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Originally Posted by Okami
The time I actually feel happy is when I don't think about "what is being goth?" I mean, it is a lifestyle choice right? And of course it doesn't matter if you don't fulfill the sterotype.
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Dress however you feel like dressing, listen to whatever the fuck you want to as far as music goes, talk to the people you enjoy talking to, etc... etc... Live your life as comfortably as you can in clothes that are comfortable to you, and all that other stuff. Who cares if it's called something like "goth" if you have to listen to specific music or like specific music in addition to what you like.
Don't care about the word so much and just live your life.
In highschool one of my coats ripped, I couldn't wear it anymore and it was early january. I didn't have any coats so my dad lent me his military trenchcoat from when he was in the army. First day I walked into school, 85% of people I could've considered friends or even acquaintances, saw me and I never heard a word from them again. They simply didn't want to be associated with me later, I would've switched back to the type of coat I wore before, but I liked how the long coat kept my legs warmer than my older coat so I stuck with it. I found out later kids thought I might try to shoot up the school, but any of my actual friends who found that out laughed at that prospect. (I knew all sorts of kids, from football players, drama kids who partly were okay with being "seen" with me, chess/math geeks whom of which still enjoyed my company, preppy kids which got dropped down to only 1 actually still liking to hang out... and 1 of my 2 bestfriends wouldn't even look at me anymore)
In my opinion people who do that to you, just because you ripped your coat and had nothing else to where, aren't people worth caring about. I spent my junior year of highschool being incredibly depressed due to a lack of friends and insomnia.