I have 4 tattoos. The oldest is 20 years, newest about 6. I don't care about the motives in any of them any more. Oldest is a cross and I'm 90% atheist now :) All the tattoos are crude by today's standards.

I don't mind at all though and I will never get them removed. I look at them (rarely or when somebody asks me about them) like a history of my personal development. The cross reminds me that even the things I care most about at one point will change, fade, die.