How I got my first scar hoping it would turn to a tattoo.

When I was a kid, I watched a lot of TV drama and action movies, I'm always wondering why the antagonist is always the one with the tattoo, I feel like they are trying to pass a message that only the bad guys get tattoos, and the lessons I got from my scary dad preach to me how a tattoo is really bad, I think all Africa parent feel this way. Back then when I was a kid, I got bullied a lot, this sometimes put tears in my eyes, back then, parents in my country don't take bullying so serious, they would ask you to get back at the bullies and if you can't, they would believe you're not smart or shape

My school was far from my house and I had to go by myself at 7years of age, I had to enter 3bus before I get to my school, I go every day all alone, even though I get bullied, I never for once ran away from school, I would go up against them and get beaten again.

Until one day, I felt like if I get a tattoo, the bigger boys would fear and leave me alone, I thought of all ways to get a tattoo, as a kid I didn't know tattoo was drawn by tattoo artist, I thought everyone with tattoo drew it themselves, also I felt if you want to be a bad boy, you have to have a tattoo and people would fear you. Then decided to ask a friend, he gave me the scariest and most stupid way as I think about it now, but back then it seems like the most ideal way.

My friend told me to get black charcoal, then use a razor blade to draw the kind of design I want then use the grinded coal to rub the cut, then boom, I have a tattoo. I already got the black charcoal, it was just remaining the razor, my mom won't let me get close to any sharp object, so decided to save up and buy the razor blade myself. On this faithful day, on my way to school, I already collected my transport fee from my dad but I wanted to follow a free moving vehicle. There is something they call "TAMO" This is the process of jumping on a moving vehicle heading towards your destination and jumping down after the driver slows down a bit, also you would only jump in the vehicle only if the driver give consent.

I trying to TAMO on a moving vehicle that day not too far from my home, as I run after the lorry, as I was about to jump at the back of the lorry, my leg miscalculated the speed and my life was about to be swapped away. After I fell from the lorry, I hit my head on the floor, roll like 5times before I stop, the driver didn't even wait to see what happen to the kid that fell from his lorry😥😫, he just increase his speed and drive away.

I went back home crying because I was already bleeding from my arm, it was a deep wound, my uniform was already soaked with blood, the sight of my blood scare me more, I thought I was gonna die, when my mom saw me, she ran towards me, carried me up and began to take off my cloth, administer first, took me to the hospital for proper treatment, after a while I was doing okay, I couldn't go to school for someday. One evening I just remember my grinded charcoal, I went to get it immediately and started applying it to the wound, now I'm wondering how my wound heal so fast, thank God for my studio decision to add charcoal didn't turn my wound from bad to worst when I resume back to school, I showed my classmate, "Yo man, I got a tattoo" I told them I did it the way my friend asked me to, for sometimes, some bully fear me because they believe I'm a more bad boy now that I have gotten a tattoo. My wound heal and turn into a scar, a beautiful one, I was the first kid in my school to ever get a tattoo and I was respected for a long period before my luck faded off.😀😂

The End.

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Article type: True story
Date: 27.02.2022
Author: FashTioluwa