Emo People and People Who Act Emo

May 1, 2008
Mood: --exasperated--

I'm very nearly sure now that I do want to be a psychologist in the future. Or a psychiatrist. The remaining years of school before I graduate shall be dedicated to finding out the difference between the two, and which one I really want to be.

This post is going to be about mental health and stuff related to it. Because I need to get a lot of these things out of my system.

See, in my opinion, people have a right to be sad. They have a right to feel down. They might feel sad for a reason; they might not have a reason at all. Some people may have a bigger and more legitimate reason to be sad than others. But the bottom line is - everyone has a right to feel things.

Different people have different capacities for pain. Some people can handle a lot of stuff before breaking; others have very little tolerance. Some people can bounce back after a very short period of sadness, others need a longer span of time. Some people might just feel slightly sad for a day, while for others the sadness may be rooted in a bit deeper, and it might evolve into depression.

Having said that...

--here comes the rant--

I don't like emo people.

Not just the MCR-listening, make-up wearing, eye-liner abusing, tattered clothed population. I dislike people who act emo. Those people who are sad because they desperately make themselves sad. Those people who have everything in the world to be thankful for, and yet don't see it because they refuse to see it. Those people who are in all actuality just minorly sad, yet claim that they are heavily depressed and take your focus away from people who actually need help.

I think I just addressed a vast majority of MySpace occupants in that last paragraph.

But seriously... I just can't stand it when someone who's pretty much well off in life, lives with their parents, has no bills or lawsuits or jobs or anything to worry about, and has time and money to buy make-up and color their hair, comes up to me and constantly badgers me with the fact that they're depressed.

EXCUSE ME??!

I'm not stupid. I know the difference between sad people and depressed people. I tend to be warmer and give more help to the latter, because there's a very real possibility that they might do something to themselves. And no one wants that to happen.

But please. Don't cut yourself and post the pictures on whatever internet account you have! That's NOT depression - that's attempting to fit in and conform with the "cool emo" crowd! That, in my opinion, is a blatant act of "Hey everyone! Look at me! I'm so fecking emo I shit razor blades and cut myself with them! Ho ho ho!!"

The worst part of it is that they drain you. They drain you of every drop of positive energy in your system. They come up to you and speak of how damn awful their life is. They turn all the focus to themselves. All the time. They eat you up, and then chew you thoroughly, and spit you out. Then they move on to other people and do the same.

And so when someone who REALLY needs help comes along, you're left with no energy to help them.

Why??? WHY?!?!

There are several types of people in this category. The ones I hate the most are those who fell in love once (or at least thought they fell in love) and then got their hearts broken. They then spend the rest of whoever-well-knows-how-long whining and lamenting their broken hearts, and loudly complaining that they're alone.

NO, you're NOT!!

First of all, there are 6 billion people in the world and counting. Second of all, you live with your parents, they provide for you, you don't have to worry about anything financially. You have friends, you have teachers and everything...

Third of all, if you continue whining to everyone you've met and just met that "z0mg I'm so alone no one will ever love me cause I'm hideous and all that and if he/she/it couldn't even stay with then who will oh the pain, the pain I think I'm just gonna cry help me I don't know what to do he/she/it was my world I don't know what to do without her anymore"...

You might as well just spend the rest of your days alone, cause I don't know anyone who can bear with that kind of self-deprecating attitude. It's kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy.

There is nothing good that comes out of being emo. Of course the world becomes dark and grey sometimes. But don't be surprised if it's dark and gray for them all of the time, because naturally it WILL be dark and gray if you choose to keep your head in the mud all the time.

--end rant--

So it's no wonder I panic whenever I see that a friend has taken their profile picture in the bathroom. Or if they have them "MySpace angle shots". It's a slippery slope, and I don't want them to fall in.

Playing with cats is a good stress reliever. I already feel better. :D