Evil is a point of view!

Touching upon a subject like "Goth subculture" ain't the easiest thing to do. The more i went into studying it, more i felt the urge inside me to be one :P. [I'll keep a pinch of humor in this post to make it fun reading :D]

First of all, they are not at all gloomy-dloomy people. As a matter of fact, this world seems boring to them. The just want their privacy or can be quoted as "Goths are people with 'Fuck Off Bitch' signboard for everyone". They are not interested in talks like how much you got wasted last night, nor in how much you smoked and neither in with which slut you slept last night. They have very much different perception towards clothing, art, music and aesthetics. This might be due to their upbringing or their specific taste. It is very difficult for a person listening to Saliva/Megadeth from childhood to switch to Justin Beiber :P. Oops..wrong example, any sane person won't listen to Beiber anyway :D. Some people just don't like pop, blues genre [simple as that]. Not everyone like The Gap.

One of the common things said about goths is that they are "attention seeker". Sorry to break the myth but the truth is that Goths are really smart people. Their clothing works on reverse psychology. It is kinda defense mechanism for them from this stupid world. If they wear skulls and bones on them, it is quite obvious you will never try to mess with them :P. And unfortunately if you did, my friend, you will be simply ignored. These are the people most open to criticism [right or wrong] because when you choose to go off main stream, you are mentally prepared to take the criticism. It is just that people get so busy in calling them "attention seekers" that they miss out the crux of this culture.

Some features commonly observed in gothic culture are:

• Unique art, music and literature [I can testify to this from my personal experience :P]
• black clothing, piercing , light makeup
• Wearing symbols like Christian cross
• Very loving, caring, pacifistic and tolerant. [Whateva they do, they do it at extreme...be it color or be it art..If they love you...they gonna love you with everything they have...one man/woman people :D]

People turn into this subculture because they might like to be left alone or in other words, their thinking might not be very coherent with you. But most of the turn-out to this culture is because they find this culture a mirror to reflect their feelings. They have a fascination for death. They try to find a different way of thinking about life, like trying to find beauty in life, pain and death. It's all a quest for immortality. :)

In a nutshell, this discussion can be concluded as
"Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him"