Explaining to friends that I've 'Gone Goth' Date Tuesday, April 16, 2024 - 12:08 AM PST Topic Rant Why is it so damn hard to explain to people what "goth" is? It seems all I do is tell them what it isn't! And protest violently that "we aren't evil people! Really, we're normal and well-adjusted, most of us!" These are people I've known all my life. People who have always known of my somewhat "dark" way of looking at things. I just want to say "Look at me! You've known me for years, so you already know what Goth is!" Not that I think I'm THE example of the "true goth", but the point is, I haven't actually changed in any intrinsic manner! I'm just a little braver about expressing what I am and like! And to one of these friends, I just want to shout "look at yourself, if you want to know what goth is!" But she would never admit it. Yet she's the one who I can tell most views this as a "phase" or "acting out" or some sort of twisted form of dealing with the depression I've been fighting recently. And everyone else is uneasy and carefully accepting. Come on people! This is me! You know, me, who you know up and down and through and through! Why do you have to "carefully" accept me! I'm not a life-style, I'm a person! I don't carefully accept you as preppies, or "hunt club", or rabidly fundamentalist Christians, although all those things as life-styles are scary and repulsive to me! I embrace you as my friends! I'm not going to infect you, any more than you are going to infect me!!! Maybe I'm being hypersensitive, but I am definitely recieving a vibe that I don't like at all. I'm sure most of you have dealt with this very thing from friends. I'm so used to having something to say when people ask me why I believe in God, that I'm not used to the feeling of having to explain, but not knowing how to explain. I guess this is something I just need to put a lot of thought into, so things are clearer and more organized in my mind, why and how and if I have changed in any way. Yes, more ramblings from a baby-goth! This article comes from Shmeng http://www.shmeng.com/ The URL for this story is: http://www.shmeng.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=23