Stories of The Dark

What is love?

Is it more than faith?

No..........................

Love is nothing without faith.

You hope that love will never break,

But time changes everything,

Sometimes love breaks,

But in the end love heals everything.

Have you ever been stuck in a situation wherein you find yourself lost?

I have - but things are complicated to explain so here is my story...

One day when I was on my way to school... I thought to myself that the day would turn out not so good due to the fact that my foster mom, also known as my best friend's grandmother; was telling me how disappointed she was with me. But things changed when I walked into my first class of the day. It was U.S. history class, great class to start the day off. Not really its not so easy to pay close attention to history when you first wake up. Well in my case it is, but I had gotten there really early for me. It was about 7:30 AM, I started to think to myself where my classmates where. I remembered that I was sitting in Julie's seat next to another classmate that I truly have a crush on. I remembered his name as he sat down to start wrighting. I said "Hey, Josh. How is your day?"

I thought to myself right in that moment what would he say if I had smiled a bit. But suddenly he said "oh, nothing I just am not feeling well today." I blushed and said well I hope you feel better.

Gothic industrial culture is a culture in itself, where people who have like interests come together. I really enjoy this subculture because of the music, art and fashion. The music tells stories about certain things in my life. For example there was a time when I was constantly fighting with my grandmother and it really hurt me.

The way I eased my hurt inside was by listening to this music to let out what I was feeling. I really related to what I was listening to. The music is very sad, slow, angry, loud, or even screaming. Some artists that contribute to this subculture play metal, rock, grunge, techno, and alternative music. In my opinion the music is very important to this subculture. To me the lyrics really meant more than they literally were. I really appreciate the gothic style because it reminds me of a passion I have with the medieval times, it really caught my attention and made me interested. The Goth culture is seen as a type of cult to others who are not familiar with it. Many in the media have incorrectly associated the Goth subculture with violence, hatred of minorities, and other acts of hate.

However, violence and hate do not form the culture; rather, the culture is formed in part by recognition, identification, and grief over social and personal evils that the mainstream culture wishes to ignore or forget. There is some violence against Goths. In part because of public misunderstanding and ignorance surrounding gothic subculture, Goths sometimes suffer prejudice, discrimination, and intolerance. As is the case with members of various other controversial subcultures and alternative lifestyles, outsiders sometimes marginalize Goths, either by intention or by accident. Goths, like any other alternative subculture sometimes suffer intimidation, humiliation and, in most cases, physical violence for their involvement with the subculture. So if you are like me and have interest in this gothic culture, please look more into this.

By Kayla Rtichey