"MY STAND ABOUT EMO MISCONCEPTIONS"

This was my Elocution piece, I actually wrote it myself. It was a free speech and I can do anything I want in front of everyone.. haha!!!

Here it goes:

Hey, what are you looking at? You’re thinking of something, I know. You’re laughing at me right? Why? Is it the way I dress? The way I act? I know that something In the back of your mind says “she’s emo”… Wait…

What is an emo? How do we define it? How do we look at it?

I’ve asked several people on how they define emo, or what they think about emo, some answered me “Oh Emo, they wear thick eye liners and it looks like they haven’t slept for days”, another one goes like “They cut. They love blood,” and someone even said “Emo? It’s the loud music people listen to, they’re scary”

But is this what an emo really is?

Now let me make things clear, Emo is a way of life.

This is how people deal with their emotions. Some people resort to denial, some resort to diversion, but when you chose to face your emotions and accept what life has given you? You’re emo.

Emo is a way of life, it’s never in fashion. I can wear this (my outfit) and not be emo, I can have this (headphones) and not be emo, I can put eye liner and not be emo, I can have bangs all over my face and not be emo. No one is an emo because of what he wears; you can’t be emo by the way you look.

Emo is not music. Some people would refuse, but I insist. It could be in the music, but this music is only the medium of cultivating their emotions. I can listen to Screaming and loud music and not be emo.

Be it, not wear it.
Feel it, not listen to it.

That’s emo, not a fashion, not the music.

Emo is a way of life. People say it’s stupid, but it’s not. It occurs because of the absence of governing thought but it doesn’t mean that common sense is also absent. Emo is not in suicidal attempts. It is never cool. Never fake it for sympathy or attention. Hurting yourself won’t make you emo.

Emo is a way of life. It is not something to be proud of. And Please, Emo pride doesn’t exist. Emo tend to shy away from everyone else, isolate and have time coping with emotions. Emo never aim to stand out, to publicly display it, to flaunt it. That’s not emo. Emo is something to be ashamed of, something to hide.

Emo is a way of life. It is within all of us. We all have the propensity to be emo, it’s because all of us have emotions, all of us feel sadness, anger, discontent, depression, and most of all we feel love. The only difference is how people show it, but if you really are an emo, actually, you don’t show it, and most probably, you won’t

Now, do you still think I’m emo? Better think.