World Goth Day

Firstly, happy "World Goth Day", to fellow minded goths out there.

I suppose you could say I have been a self proclaimmed "goth" since I was 25yrs old.  I admit I started late there but at almost 36, I am happy to say I still follow the goth way of life (unfortunately I have to tone it down a bit for work).  I took that first step and dyed my naturally blonde hair, jet black, and I have not looked back since.  I always wore black clothes anyway so I was already halfrway there. 

Tell me this, how do you meet likeminded people in a town where you are the only goth?  Simple.  You use a computer.  I had my friends (very girly) but, they accepted me for me.  Admittedly they did try a few times to get me to wear pink or some other bright ridiculous colour but they finally gave in to my way and let me be the person I am today.  I used to get the odd stare or comment, sometimes it hurt but most of the time I ignored it.  My friends would give me the comment, "You rock", quite a nice comment really besides, who else were they going to borrow black eye make-up from on Halloween?  They certainly wasn't going to waste their own money just for one day.

What kind of Goth am I?  I am a hopeless romantic who loves the works of the great poets, Shakespeare and listens to the music of "Within Temptation, Lacuna Coil, Serena, and have to admit have gotten in the The Black Veil Brides".  Am I an evil person? No.

Why should we be classed as self harmers, moody, suicidal just because the way we/I look?  We wear dark clothes and listen to dark music, but we are still human.  And now we have a day to celebrate this.  Today was the first time I heard of it, but it is now engraved in my mind and it will be a date that I wont be forgetting in a long time.

Enjoy yourselves out there whatever you have planned for our day to be as one.