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Just Understand.

August 3, 2013
By DeathOfAStar GOLD, Kailua, Hawaii
DeathOfAStar GOLD, Kailua, Hawaii
11 articles 1 photo 70 comments

Favorite Quote:
" Emancipate yourself from mental slavery"




- Bob Marley


People Like Us- In this life of ours, we are misunderstood and judged for reasons we should be heard cradled. Every problem building up inside like water to a closed dam. Until that dam gets a crack and the water comes pouring out. For us the problems come rushing out through broken skin from razors on our body. Crimson red relief we call it. We want to be understood, but we can't understand ourselves in this world where understanding is rare, and where blind ignorance is so common among people who honestly don't give a crap. But hey we put on that fake smile and fool everybody that those scars are from the cat. The "licensed clinicians" trying to reach into our head to pinpoint the "root" of our condition, who are no more help than a blind brain surgeon performing an important operation. Accidentally poking and prodding and pushing that spot in our heads to make us snap. Then there's the questions and stares when you show your battle wounds from losing that fight with yourself the night before, hoping that you can avoid punching as many people as possible. In this life of ours we are labeled freaks, crazy, emo, insane because we are different. This girls has scars on her arms so she's automatically an outcast. That girl who's bipolar changes emotions way too fast. This girl who's emo because her collection on black clothing is too vast. That girl is crazy because her past two suicide attempts aren't her last. No one but people like us can relate to people like us. In this life we are tortured by the monsters in our head, telling is we'd be better off dead, cutting to feed the hunger that can never be fed. What people don't know is that in this life of ours the phrase actions speak louder than words is the whole point.



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on Oct. 2 2013 at 7:00 am
DeathOfAStar GOLD, Kailua, Hawaii
11 articles 1 photo 70 comments

Favorite Quote:
" Emancipate yourself from mental slavery"




- Bob Marley

Awh thank you c: Btw i love the album Sempiternal cx

on Oct. 1 2013 at 5:01 pm
BeSempiternal SILVER, League City, Texas
9 articles 0 photos 4 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."

This is.. amazing. Just beautiful.

on Aug. 31 2013 at 9:01 am
WallFlowerAlice GOLD, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
16 articles 0 photos 65 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Why wait when you only live once? Go out there dance, smile, and enjoy yourself! If your not having fun then darling your doing something wrong!"
- Therese

"Like this is my favorite I can almost relate to it," said Alison

on Aug. 30 2013 at 10:13 pm
Ray--yo PLATINUM, Kathmandu, Other
43 articles 2 photos 581 comments

Favorite Quote:
God Makes No Mistakes. (Gaga?)
"I have hated the words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right." -Liesel Meminger via Markus Zusac, "The Book Thief"

well said!

on Aug. 28 2013 at 8:58 pm
DeathOfAStar GOLD, Kailua, Hawaii
11 articles 1 photo 70 comments

Favorite Quote:
" Emancipate yourself from mental slavery"




- Bob Marley

omg thanks (:

on Aug. 28 2013 at 7:30 pm
DeathOfAStar GOLD, Kailua, Hawaii
11 articles 1 photo 70 comments

Favorite Quote:
" Emancipate yourself from mental slavery"




- Bob Marley

welcome (:

Staticlife said...
on Aug. 28 2013 at 7:18 pm
Staticlife, Clive, Iowa
0 articles 0 photos 2 comments
its the same all over, we listen to metal music. Outcast. Wear all black. outcast. Make odd jokes, outcast.  Thanks for writing this asia!  

on Aug. 28 2013 at 6:46 pm
DeathOfAStar GOLD, Kailua, Hawaii
11 articles 1 photo 70 comments

Favorite Quote:
" Emancipate yourself from mental slavery"




- Bob Marley

awh thanks (: 

Zolenz DIAMOND said...
on Aug. 28 2013 at 5:19 pm
Zolenz DIAMOND, Musquodoboit Harbour, NS, Other
65 articles 0 photos 173 comments

Favorite Quote:
The pain that have cost us, the evils which have never happened.
- Thomas Jefferson

true true true. well said it resonates.

on Aug. 26 2013 at 9:14 am
DeathOfAStar GOLD, Kailua, Hawaii
11 articles 1 photo 70 comments

Favorite Quote:
" Emancipate yourself from mental slavery"




- Bob Marley

thank you (:

on Aug. 26 2013 at 9:09 am
liberalartist GOLD, Stillwater, Minnesota
14 articles 2 photos 42 comments

Favorite Quote:
Poeta nasicur, non fit. (a poet is born, not made)

that was really well done, and extreamly true in todays socitey

on Aug. 15 2013 at 9:26 pm
PeriwinkleFallsSoftly SILVER, Princeton, New Jersey
7 articles 0 photos 12 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Some people have lives, some people have music." - John Greene

"That girl is crazy because her past two suicide attempts aren't her last." Beautiful words. This is powerful work. Good job Asia :)

on Aug. 12 2013 at 7:18 pm
DeathOfAStar GOLD, Kailua, Hawaii
11 articles 1 photo 70 comments

Favorite Quote:
" Emancipate yourself from mental slavery"




- Bob Marley

thank you c:

on Aug. 12 2013 at 7:17 pm
Fallen_ PLATINUM, Quakertown, Pennsylvania
25 articles 3 photos 433 comments

Favorite Quote:
" a shattered world is only an opening into a new beginning with laughs, smiles, and love all around enter the world of the light and away from the broken darkness"

So true asia, we live in a society that judge us on what we appear not how we act or think. You nailed everything perfectly. Well done. you sent chills down my back from this omazing poem

on Aug. 12 2013 at 7:12 am
DeathOfAStar GOLD, Kailua, Hawaii
11 articles 1 photo 70 comments

Favorite Quote:
" Emancipate yourself from mental slavery"




- Bob Marley

thank you (:

midnightwoah said...
on Aug. 12 2013 at 7:12 am
midnightwoah, Monett, Missouri
0 articles 0 photos 188 comments

Favorite Quote:
"We accept the love we think we deserve." -Stephen Chbosky

So true on how society judges us by what we have done and our appereance. I love your similes and other figurative word choices!

on Aug. 12 2013 at 7:08 am
DeathOfAStar GOLD, Kailua, Hawaii
11 articles 1 photo 70 comments

Favorite Quote:
" Emancipate yourself from mental slavery"




- Bob Marley

In this LIFE* of ours, lol sorry.