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Music / Life Here's One of My Punk Stories, Now Share Yours
Posted by Megan Seling on Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 4:40 PM
Over the last few days I've had some amazing conversations with friends about what punk means to them—the positive impact it's had in their lives, the people they've met because of it, the people they are because of it.
Now I want to hear yours, too.
This isn't to prove anyone right or wrong. This isn't to declare anything bullshit or not. This is just to share some stories.
I'll go first—here's just one of many:
When I was barely a teenager, growing up in a suburb of a suburb, I was, as so many do, existing on a diet of pure self-loathing. I was into "grunge" music—Nirvana, Alice in Chains, even Candlebox—and since a lot of that music was filled with even more self-loathing, it didn't really help my misery. (It comforted me, sure—I still love Nirvana—but it was hard for me, a 14-year-old high school freshman, to feel 100% comfortable with the lyrics to "Rape Me," for example. My love for Nirvana grew stronger later in life, when I was less intimidated by them.)
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