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i'm am eldergoth who used to be quite well-known in my local big-city scene along with my ex, but i decided it was time to go. the stagnation and decay were starting to show, and it the odor it produced was impossible to mistake or ignore. so my companion and i bought a house and moved to the mountains, to an old mining town of barely 200 people, and we've never been happpier.
i'm still 'dark on the inside' as i was before there were such a label as 'goth', but it was nice to step away from the drama and artifice and just be able to *be* and live freely, instead of the constant drain that being a part of the preening pageantry that was required to mingle in city-circles. not to mention dealing with literally millions of small-minded people who didn't want to take the time to learn, only to scorn. labels aren't used here, where we are now.
here there are amazing, haunting (and haunted) historic cemeteries, buildings and homes, and natural beauty everywhere, and friendly, non-judgmental people...so different than a glass and steel metropolis with only small pockets of what i found truly pleasing to my senses, and fetid air filled with pollution and epithets. if i sound a bit sour, mayhaps i am. i definitely became jaded.
thanks for creating this community...it will be interesting to follow and see if there are others like me and mine, who left. or ones who wish to move to a 'big place' and see what it's all about.
whether to be small fish in a big pond, or big fish in small ponds...it's all about choice. :)
to all, dark greetings, and be well.
i'm still 'dark on the inside' as i was before there were such a label as 'goth', but it was nice to step away from the drama and artifice and just be able to *be* and live freely, instead of the constant drain that being a part of the preening pageantry that was required to mingle in city-circles. not to mention dealing with literally millions of small-minded people who didn't want to take the time to learn, only to scorn. labels aren't used here, where we are now.
here there are amazing, haunting (and haunted) historic cemeteries, buildings and homes, and natural beauty everywhere, and friendly, non-judgmental people...so different than a glass and steel metropolis with only small pockets of what i found truly pleasing to my senses, and fetid air filled with pollution and epithets. if i sound a bit sour, mayhaps i am. i definitely became jaded.
thanks for creating this community...it will be interesting to follow and see if there are others like me and mine, who left. or ones who wish to move to a 'big place' and see what it's all about.
whether to be small fish in a big pond, or big fish in small ponds...it's all about choice. :)
to all, dark greetings, and be well.