My ear stretching journey is almost over

I started stretching my ears at 14, which is almost 7 years ago now. It was always very important to me to do it properly and only go up when my ears were ready and I felt like I had achieved something. They now, almost sit at 3/4" I feel I'm ready to stop. I've got one ear at 5/8" and one at 11/16" and in the next 6 weeks my 5/8" ear will be 11/16". Then I'm going to wait until my wedding to go up at 3/4 and I'm going to stop.

I can't help but feel a little sad, it was a huge thing for me in my life and at some points it was the only thing that kept me moving forwards. Even if I was at my wits end with life I always knew that my ears had the potential to succeed, and they have.

I'm making this thread for two reasons, one being that I feel like this journey should be recorded somewhere, so it's not forgotten. And two, because I hope that someone comes here, thinking about stretching their ears and does it the right way, not the instant way. This is a religous thing to me and when I see the little girls jumping gauges every other week it depresses me. This is such a special practice, and it's been done for thousands of years to express more then the punk or hippy movement.

Well, thats it, I hope it wasn't too long.

 

No it wasn't to long

 

I'm in the process of stretching my lobes now. I don't really look at it the same as you, I take my time only because I don't feel like going up a gauge so soon. Your post has inspired me to look at it from a new angle, thank you.

 

Well then my intentions worked. As far as I see it hundreds of cultures all over the world have done it to show a progression and maturity of some kind. For me to do it for any other reason is disrespecting that. Hell, even Buddah has stretched ears.

 

congrats!!!

 

well i guess since i like the way stretched ears look and that's why i did it, i must be disrespecting those cultures...

i'm really very upset with myself.

just some puny 00's, nothing extravagant.

 

Hey man it's just my opinion. You don't like it thats fine, don't reply then. I don't really care for your negitivity.

 

??? I wasnt aware there was an instant method can you explain it? I've been stretching my lobes for four years now. They are only 6mm. I like your story what was your method in stretching?

 

hey "MAN", i don't really care for your high horse either. "well, i gauged my ears because..."

who cares? it's a fashion statement now.

basically they cut the size hole you want into your ear, instead of you stretching it. eugh.

 

Your effing kidding me! Seriously? I bet the success rate is at most 5%

 

wow your story is very inspiring .i want to stretch my ears to how i think my growth inmyself and life is..i dunno if that makes sense but im not sure how else to explain it...im on a journey right now with dreadlocks..and even though its a different type of thing i think they both take time, paitence and other things...the journey is deff worth it ...hahah sorry to go on there.

 

I also have my ears stretched too. My ears now sit at 5/8" for the left and 3/4" for the right. I took less time than you did in stretching my ears though, around 2 - 2.5 years. They are fine though. I know what you mean by stretching ears being a religious thing. I understand that aspect, although the main reason I did it was just because I wanted to, and I wasnt going to let anybody stop me. It didnt sit well with my mom though, but she accepted them as its my body and Im entitled to do whatever the hell I please with it.

Either ways, Having stretched lobes are fucking awesome. I have a couple plugs for them including sets of hand-carved wood and stone pieces.

 

Your childish, go away troll.

 

i agree with you completely. a very special thing that should be done slowly. the point isn't to have huge holes, but the journey of getting there.

 

you're as in you are, not "your". k?

i'm sorry i haven't grab-assed for the ticket of my "religious experience" supposedly attached to gauging your ears and the righteousness of saying it was such, when you aren't even in any of the native tribes that consider it as such. you're white and canadian. i'm sure they'd consider that a big hawk-a-loogie in the face, considering white people raped the planet and all the races in it.

have you ever shoved a spear into a wild oxen?

do you even know what a bodhisattva is?

do you worry about slave traders?

not to mention it looks like you're in a subculture where stretching your ears is "cool".

i'm sorry i'm not trying to be a "troll", i just hate when people can't be honest with themselves and try to make other people look bad.

 

all hallows not to be rude but um how do you know she's not in a tribe that does this...?... or that her religion did this as much as others..prehaps you should ask this info before you make judgements...just like you dont want othes to do to you, thinking your a troll...

 

Thats a very interesting story. i have been wanting to stretch my ears for some time now, and i think i will approach it at a better angle now. i have enough time to do it the right way and it would make me feel accomplished.

 

i'm sorry, i just don't like hypocrites.

 

LOL

sarahrei, I know exactly where you are coming from. Dont let some non-significant person anger you. They obviously dont get the whole journey and growth aspect. You're in the right in my book.

 

Thank you so much