School sux. everything is just wrong. Friends always bickering. Back stabing, just everything. Wh ycan’t everyone just chilax. I mean im not saying be their best friend, but at least just get along. All this fighting and crap only makes things 10x worse. Then there are all these friggin labels. cliques and crap. you either fit in or you don’t. theres never any in between. Populare or your not. thats it. I never understand that. Like it will seriously matter in 20 years if u were populare or not. i mean all that crap is wat leads to this and just pushes me over the edge… i mean how do people cope with stupid high school anyway?? wat are was to get around everything that goes on?
dude, (or dudette) im in middle skool and this one girl wuz my bffl (best friend for life) but then she stabbed me in the back because im emo and she wants to be popular…that is wat pushed me over the edge. i agree with you.none of this will matter in 20 years.
Thats crap. I took the emo goth route later on after all this crap started to happen. it was a way for me to kinda “scare” overone around me so that they wouldnt talk to me. But it so shouldn’t matter if ur emo or populare. u give a flyin crap. im srry she did that. its crap and i know what that feels like.
From someone who wore a lot of black to high school before the word “emo” was even known in the mass population, I can say that dressing the way I did was one way of coping with people, school, society, etc. I think it can be a positive expression of your identity. Remember though, your identity is ever-changing throughout your lifetime. I fondly look back at my “long black hair and Cleopatra makeup” pictures and realize that I want to allow my kids to express themselves too. I’m not going to be the kind of mom that won’t let her kids wear certain attire because my own attire in high school was such a reflection of who I was and what I was trying to say to others. Like you, I did it to keep people away from me and to attract those that might feel similarly to me. But I was also expressing a positive notion: I didn’t want to conform to norms, wear the same thing everyone else had on, say the same things everyone else said, do the same things everyone else did. I was (am) unique. I have my own thoughts, actions, ideas, and creations. So, if you can take any advice from an old-schooler (graduated high school in ’98), it would be to search yourself for WHY you’re Emo. Is it simply an outward expression of negative feelings (i.e. depression, etc.) or could it also be a positive way of expressing how different you are from others, which many times in our entrepreneurial and capitalistic society, is what gets a person ahead in life. And you’re right—high school stuff won’t matter even a few years after it’s over. It’s so cruel (I think) how hard and seemingly important high school drama is at the time, but I guarantee you, its importance never leaves high school. Therefore, my best advice is to get through high school as best you can and imagine all your school mates in their future jobs. You think the bully is going to be a CEO? Nope, he doesn’t have the right attitude. You think the head cheerleader is going to have diamonds and cash the rest of her life? You’d be surprised at what happens to people after high school. The purpose of high school is to get a public education. So just do that—open your ears in class even if you pretend you’re not paying attention. Then when high school is over, all the people that just concentrated on “what’s popular and what’s not” won’t have as much knowledge as you do and won’t get the good jobs, colleges, houses, relationships, families, etc. Take the upper hand from them and be smarter than they are for the good of your own future.
well to be honest im the freak in my school.
im the one who is in love with CRISS ANGEL.. and the one who wears a lot of black eyeliner or really BRIGHT Eye shadow..
but to me i call it freedom of expression. and they can just get over themselfs.
to be honest i want to be my own person and be who i am and not worry about stupid stero types cause no of that is going to matter after high school
COLLEGE does not do any of that CRAP.
i really hope things get better
email me if you want to talk
its better to live with no regrets than trying to follow everyone else..
you know you sound just like someone i talk to at school. he always says that you cant live life with regrets. Im just now starting to live by that. kinda wish i would have listened sooner. u sound alot like me