Something to consider...

[Sirghe]

Okay, just before you read any further... if you are highly emotional, take none of this personally! This is simply MY thoughts and MY opinions... so please don't be mad at me either!! ^^;;;

Okay to start...emo, Webster's Dictionary (website) says that emo stands for "emotion" or "emotive," yeah okay, sure... but when did it get this, highly emotional, "I hate my life," dark, suicidal, association?? I can understand people being depressed, and I can even understand people being THAT depressed, but nowadays, just like a whole lot of other words (like "love" for instance) it's lost much of it's meaning, mostly because nobody takes it seriously, or worse yet, just want to be like everyone else and have a dark moody side... Don't get me wrong, I too have thought my life sucked, but recently I've looked back and discovered that the reason my life seems to suck is becasue of the choices I made! The only people, I feel, that have the right reasons to be "characteristically emo" are the people that have noe control over the things in thei life that makes them so miserable; people like the children whose parents beat them or mistreat them everyday for no reason at all. These are the only people that really have a good reason to be so depressed, and they shouldn't be picked on, or crticized with comments like, "Quit being so emo!" because that just hurts the problem. The sad thing is, you normally can't tell who really IS emo, and who's faking it... well, that's not true, most of the time the people who are faking it are wearing NOTHING but Hot Topic clothes (because it's WAY to expensive for someone being abused, because their parents don't give them any money to buy it...) and/or hang out in a group of people that call themselves emo... Granted this is not always the case, so don't get upset.
I'm not going to judge ANYONE that calls themselves emo, or acts in such a way without ever saying they are, because I have friends that I love regardless, and thus will never do anything to hurt them, but for all you posers, I want you to do what I did... look at your life, at what you're complaining about, and see if what depressing you was caused by something YOU chose, or something uncontrollable... if you chose it, well, write a nasty blog about it and MOVE ON! There are many other things in this world coming your way, but if you are moping about something YOU caused... you'll miss it. And to all you that truly are broken-hearted because of things out of your hands... Don't worry, the time will come when you too will be happy; it may not seem like it now, but it WILL happen, and until then, know that you've got someone to talk to... ME! So please don't be a stranger...

[ABYAY]

Lots of serious words there Sirghe and it makes sense.
Yes most of us have been through depression. I sure have. I've had those 1-3 day depressions, but I've had one last like 2 weeks and now it's way behind me.
But yeah, don't fall depressed UNLESS there is SOME reason to do so.

[plebanshiren]

I've seen this problem way too often around where I live
Alot of my freinds have a good life, loving parents yet they turn emo and start saying things like "I'm just gonna end it" and "why does fate hate em?" (their words not mine btw). Out of the 15 emos that I know, I think only TWO deserve the title 'emo' because they actually have to live very tough, hash lives.
The main reason that people are turning to 'the dark side' as my freinds call it, is because they love the attention, and the sympathy they get when they say things like the quotes earlier.

[Masakuni]

Well...really, I don't mind if the person is always emo because of something they can't control or that their life is always hard, but I can't stand the posers who just be emo to be in the crowd...

[Graedius]

I usually use the word as a joke, like,
"I'm gonna go hide in a corner and be emo now."

[contention]

The meaning and the term of Emo, Sirghe, is only a mere character of what we bring forth in our society throughout these days. Sure it might be something in which is heard most often, but like every other slang term; there is some definition behind it. However, this does not mean that it pinpoints upon every matter when it turns belly-side up. This is far from the situation, the syllable itself is deragatory but used in a certain type of scenario. The reason we confuse it with anyone who seems to be having a hard time, is also for the same issue in which we mold any "phrase" around it's wrong feature. For centuries, we as mankind have constantly done that without regret. So, before heading into things; it should be taken through consideration the manipulation of the English language and what it can expand itself into. As you begin to mature, and turn into an adult; you will begin to admit that there were certain "labels" you would say for diffrent events when you were younger. Words such as "cool", "totally", "righteous"; and while these may all be humorous to us now, for their days it was how peers spoke to one another. They were common terms that were easily linked with some kind of attribute; saying them would make the user feel like they belonged to some part of the society. This is an example of how certain "parts" of any language can come to form and gain their own existance over time. At first, it may be something small with one direct meaning; this would be the truth and justice behind it's stature. Then, as it begins to crowd its way into other mouths, it will slowly begin to manifest into something new. Think of it like a game of telephone; you start out saying one thing to a crowd, and by the end of the event the sentence from the beginning will turn into mush and confusion. It's our nature of things and that can not be scripted, for it happens everywhere nearly everyday. When compared, with the figment of what a rumor starts as; while it may begin small, it will soon find roots and start to shroud it's wings in other forms. Finding new "parts" to build it up, perhaps making it worse than it trully was at first.

Emo of the likes is in fact a word of today; meaning that it is but a simple little spot on the canvas of our global language. In it's minority, it was a rare type of the spot, and it's first mention was used with someone, "Who acted depressed, when things really weren't bothering them". It's hard to explain, but people would usually paint someone with the title of Emo when they would "mention" of having a hard life, when in fact their bounty could be better than they would let themselves know. Emo was used on those who thought they had it off, when there are those worse out among these moors. Then as it began to fall more into our laps, the word that is, it became a unison usage between nearly everyone. Once the main part of the crowd got their hands on it, many people started to percieve it in diffrent lights; so it went from something sanitary, to an all out offensive term to anyone with any sort of probelms who made them known. What does this mean? It means that people used the word without understanding it's true definition, therefore causing it to gain a new balance in our own "dictionaries". This happens all the time, and is also a reason why grammar is so heavily influenced in the states. Over the years, by accident; we as mankind have misused many words in situations that they shouldn't even be placed within. Think of it like this, instead of saying that someone "laid" down to sleep; the majority will write "lied". When you ask yourself why, it's only because so many before them had done it. In honesty, if you say someone lied down to sleep; you are using the past tense form of the term "lie". That wouldn't make a very coherrent phrase or really get you anywhere when trying to explain something. However, because we use it so often, it really isn't something that sticks out as being wrong in our own formats. So, you might in fact find the word of being "Emo" as something which means, "Life is over, it sucks, and you're going to mope in a corner". But that's not the true definition, if you have a friend with probelms; they aren't in fact "Emo" or what it really began as. It depends upon their behaviour and what they are looking for, and that always will.

Sure we all go through probelms in our lives, it's what makes us human. The fact that we are all still in our youths only contributes to this passion even more. It always will as well, until at least we begin to grasp at the larger picture. You will find that many seem to complain on the simplicity of the lives they live. Saying that they feel without love, without friendship or companions of the sorts. Yet, ever man in and of himself has always been in love. There is many forms of that feeling, and the way you take it is dependent upon your own sight of the world, and the diffrent emotions that script your body. It's an oddity when someone feels "alone" in the world as well, for there will always be a friend for you out there; sure at the times, things may seem damp and dark. But those who appreaciate your scent shall never leave your side, nor let the shadows tingle down your back. A true friend is that which shall stick to the surface, no matter how rocky the breeze may become. In our Teenage to Mid-Adult youth; we see everything has becoming a part of a drama. We are intwined in these troubles that make us stick out, when we feel all is hopeless. We don't give our minds time to process every ounce of information, and we don't give ourselves the experience from the issues that we deserve to feel. Due to this, the picture slowly crumbles around us; giving that term of Emo a new list to add it's name to. People need to learn to live with themselves, let alone the world that they were put within. There is nothing here that can take away your spot, besides your own hands and the ventures that you pertain yourself into. Everybody does something, everybody effects someone; even the most outcasted, undescripted. You are never apart from this world, even when far away; for the mind shall always hold spirit, mind, and memory.

So you're right about what you said in your decipher of what Emo meant; yet it also goes to show that the world is pretty much altered in the true view of what it began as. Then again, everything does change over time; and it always will no matter how it seems to play itself out. As well, a stereotype all of the area for "Emo" seems to be the slit-wrist factor; which in justice, got its name from a certain action that's pretty self explanatory. Yet, just because someone is down, or depressed does not mean that they are going to implode and harm themselves. Heck, some of the most outrageous "Emo" outbreaks you may see, could be concluded by someone keeping their thoughts and feelings in. A good thing to do, is to let out your pains, not in an ocean but by the waves. The more you hold things back, the more you have to anger yourself; at times, we need an explanation as to why something went wrong. If you keep that troubled spot inside of yourself, it's only backup to all the other efforts. Soon, when it pops; all of it will drain, leaving you discarded without a certain place to go. So don't fret to let things ease out of all our mouths; be patient, be kind, and remember the frailness of the human mind.

[Anjil]

I want you to do what I did... look at your life, at what you're complaining about, and see if what's depressing you was caused by something YOU chose, or something uncontrollable... if you chose it, well, write a nasty blog about it and MOVE ON!

Heh, that's the way I think it should be. I find it annoying when someone complains about their misery, when they're the ones that brought it upon themselves.


I never defined someone who's "emo" simply as someone who's depressed. I always defined it as someone who has an insignificant reason to be depressed, but still is anyway. I always use it in comedic terms.

[CoralYoshi]

rotfl the blog part made me giggle. That's too true, though, many people get depressed over silly things and are looking for attention. I think most people went through one of those phases, though. XD I know I used to be lame and depressed for reasons that I could have solved. It's just a cry for attention. :\ The truly depressed people mostly don't want to talk about it and try to be happy "like everybody else."