What Being Goth Means To Me

We are all different in certain ways, but it takes a brave and beautiful soul like yourself to take the time to let others see that for themselves and admire it. Makes me glad I took the time to learn more about you.

I like your description of goth. I was a follower of the goth esthetics and music when I was in my twenties, most of that music still remain favourites of mine, like the wonderful Dead Can Dance or Cocteau Twins, feel a deep beauty in stillness and melancholy, and an attraction to darkness.
What has changed is the places where I see that horror. Now I see it much more in a couple leaving together but with no communication, or in a person with hopeless eyes, walking the streets shuffling his feet, than in a hand raising from a tomb. And I would love this horror would not exist. I would like not to see anyone suffering. I don't believe in the beautiful of suffering any more.

i like the fact that you are very honest about it and don't automatically hate ppl. you are cool n i wish more ppl were openminded like you are.

Beautifully written. Humans tend to judge the dark without understanding it first, that is the beginning of a very fatal mistake. You cannot overcome such ignorance by acknowledging something so blindly without the truth, that is a true bane.

Thats how you are and no one can tell you different.

:) your being who you are and i think its awesome. I admire you.

That was very well said.

I can't speak for all goths when I say this, but I do generally believe that deep down in our hearts, most true goths are peaceful, loving and do care about the world around us.
It's a different way of life to prefer the shadows over the light, the moon over the sun, wearing what we want instead of what everyone else wears.
Most chalk it up to apathy but it takes bravery to be what we want to be and metaphorically spit in the face of the opposition.

There's nothing wrong with having a 'dark' side and I feel it is always up to the individual to live their life the way they want to. To do what pleases them instead of others.. not in a selfish way but to simply be oneself above all other things.

Now, with that being said. When push comes to shove and I am made to defend my choices and rights, the claws can and will come out..