What MCR means to me.

So many people think MCR fans are faking their fandom, that they don't
take it seriously and it has turned MCR into some kind of joke to many
people. It frustrates me so much when people bash them because they
mean so much to me. It's like attacking a close friend of mine, even
though they are not friends of mine at all. People ask me how a band
that makes music that they don't like could ever possibly save
someone's life. Well, believe it or not, there are people who like
things that you don't and it means the world to them, so step outside
yourself for one measly second and take a look at how other people
feel, not just through your own narrow-minded scope.

To put
things plainly, my life was going nowhere fast. I had been a fan of MCR
for a while before they saved my life. It wasn't until I graduated high
school that my depression became so bad that I was suicidal. My life
was going nowhere fast. My family life was awful and was getting worse,
my faith was all but gone, I was in a school wasting my grades, money,
and time with something that I didn't even want to do, all for someone
else. I ran away from problems, ignoring them until they became too
hard to bare. I was letting my family control my life and I didn't like
the way it was going, so much that I was sure being dead was better
than the life that I was going to end up living. I needed some kind of
support, someone who understood what I was going through and to tell me
that it could get better.

Enter MCR.

My friends were
helping a lot too, so not all of the credit can go to MCR for saving
me. MCR's music just made me feel better. I watched Life On The Murder
Scene so many times because Gerard's story hit so close to home that I
was instantly sucked in. I looked up to him in so many ways, he had
overcome so much to be what he is today and he's happy! Their songs
showed me hope, and helped me find the strength and courage to face my
situations, and take control of my life. They helped me see what I
wanted to do and that it was okay to be the 'real me.'

Here I
am, alive and in college, trying to achieve my dreams and goals. I
honestly don't think that I would be here at all if it were not for my
friends and MCR. My family life is still bad, if not worse than before,
I'm trying to pay my own way through college and trying to move out
into an apartment with my friends. Life is about to get much more
difficult, but I know that things will get better, that not everything
is as hopeless as I see it sometimes.

So, thank you my best friends.

Thank you My Chemical Romance.

I
draw strength and courage from all of you every day, every time I feel
depressed, every time I feel like giving up, you're there, you always
will be. I could not ask for more in life.

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