SCARS

A very interesting discussion a couple a weeks ago.  Gives me a little different perspective.  What would you call a mark on your physical exterior that has some meaning attached to it?  I've got a few scars.  Chin from baseball, knee from climbing on stuff, shin from biking, hands from knives and throw in a few surgery scars and there are some more that don't seem to have a significant memory attached.  The friend I was discussing this with opined that a tattoo is a mark on the physical exterior that has meaning attached to it.  Interesting point.  All the scars I have that are larger than 2cm have a memory.  The scar came first, the memory second.   Tattoos seem to have a memory first and then the scar.  In my formative years in the Midwest I was taught that sailors got tattoos, and bad girls had tattoos.  And to some extent today I tend to view (right or wrong) tattooed ladies as different.  I'm not as parochial as I use to be, and they don't have the stigma for me that they use to, and I'd like to accept them, but I know deep in my mental processes I still have some reservations - sorry.  I don't want to have the reservations.    I'd be lying to say I have no reservations.