On stretching ear lobes. I started doing it because I couldn’t wear regular earrings anymore. I got my ears pierced when I was just a few months old. And I’ve always been a sucker for big eccentric earrings. As the years went by, my hole just kind of stretched and my ears would get infected if the earring wasn’t real gold or silver. They’d get all swollen and they would just hurt really bad and I dealt with this issue for many years. So I started stretching away. I started at a 6 and moved up to a 2, then stopped. I took them out because I knew that my reason behind me changing my body like that had to have some legitimate reason behind it other than it being a last resort because regular earrings infected my ears. I did a lot of research, soul searching and meditation and almost a year later I started stretching them again, I’m currently at a 00.

I can’t speak for anyone but myself, but the reason why I decided to do it again, WAS NOT because it’s somehow now a trend or fad (which will die very soon.) It’s because I need to keep an open mind. I listen with my ears; therefore they must be open for creative innovations & wisdom I’m also exercising my patience and courage plus it also helps me practice my stoicism to pain… because pain is nothing but weakness leaving the body. Almost something like the Bindi, you know that “red dot” in the middle of Asian and Indians foreheads. That area between the eyebrows is said to be the sixth chakra, the seat of “concealed wisdom.” The chakra is the exit point for kundalini energy. The bindi job is to retain energy and strengthen concentration, also to protect against demons or bad luck. The bindi also represents the third eye. Therefore, my ears are sacred for many things, thus they mush stay open at all times, and if need be, they need to be closed then I shall go and get plugs! :) that’s my philosophy.

(Source: fuckerysell-out)