don’t necessarily think that person would like the scar, but they wouldn’t necessarily regret saving the children ether.
I see.
For reference, I got a full back tattoo when I was 17, but the only thing I regret is having to get a few bad teeth pulled due to not taking care of them in my twenties.
Take care of your teeth kids. They don’t come back.
I’m not a violent person, but I have gone down on a road bike many times and one of the common injuries is skinned up knuckles. I have some deep scars as a result. It would be easy to assume they were the result of violence. My size and build also supports this assumption. I am entirely the opposite type of person.
My hands look awful, but any scars are literally from my crappy skin cracking horribly from 3 years of food service hand washing. Frequent handwashing is brutal if you have bad skin…
Were you a cook? I did 8 years front of house and my hand never got to that point, even with a 2nd job working in a dirty warehouse
Worse, grocery store deli / hot food counter. Frequent switching between ready to eat food and raw ingredients, and shitty gloves that constantly ripped open.
I have a scar in my left armpit. I have several patches of skin all over my body which looks and behaves funky. I have brown straight hair but where my funky skin is I have blond spare curly hair which doesn’t grow long. I got it lasered on my neck and face as a teenager because I was told it needs to go because insurance didn’t want to continue paying for an acid creme to make it brighter (the skin is also darker and uneven). + random assholes asking me if I didn’t wash my neck. Under my arm the skin got often inflamed from sweating and looked like a rough naked mole. They tried to laser it and I got bad scarring and they decided to cut it away. Roughly 10 cm. The scar is ugly as hell. I can’t feel shit and it is uneven and hard to shave around. Lifting my arm for sport like jumping jacks hurt. Lucky me I hate sport anyway.
I have bad teeth. There was no expectation that men have to do anything to look good growing up, so I never worried about it, and my parents never made me (which is fine). Now I just can’t even begin to afford it.
I don’t regret any scars. But I have two tattoos I wish I didn’t have and one I wish was a little different. I’m black, and most artists that aren’t black themselves do not work with black skin. So some of my earlier stuff is “bad” because of that . However, I rarely expose my limbs so I forget about them a lot. At the end of the day, I just don’t fancy them, but I’m grateful they’re not something truly horrendous or offensive.
Edit: I regret getting a second ear piercing, but that’s because it caused a keloid. I was relieved that it was about the size of a pimple and never risked it again.
No, actually. I got tattoos way back when it was a shocking thing for a woman to do, am really so shocked myself that they became popular. Thought I might not like them when I was in my 30s/40s but knew I’d like them when I was old. But as it turns out, I liked having them straight through and still do.
Scars I do like too.
I had a piercing that turned into a scar. Got a stud put in at a music festival, and that’s how I learned I’m allergic to low-purity silver alloys. After taking the anchor-y part off the back, I had to fish the stud out of my swollen earlobe with needle-nose pliers.
I did the thing and got a tattoo of something special between me and my spouse.
Now ex-spouse.
Am currently getting laser tattoo removal to lighten it enough for a cover up.
Ah. Yep. I did the same in a way. Thankfully mine is tiny and still means enough to me and is detached from the relationship enough that I can enjoy it as it is.
I have a badly healed broken pinky. It only hurts when I grip someone hard for a long time (get your mind out of the gutter!) such as when doing sports like rock climbing or fencing.
I regret letting my helix piercing heal up. I need to get it re-done.
Sweet Sports, my dude!
All my tattoos, they are cheap and one contains my kid’s deadname so I keep it covered is much as possible.
I mean, I would prefer to not have needed to get a heart transplant and the accompanying scars, but it was due to a genetic defect so I don’t know that “regret” can play into something I had not control over.
I haver a scar (more like a small disfformity) I regret because I sometimes feel that if I would have gone to the doctor in time (or at all) I would have not have it now. Also I got injured by doing just a stupid thing so it’s sad have a constant reminder of that. But whatever, you end up learning to live with it.
I’ve read your comment multiple times and am still confused, it’s almost magical xD
