My obsession with Frankenstein's monster

I cannot tell you how many people have asked me about my "Obsession" With Frankenstein's monster.
Which I guess is a legitimate question when I have him tattooed on my body.

I guess it all started 12+ years ago when I saw the movie for the first time.
Of course when I say "the movie" I'm referring to the original.
Boris Karloff will always be the one and only Frankenstein in my mind.
I'm not really sure why, but I have always felt like I related to the character.
The fact that he was put together with parts from various different People if you will.

I feel like I am composed with such a miss match of emotions,likes and dislikes that sometimes I feel as if I am as well.
When watching the movie I couldn't help but feel bad for him, I felt like everyone just misunderstood his intentions.
He just wanted to be loved (Enter bride of frankenstein), and well yes he did cause a bit of trouble along the way but who hasn't?

I think a lot of it has to do with the whole "Beautys only skin deep" notion for me as well.
Just because you don't look and act like everyone else, doesn't mean you aren't beautiful.
I feel like a lot of people have a hard time with this concept.
Especially people of different generations.
I have had a vast array of hair colors through out the years, and just when my parents thought I couldn't get any more weird, I started with piercings.
My mom took the piercings a little harder than the hair color, and years later when I got my first tattoo that took the cake.
I specifically remember the first "Visible" tattoo that I got, I really thought my mom was going to have a melt down.
I guess it's a bit much to take but after so many years I think she got over it.

Society projects this whole image that Skinny is beautiful which I think is a crock of shit myself.
Considering I know a lot of girls who are average size and they are gorgeous.
Some of the people on TV are downright too skinny for my liking.
I think this constant need to be thinner and thinner is what causes a lot of eating disorders in teenagers across the country.
I understand that as Americans we are the most obese country, and I get that we probably spend a bit to much time consuming things we shouldn't.
But I don't think that we all should be cookie cutter status to say the least.

A few years ago on America's next top model, there was a girl covered in tattoos.
She was beautiful! They cut her before she actually made it onto the show.
She wasn't what they were "looking for".

It still kind of shocks me that in 2011 there are so many things that still aren't accepted.
Sure People look at me funny because I'm covered in tattoos, and I'm a girl on top of that, but I'm being me.
I find that a lot of people are put off by my outward appearance before even getting to know me. (just like Frankenstein)
I think it's terribly sad that so many people are such closed minded.
Spewing un-necessary hate toward each other for no reason what so ever.
I'm sure there are so many people's parents that would just be totally ashamed of the way their children act.
When as children we are taught right from wrong and our manners (Frankenstein's monster would have been such a different character if he had a father not a maker)


Frankenstein to me symbolizes What is inside of all of us.
The ability to love and the choice to cause chaos, the decision is usually decided based upon how others treat us.
Most of all I feel he symbolizes me, Tough (sometimes rough/haggard) exterior but on the inside just like everyone else.
Dealing with emotions and how to express them.

I know some of you will not agree with me at all on this topic but It's just my opinion.
And luckily for us we still do have that right in our country.

"I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other."