Each of mine hold a lot of meaning. They also mark significant milestones in my life. I tend to only get them as a kind of reward for reaching a goal I've set—the first one when I escaped debt, the second when I left my job, the third to celebrate a new book being published, etc. Life is just better with tattoos, IMHO. They also connect us with that part of ourselves that is still wild. As much as society would like that to be bred out of humanity, it's still very much there and is of immense value.