| Okay I have been thinking about this article for a long long time now. Probably as long as I have been Straightedge. So I just sat down and wrote it, its pretty raw, its just the things that I feel at this moment that has been kinda bugging me for a while, and I had to get it off my back. Straightedge............... okay so i dont smoke drink do drugs or have premiscous sex. What does that mean? I guess that means I am Straightedge. Well I have been Straightedge for almost two years now, I decided to make this choice, because it would improve my life, and it has. Its like nothing I have ever been "apart" of before. It has changed my life like I never thought anything could. Becoming Straightedge has probably been the best decision I have ever made in my young lifetime. But there are things about being Straightedge that sometimes bother me, and I ask myself questions about myself my life and the Starightedge. A lot of my friends are not Straightedge, and I would like it to not change anything about our friendship. But sometimes it does, it seperates us..... but I dont realize it. And I wish it didnt, but it does and neither I or that person can do anything about it. Because I cant go back on the choices that I have made and I wont go back. And being Straightedge goes against everything that I believed in before I became Straightedge. Unity between everyone in the scene, no matter what. And I wish those people could understand that I dont want to be seperate from them but I cant help it. Another thing is some other people who are Straightedge. I am not talkin about Hardliners, because we all know they are full of shit. But I am talking about peolpe who let Straightedge seperate them from everything else except Straightedge. People who dont support bands unless they are Straightedge. And people who dont havng out with other people unless they are Striaghtedge. Thats bullshit because Straightedge is something for yourself and not to seperate everyone else. And not supporting a band just because they are not an edge band is the stuppidist lamest excuse for unity that I have ever seen. Thats making Straightedge your fist priority before hardcore music. To me that makes me think that they are better than everyone else. When nobody is better than anybody. Wether you havn't taken a sip of beer in 10 years, or wether you drink like of fish, your still a hardcore kid first and foremost. |