#maybe my purpose in life is to romanticize the mundane and love the ostracized

[secretlyofthefeywild]

i went to an emo pride nite (emo rave but make it gay) and apart from the fact that i naturally always feel the safest in alt spaces, i felt so happy and safe inside that bar. it was chalk full of weirdo queer adults (21+ event) and you could tell that all of us were the kids that got bullied in school. the kids that fell through the cracks in society, just for daring to be ourselves. the kids that got carrots thrown at them in the hallways. the kids that always sat alone. the butt of the jokes and the cause of the whispers. but we found our community. we found other people that had been ostracized for that same reasons as us. we didn't learn eachothers names, barely even exchanged words that weren't song lyrics or compliments of outfits. but we all understood that we were bonded. in that stuffy bar, we were all the same and the entire world could fuck off. maybe some of us live like that all the time. maybe some of us have to go home to a life that doesn't resect our existence. but for those few hours, nothing matter but our love. our love for music, our love for eachother, and our love for ourselves.