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23 reviewsYou wrote me. You told me how they saved you. Here's the first of many.
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How Did They Save YOU- Onto the stories
(#) E-JayLovesGerard 2009-07-21
I wouldnt say they saved me... more like put me on the right track again. I used to be the pop girl. Like, when i was under the age of 7, i listened to KoRn, Silverchair, Rob Zombie, all that with my family. then i turned it down for.... arghhh! Backstreet Boys, Brittany Spears, Nikki Webster. All that.
After hearing I'm Not Okay in year 4, i turned back to my roots, slowly but look, im here and loving it :D
I'm not suicidal, at one point i was and i just listened to I'm Not Okay over and over... i dont know why but it helped, obviously.
anyways, im gonna stop rembling and go back to writing Love Sucks :D
xox EHow Did They Save YOU- Onto the stories
(#) jajajajaime16 2009-07-21
1) Helped me realize that I needed to get help and get away from my abusive dad...nice, isn't it?
2) Helped me get over it even long after he was completely removed from the equation
3) Gave me amazing music!
That's about it...
-JHow Did They Save YOU- Onto the stories
(#) InsertWittyNameHere 2009-07-21
I wouldn't say they like saved me or whatever. But they did have a great impact on my life.
I mean a few years ago I was, lets put it as, "Popular", you know what I mean, short slutty scirts, tight revealing clothes, shitty music, dumbass boyfriends, the whole shebang really.
I even mocked the "emo" & "goth" kids. WHich I'm greatly ashamed of. I believed every one loved my and wanted to be me, I was pretty much "on top of the world."
It was christmas, anyway I received my first MyChem CD, It was ThreeCheers(: My cousin had bought it for me actually. But once my mother saw the cover she glared at my cousin and hid it imeditately. I was pissed by all means. I was curious because It was "Forbiddon" aha.
So once I had found it (under my mothers bed in a shoebox) I went straight to my room to play it. At first I hated it. I didn't even give the thing a chance. Just discarded it into my sock drawer x]
I went back to my popular life once school started again. But I began to view things differently. I realised that my friends wern't actually my friends, but backstabbing bitchs. I no longer found the clothes I wore appealing or comfortable for that matter. aha.
I went and listened to the CD again. And I loved it. I was addicted I listened to it everyday. I changed my style and found new friends. I'm much happier in my life now and actually enjoy it(apart from my mother she threw a fit, or lots of fits.)
Thanks to MCR I'm a better person, well I hope so, and I enjoy where I am In life.
Sorry for my long and boring rant(:
But it's nice to actually get it out. I've never actually told this to anyone.
xoxo
M
Thanks for listening/reading. :]How Did They Save YOU- Onto the stories
(#) mcr_girl_13 2009-07-21
1. I was preppy and unhappy.
2. It caused me to go to cutting myself.
3. I became anorexic cuz i felt i didnt fit in with the popular girls.
4. I had 2 friends that were into punk/rock bands, and they showed me MCR.
5. I listened to the lyrics and understood their message and saw in the interviews and stuff how they tell u how wrong it is.
6. I fell in love with it.
7. Preppy girls hated me for it.
8. I now am happy. No more cutting, starving myself. And now going out with one of the boys who showed it to me :)How Did They Save YOU- Onto the stories
(#) wheresyourheart 2009-07-23
this is a very good idea!
so i guess they sorta "saved my life",
not drastically like i was an alchoholic or was like taking lots of pills or anything, but as other people already said, they did impact me.
it's kind of personal and i don't really ever tell people about like shitty things that happen in my life, because i don't want pity points or whatever.
but for the sake of your story i'm willing to share.
SO
way back in eighth grade i was a pretty happy girl and i had so many friends.
midway through the year i started dating this guy named Eric, who was a year younger than me, and he was PERFECT. he had the long brown hair, he was really tall (like 6 feet), attractive, played football/basketball/baseball, so my parents loved him. and everything was so great.
then after school got out he started acting more distant and i started feeling really sad that he was going to break up with me. instead of me just doing it, i waited around, which made it worse because i was holding onto something that i didn't really have anymore.
then a week before my freshman year, we finally broke up.
it was the worst, hardest breakup i have ever been through.
what happened was, i went to his first or second football game, and it was an away game. (and my dad was his coach) we barely talked and at the end i gave him a note about how i felt like things were different.
that night i called and he "was busy" and said he'd call me later. he didn't call until the next day.
on the phone he didnt mention the whole note thing, so finally i brought it up and he was like "well we'll never see eachother" and kept bringing up that.
finally i just said "if you want to break up, just tell me please."
and that was that.
he said we would still be friends, and he lied.
all this leads up to how i became extremely anti-social and would cry a lot over like nothing. and it sounds so stupid because, i was only what, fourteen? but it was really bad.
im of course still not over eric, because i can't find a reason to hate him.
and i'm still sad a lot, but there's other things like how my dad is the biggest asshole and my little brother (who i used to be so close to) is turning into a douchebag just like him.
stuff all put together in my life has lead me to be suicidal at points.
for example, sophomore year, in the fall, i was really anit-social again and would think of ways to just get out of this life. i used to just sit next to my window and look outside while i thought of how life is useless because in the end i will just die and be dead, because i don't believe in religion (in my opinion its just something that a bunch of people made up to comfort themselves from the truth; that you die and then you rot and its nothingness)
i remember the one person i ever confided in was my friend michelle. it was midnight and i had slept over her house and ended up telling her how i feel so helpless. she told me to talk to my mom, i didn't.
SO mcr comes into the picture when,
one day i randomly got the life on the murder scene dvd, because i liked mcr.
i watched it and could just relate to them, and their music, and i took up guitar because of them.
AND I PRETTY MUCH FELL IN LOVE WITH THEM EVEN MORE.
whenever i'm feeling shitty i just put on my chem and play my guitar along, or lay in my bed and stare at the ceiling while i listen to them.
they're such a huge influence to me, and i look up most to frank because we're both vegitarian and are all for animal rights, and other stuff like that.
i just love them SO. MUCH. and my friends get all annoyed b/c i talk about them all the time.
they don't really know about how i feel
but i wish they did so i could say, "well, would you rather me talk about mcr, or sit here and think up a suicide plan?"
and the other thing with mcr is, how gerard and mikey have been through being suicidal and unhappy,
and now they're trying to help out teens that are feeling this way.
it makes me not want to do it, and i've become somewhat happier and i've stopped thinking about wanting to die.
it feels so wierd to type these thoughts out, because i never have before.
there's so much more to it but i dont want you to think i'm wierd for just dumping it all on you.
so i'll just stop now.
hopefully all of this kind of made sense... haHow Did They Save YOU- Onto the stories
(#) wheresyourheart 2009-07-23
oh sheesh that was really long.
i'm sorry
i started to rant a bit :/How Did They Save YOU- Onto the stories
(#) IeroMyHeroMCR 2009-07-23
yo hi love! Ok well MCR helped me get through hearing fighting/screaming/throwing things all night from my mom and bro. Plus they helped me get over my brothers drug use oh and he's drinking now (just found out the other day) he's 15 for gods sake. He's probably going to have to go to therapy now buttttt i won't rant cause you can just call me!!!!How Did They Save YOU- Onto the stories
(#) mildlyobsessed 2009-07-25
I remember when the black parade came out, how often that song played on the radio and on tv, and how all my friends hated it. i said i hated it too, just to fit in, but truthfully, i loved it.
i had always been slightly morbid and different, but tried to hide it from everyone, cos i wanted to fit in. it wasn't like i was popular or an outcast, i was just somewhere in the middle, but fighting to stay there. i was smart, but i tried to hide it so i wouldn't be a geek. i felt like life was a facade and that i was hiding myself. i became anorexic and depressed, quite badly, and my friends started hating me for it. one of them told me i was a 'horrible person' and i cut myself with a rusty old knife. it was at this point i realised that my friends shouldn't dictate my life and have such a major impact on me.
so, i began to cultivate my own personality. and it began with admitting i liked mcr.
they didn't save my life, but they enabled me to live my own life, instead of one dictated by societal norms.
i now have the opposite fashion and music tastes to my friends, and proudly get A+.
my friends have learnt to accept this, and, though they mock me mercilessly for it, they are still my friends.
i am proud of my difference, and more comfortable with myself now, and i thank mcr for being my catalyst.How Did They Save YOU- Onto the stories
(#) StupidMF 2009-07-29
They really didn't save my life. Just sort of shaped it, watching them on stage just made me realise what my dreams were and what I really wanted to make out of myself. Their songs seem to fit with every situation I encounter in my life, listening to them makes life seem more exciting. I don't know, their songs are perfect. They helped me feel better about my ex (who was obsessed with them too.) it gave me a nice feeling knowing that the band they love so much would probably hate a person like them. The whole band just have a great out-look on life. What else can I say, they've really affected me.How Did They Save YOU- Onto the stories
(#) whitereflections12 2009-08-04
This is a great idea, because MCR really have had such huge effects on so many peoples lives.
They saved me when I didn't even want it, really. It's kind of a long story but I'll summarize as best I can...
Basically, my senior year of high school I lost my best friend. I was treating her like shit, and I wasn't acting like myself in pretty much any other way either, and she was the only one that could have ever made me realize it. To do that, it pretty much took a slap in the face...she told me I wasn't myself and it hurt too much to be around me and she couldn't do it anymore. And it was then I realized what I'd been doing, but I had hurt her too much...she wouldn't listen to me or talk to me again, wouldn't give me another chance and I damn near went crazy trying to get her to forgive me. I went into an incredibly deep depression that lasted about a year, and a more lasting deep seated kinds of life altering depression that lasted about three years. I got to the point that I was going through life, but I was a mess on the inside. I had new friends and a lot of good things going on but I was still miserable. I didn't even really know how to be happy anymore, and I was sure I never would be again.
Still, I was doing better than I'd expected to ever do so I was ok with it, and I thought I was fine. Then, this past February, a series of really bad events happened that I won't go into, but there were about four really painful personal things that happened, the last of which was hearing that my ex-best friend STILL holds a grudge against me for everything that happened, that three years have passed and she's not any less angry or bitter than she ever was...and on top of the other things that had happened, that was more than I could take. I had always held out hope that we'd work things out someday, but that killed my hope which was pretty much the last thing I was hanging onto.
I had been suicidal once before, and I had promised her I'd never do that again, but after hearing that, it seemed like my promises to her didn't matter. I started cutting(something I had also done years before) and I was seriously considering suicide.
Meanwhile, just about a week before all this happened, I had started listening to MCR. I had heard Welcome To The Black Parade and Teenagers before and liked them but never been interested enough to get a CD. I heard Sharpest Lives, and that had been enough to push me into getting Black Parade. I started listening to it, and within the span of a day I realized it was the best music I'd ever heard in my life. Anyway, point being, as I was falling apart, I was also starting to listen to MCR...and in doing that, I went into it the way I do everything else I get into and I spent all my spare time on it. In the process of that, I started watching videos online, and listening to Gerard...
I was really out of touch with everything, there for a couple months, but MCR and Gerard in particular became my stabilizing force. One of my best friends was really, really worried about me but she knew she had no chance of getting through to me, but Gerard did. The first time I heard the whole "nothing is worth hurting yourself over, nothing is worth taking your life" speech, I knew it was everything I needed to hear, and that I needed to listen to him and get my life in order, but I didn't want to. I'd been messed up for so long I didn't want to be fixed.
But luckily, I have amazing friends who realized that was just what I needed, and when I tried to stop listening, they kept pushing MCR and Gee's amazing words back in my face until I did listen.
My life has totally turned around. Because of Gerard I stopped cutting, and I realized that even thinking about suicide is stupid and taking the easy way out. Because of him I was able to let the past go, and by following his lead I was able to pick myself back up. My whole life I've never had good self confidence, but I do now. His influence on my life goes from the big things like the fact that I'm not cutting or suicidal anymore to little things, like that fact that I was never good at speaking in front of a crowd but I can do it now no problem, because he taught me "Stand up fucking tall/Don't let them see your back and take my fucking hand and never be afraid again." And I'm not. Because of him, I'll never be afraid of anything ever again. I'm happy now, beyond happy. I never thought I would be able to say that again. I owe him more than my life; I owe him everything.
I know this was really really long, and I'm sorry, but I just feel so strongly about this...MCR was a Godsend, for me, and their music and Gerard's words in particular(though ALL of the guys mean something to me)have made all the difference in the world to me and to a lot of other people as well. There's no better legacy any band could ever hope to leave than that.
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