What is Emo

From an article entitled "Finding Emo: It Eludes a Real Definition". There's a lot of confusion about emotions and how to manage them. Being 'emotional' is not a bad thing. Handling emotions in destructive ways - to self or others - is.

This is a disturbing article.

Finding emo is rough, if you 're older. On the one hand, it 's so well known that if you run "emo " on the Google search engine, you 'll find 50.3 million listings. Compare that to, for example, 8.16 million for "Jesus Christ " or 1.94 million for "bill of rights. "

That 's perhaps not surprising; according to a survey conducted by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, the average age of the most active creators of Internet-content is 25. Emo seems to skew far younger than that, reaching down even into middle school.

On the other hand, we asked adults if they knew what emo was. We asked school psychologists, area high school and middle school counseling staffs, experts at the UW-Madison School of Education, and the Madison-based Briarpatch youth crisis intervention service. Some had heard of emo. No one could even define it.

This sort of mindset can come from old patterns, even from karma. Ways you have learned to manage emotions in the past, or past-lives. If you are stuck, depressed, and feeling hopeless, it may be old patterns that you have inherited that a reading and a review of your astrological chart can reveal.

From the article: http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/entertainment/index.php?ntid=266804

"It means the manifestation of sadness and pain, " she says. "Everybody feels it. Everybody is emo. "

There are better ways to deal with sadness and pain. This is a disturbing article, there's no question about it.