If you need to ask... you aren't one.

Yeah!

What if they just don't like the real me, though?

So, what you're saying is I can't be emo?

Bella Dea wrote:

So, what you're saying is I can't be emo?

Not if you have to try.

Bella... I'm not sure you're cut out for EMO. I have a feeling instead of freaking out, driving wildly through traffic, nearly killing you and a half dozen other people... all over a little bitsy spider... that an EMO would instead ponder where the spider cam from, what its purpose in life was and then, after setting it free, would go home and paint a picture, or write a song about the experience... perhaps even start a "Save The Spiders Foundation" in order to stop the sensless killing of defensless spiders.

How's that for trying to stop you?

What ever happened to just being yourself?

Hear, hear! That line of thinking seems to be a novelty these days....

One MUST be something else, or pretend to be somebody else. Then, look around and see if anybody is noticing you being somebody else.....

I was impressed very deeply, while still a teenager, at the intensity of scorn and disdain (even to ostracizism) which the young will exhibit toward those who do not join them in "non-conformity" . . .