SAY NO TO EMO

Introduction
Ok I have to be honest with you out of all the books and articles I have read I most always skip the intro. I never really saw the point or thought it necessary but now as I sit here late at night or super early in the morning writing a book of my own I’m beginning to understand. The intro is like a taste or a sample of all I have to tell you in this wonderful book you are about to read. So read it real fast and I will try to make it short, sweet and to the point…..

Well how about that title to my Emo lovers out there? I know it sounds really harsh or like I’m dissing you, but trust me I’m not. If anything I should be thanking you, you opened my eyes to so much, and you also taught me one of the most important things I will ever learn. Ready for it….trust god with all your heart and put him first before everything in your life because he is the only one who will never fail you. I know you guys are thinking were in the world did you get that from hanging out with us, well I’m about to tell you. Along with everything else you lovely dear Emos taught me during my 3 month trip to Emo land…..

Say No To Emo
See at this very moment I am unable to sleep because I have all these ideas running through my head, and I’m really struggling to find peace and comfort though I continue to search for it harder than ever, hoping, because if I don’t hope, if I don’t have faith that God will come through for me even though my friends, family, and even my ex-boyfriend who I trusted more than anyone can’t…it would be so easy to start to turn into one of them again. And to be one of them I would mean my priorities would shift and God would no longer be first on my list and I would begin to try to fill that hole, that spot, with other things like attention from others, drugs, alcohol, trashy music, boyfriends, cutting, and the list goes on and on. See what I have discovered is being a follower of CHRIST is HARD. You have to have FAITH and that scares us, so instead of turning to God and trusting him we put our trust into the other things I listed above. What people don’t realize is when they try to fill this hole they are really searching for God subconsciously because it’s the only thing that will work there. But what they don’t get and the question they keep asking themselves is why these things keep failing me. Well I will tell you why from experience, I was one of many who tried to replace God with other people or things because short term they are easier to trust because you can see them and interact with them so easily but in the end the only person who will never fail you is God, period. Don’t get me wrong Emos are defiantly not the only ones who are trying to replace God in their lives, everyday we encounter many different kinds of people but have the time we are justifying them doing so, and we don’t even see it. The only reason I use Emos as my example is because, well lets just say I did some Emo bonding for a few months and over that time is when I really got to understand what they are all about, and you know what I gathered? They are exactly like me, the only difference is they are still trying to fill Gods place, that hole in their hearts with other things they are still putting their trust in their “friends” instead of God. As a result they are getting hurt and then their hearts get harder and harder as time goes as they continuously keep getting hurt. I’m telling you it is a more slippery slope than Crisco on a plastic tarp guys, it’s scary! And once you start this evil little cycle it’s hard to break it.

So Different…Yet So Much The Same
Okay, so what I have notice about these wonderful people that we as the youth have labeled “Emos” (and other people of all sorts of course). They tend to shut people out who are not like themselves. Most people would dismiss this as them being judgmental, but I’m here to tell you that it is so much more than that….i mean true to some extent they are being judgmental, but it is also because these people are afraid of being judged. When I was trying to really connect with these people and get to know them I found it much difficult, it was almost as if they had put these walls around themselves when I was around. They also acted like they had to be someone they weren’t, just because I wasn’t Emo. They would always have the same excuse every time I would ask them something “we are so different there is no way you could relate” or “we come from completely different worlds”. Ever since I can remember the world has been sending out the message that we are so different from each other, that no one can really relate to one another’s circumstances, and no one else can really know how you feel. Which is a big fat lie! I mean yes we are different and no circumstance is exactly the same, but we are not as different as the world portrays us to be. We all fall in love, we all get our hearts broken, we all get excited, anxious, nervous, mad, and sad, we all go through trails and hard times, and yea some are harder than others. I agree, but that doesn’t mean other people can’t relate or understand what you are going through. So that’s really it they are afraid of rejection and judgment because the are continuously getting hurt by people they think they can trust and replace God with. Or sometimes these people who don’t trust people are searching for God and don’t even know it yet.

Judging Emofied
Wow, this is probably going to be the trickiest subject to talk about because it’s so controversial. But one thing I put together that I thought was pretty funny though is the Emos are always upset and complaining about other people judging them for the way they look, what music they listen to, the way they talk, or for many other reasons they are judged and how not fair it is. But then its ok for them to turn around and do the same exact thing to anyone who is not their own. You know what that it is called….in security. How they reason and justify this does not make much sense to me at all, I mean what do you think, I mean people getting upset for people judging them so to make up for it they are going to do it right back…yea that’s real mature. And let me tell you this doesn’t just go on between the Emos and the preps in high school it goes on between any two groups and any age you can think of. I mean whether you want to admit it or not we have all been judged and what is our reaction… we lash back of course! Yepp, that’s what I thought, pretty sad, huh? I’m not trying to be like sham on you, you little judger person I’m just like guys, lets change the tide a little and break the cycle? What do ya think? You up for the challenge?

In The End The Emos Ate My Boyfriend
Okay I want to tell you guys a little story! I know, I know you r so excited you can hardly stand it, try to hold back the excitement for me, ok? See in sixth grad I met this boy in band. He was really nice, and funny, and smart. Not to mention the first boy that ever liked me. To keep the story going lets just say I had a huge crush on him all through sixth grade….and seventh grade…..and eighth grade. I got him to go to youth group and by the end of his seventh grade he had accepted Jesus as his personal savior. But things started to change in eighth grade. See, Daniel met the Emos in eight grade, he actually dated one for two weeks, but it just wasn’t meant to be…THANK GOD!! But I guess this was the beginning of the Emo adventures. Don’t get me wrong these so called “Emo adventure” were very important and I would almost venture to say the were a vital part of me growing up. But poor Daniel is just another example that you become who you hang out with, he just never woke up. And guys if you get anything out of this section I hope it would be that it is so easy to step down from your morals and expectations rather than to expect your friends to step up to them, and you might loose a few so called friends in doing this. But I promise you it will pay off in the end…stand strong.

Emo Verses
Ok, you guys should know this by now...but just so the emos dont think im picking on them...anyone could relate to these verses, its just when i read them i thought it sounded like somrthing for this wonderful crowd...i mean if it offends you, im sorry....its the bible....but yea like i said it can apply to anyone and everyone....

Being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of there heart, and they, having become callous, having given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness. but you did not learn christ in this way, if indeed you have heard Him, and have been taught in Him, just as truth is in Jesus, that, in reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance witht he lusts and deceit, and that you be renewed in the spirt of your mind. and put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.(eph.4:18-24)

But immorality or any impurity or greed must not be named among you, as is proper among saints.(eph.5:3)