Goth, AND WHAT IS THE TRUE NORM!!

I think it's sad when I walk down the street and people seem so repelled by me because i am Goth.  It's like they are afraid of us.

I used to go to church a long time ago; I showed up to church in my regular style of clothing--Goth--and  there was some kind of show they were doing. One of the people that was in the show came up to me after church and automatically started telling me how Satanism is bad and how i need Jesus.

I just looked at him and laughed.

I still remember my exact words as follows: "Do you even know who I am? What? Just because i am Goth you think I am a satanist? Are you kidding me? I know more about the Bible than you' ll ever know  your entire life. I'm Goth but that doesn't mean I'm a fucking satanist."

I used to surf the Yahoo chats a lot. I found that the most fun people to chat with were Goths. Everyone has this preconceived notion that because of the way we dress and how society looks at us, we must all be Satanist, and we are all mean and unfriendly anti-social and hate the world.

I kind of hate humanity in a sense simply because humanity  seems to have lost its will to survive as a whole.

Humanity seems to have forgotten to embrace all that surrounds us like nature and the air we breath; humanity takes for granted that there is more to life than the TV that i am listening to, or the pc i am typing on as we speak.

There is the moon in the night sky with which I celebrate and pull my energy from; there are the trees for instance, and as beautiful as they may be, the energy they posses is far greater. They produce the air we breath that gives us life. I like the sun for sure, but I feel most alive at night even though the people I see day to day seem to think its just all part of the act I put on. But it's not. I have been this way my whole life. It seems to be those of us that hang on the outer fringes of society have not forgotten to breath and celebrate nature and the energy it possesses;  it is those of us on the outer fringes of society that have not forgotten the fact that there is beauty in everything even...the bad or the dark. Because we are human, it is in our nature to forsake that which we take for granted; but it seems that those of
us on the outer fringe that strive to remember and never forget...do not forget.

No matter how hard i try to explain this to people that are not like us, they never get it.  I get asked stupid questions like: “Are your drinking tomato juice because it looks like blood?” Well no. It's because  I like tomato juice. I'm just as normal as you. I'm just a little tweaked.

The normal people that are curious about Goths just seem to think that every single thing I do has some sort of Gothic reasoning behind it. Quite frankly, I find that quite amusing. Then there are the people who are or aren't curious--but either way, they still look at you like you're a threat, or like you're a freak. Most Christians just seem to be on this never ending mission to save my soul, put my problems in God's hands and all will be solved. But what about solving our problems ourselves and giving credit to God for giving us a brain?

Just because I'm Goth doesn't mean I'm some kind of freak, or that i must be utterly depraved.  I am who I am because I was born that way; It's who I am. I am a very social person. I have no problems with just going up to random people and striking up a conversation. You never really know the
lessons you can learn from just speaking with people.

As a Goth, I am only to be feared if you have toyed with me or mine; otherwise, I'm easy to get along with. I just wish society could come together and not fear us the way they do. We have done nothing wrong. I guess when it comes down to it, they are normal and we are the freaks. But you know what? Who can define normal? The definition of normal is: a lack of significant deviation from the average. Well, what is the real average? This world is so diverse...