Would you call wanting to get a tattoo at 41 a mid-life crisis?

My first was at 19 and then again at 34 to cover up the old one, (BIG UGLY TATTOO) replaced with a work of art.

Now at 39 I am about to take up the art myself, I always wanted to learn how, so I am self teaching starting next week, starting with fruit and such and then on myself when I feeel I can do it without truly turning myself into a nightmarish hamburger.

You are far from being too old.

My neighbor who is nearly 60 just had some work done and wants to see my sketches, she wants more work done so I may offer to help out for a price. My friends all have tattoos old and young alike.

It is an expression in your mind that takes form in the art of that tattoo on your body. The oldest person I knew to get one was almost 90.

And there were people as old as 105 getting them in Japan and China as I heard recently.

So go do it, just don't get some silly Bon Jovi tattoo or something!!

Reflections on the so-called mid-life crisis. The great good old poet (Dante) does initiate his poem telling us that "In the middle of the journey of my life I found myself into a dark forest where my good way was lost". The good way was the direction and the goals of his life and to his regret he could not tell anything clear and proud of his achievements. If you do imagine that you should live a hundred years with dreamy plans and achievements for your life, when you have reached the first fifty of your years you may realize that you did not achieve anything great and you are scared of seeing your life as a failure. Some, males and females, do clearly bother about their wanted achievements; some or many others do live their shallow way of life while occasionally confessing that the doom wanted their life to be so. If the already achieved goals and the riches of your life are equally much precious for you in your life, you will not bother that they did not become very great. You lived some half of your good life, and you will go on with the hope to bravely going through the other half of your life for then becoming a hundred years old and perhaps more. You did not have a mid-life crisis, you did have a time of deeper reflection about your life. If the feeling of crisis does appear, it will evaporate into the sweet more sun-kissed air of honest achievement and of pride. So also you may be thinking of your mid-life crisis. Do have good glowing thoughts of a happier more proud more daring life of now and for future and good luck with you!

Of course not, why would it be considered a mid-life crisis if you've been wanting a tattoo since you were a teenager? People of all ages get tattooed. If you want it, then do it. You don't want to pass on something you've wanted for so long and later regret not doing it. Did your husband say that you better not get one? Would he be mad at you if you get it?

Your husband, and other people, are entitled to their opinions, but in the end, it's your body.

I wouldn't call it a mid-life crisis. Most people get tattoos that represent who they are at a certain point in their life. This will just be you at 41. My uncle just got his first one, he was over 40. He got his kid's names on him.

If it's something you really want to do, don't let anyone hold you back!

I say go for it! I decided I wanted another tattoo when I was 18. Never got it because my fiancee at the time didn't like the idea. After I canceled my wedding (long story) and we split. I went and got it out of impulse.

And it sounds like you have wanted this alot longer then I did. So go for it! He loves you! He should respect what you love!

you can always get a small tatt on ur shoulder or ur butt, fact is u have one and they not in bad places for woman and can be quite sexy. And age should not matter at all , tatts come a long away these days, more considered work of art than ur a "whore" wanting a tatt etc..

go for it, why not :)

Age is just a number, if you are dictated to act your number then you age quickly. Seriously who cares what others think as long as you find it tasteful and you are happy. Rule of thumb, think like a carpenter, think twice and act once.

I would call it a coming of age! I gave my dad his first at 57, and he hasn't stopped since.

why...as you get older it will be come wrinkled and ugly...people that have tatoos in my opinion ..have a need or to do something to there body ...or maybe just to say i did it...just ask your teens how they will feel about mama getting a tatoo..