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My friends and I were emo in high school and we didn't even realize it. We weren't depressed and obsessed with death like the goth boys and girls and we weren't exactly cool enough to be punk, though in a lot of ways I was a lot edgier than my friends. We felt like the here and now was the only thing that mattered and our problems were the only ones that existed. We were emotional to the point of narcissism, but then again what teenager isn't? I don't think the trend is a new one, just the label. For us it was just a different kind of teenage rebellion and the songs and attitudes that went with it were just ways for us to figure out who we were and I liken it to my mother's generation of hippies.

We thought we were going to change the world and that our parents had never before felt the way we felt right then. We had the moody songs that defined us, the freaky colored burgundy (at least for me) and bright green hair chopped into a million odd styles. We tested the limits of what our families and schools would take from us and while it looks ridiculous from the outside looking in, it was healthy. None of my friends died or became emotionally scarred from going through an emo phase. It was a fad, a way to be right then, and when we had learned the lessons that life needed to teach us right then, we left the emo behind and moved on with the rest of it. There's nothing wrong with being emo but there will come a time to leave it behind. I was emo before emo was cool!

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