i used to be straight edge.

people always ask if i'm going to be straight edge forever. i guess i can't answer that. and i think thats okay. but i do know that i dont care about drinking a glass of wine at my wedding. so stop asking. IUTBSE is here for you to tell your story to anyone who wants to hear it.

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Apr 8th, 2009 @ 8:32 pm

Marky Connolly . On Impact! So I first was introduced to the term straight edge from my brother when i was 5th grade or something when I didn’t understand why he was drawing all these x’s on his hands. I really didn’t think anything of it obviously because i was like 9 or 10 so all i cared about was spongebob and macaroni and cheese (not much of that has changed). Since the beginning of high school I went to parties and saw kids being absolute idiots, and i didn’t really understand what the point was. Some of my good friends getting alcohol poisoning and passing out on the regular was some reason an okay thing to do. Before I really got into straight edge I knew that drinking, getting sick, and being an idiot was definitely nothing I wanted to be a part of.I was always into bands like saves the day and new found glory and other assorted pop punk, but it wasn’t until spring of my sophmore year that I started getting into hardcore. My brother used to play bane, this is hell, and have heart records in my house and I just wouldn’t get it and wrote it off. But one day I took an cd from shauns room called the things we carry by have heart and and stupid as this may sound I never connected with an album so quickly ever. That album is front to back preaching straight edge and I loved every second. I became really angry after a terrible, terrible situation with a terrible girl and hardcore help me feed that anger, and it ruled. From there I continued to listen to bands such as bane, champion, verse, etc. and in the process of learning about straight edge I developed a strong love for hardcore.So now I’m 18 and a senior in high school and have been straight edge for about 2 years and I think it’s the best decision I’ve made yet. It’s a great feeling to know that kids have the same ideas and make the same decisions you do and dig the same music you do, it truly does feel like you’re a part of something. I get into enough trouble on my own as it is I don’t need to worry about getting caught drinking at some kids house or something stupid, and it is just nothing that intrests me at all.Toomey will probably make fun of me for this

Marky Connolly . On Impact!

So I first was introduced to the term straight edge from my brother when i was 5th grade or something when I didn’t understand why he was drawing all these x’s on his hands. I really didn’t think anything of it obviously because i was like 9 or 10 so all i cared about was spongebob and macaroni and cheese (not much of that has changed). 
Since the beginning of high school I went to parties and saw kids being absolute idiots, and i didn’t really understand what the point was. Some of my good friends getting alcohol poisoning and passing out on the regular was some reason an okay thing to do. Before I really got into straight edge I knew that drinking, getting sick, and being an idiot was definitely nothing I wanted to be a part of.
I was always into bands like saves the day and new found glory and other assorted pop punk, but it wasn’t until spring of my sophmore year that I started getting into hardcore. My brother used to play bane, this is hell, and have heart records in my house and I just wouldn’t get it and wrote it off. But one day I took an cd from shauns room called the things we carry by have heart and and stupid as this may sound I never connected with an album so quickly ever. That album is front to back preaching straight edge and I loved every second. I became really angry after a terrible, terrible situation with a terrible girl and hardcore help me feed that anger, and it ruled. From there I continued to listen to bands such as bane, champion, verse, etc. and in the process of learning about straight edge I developed a strong love for hardcore.
So now I’m 18 and a senior in high school and have been straight edge for about 2 years and I think it’s the best decision I’ve made yet. It’s a great feeling to know that kids have the same ideas and make the same decisions you do and dig the same music you do, it truly does feel like you’re a part of something. I get into enough trouble on my own as it is I don’t need to worry about getting caught drinking at some kids house or something stupid, and it is just nothing that intrests me at all.
Toomey will probably make fun of me for this

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