Saved by My Chemical Romance

Hi, my name is Danet, and if you could, I wanted to share my story with anyone that would listen. Thanks for taking the time to read this.

I’m 13 years old MCR defiantly saved my life more than once. When I was younger, my sister used to listen to MCR and I remember that the first time I ever heard them was when I watched the Helena music video with my sister. I loved it even thought I was so young. I remember watching a lot of MCR videos with her. But after a while, she got into other bands and I forgot about MCR. After all, I wasn’t old enough to really know what they were talking about when they sang songs like Famous Last Words and I’m Not Okay. I had a pretty okay life through 5^th grade. My parents fought a lot though and my dad treated my sister like shit. One night, my parents got into a huge fight. And I mean huge. The cops ended up coming to our house. The whole time my sister sat in my room with me while I cried. She stuck by me and I loved her for it. My parents decided on a divorce and it hit me hard because I was so close to my dad. My mum, sister, and I ended up moving out of state to live with my grandparents. Now, at first, everything was okay. Yeah, I had things like “Emo” and “Freak” thrown at me, but I tried to ignore it. When I went into middle school, things got really bad. I was constantly called Emo, freak, and weird, anything you can think of. People constantly asked if I was emo and I always said no. But it just got to be too much and I started cutting myself around 7^th grade. I just felt so alone and just plain scared. No one understood me or even wanted to try. My sister shut herself up and pushed everyone away, my so called dad acted like he didn’t give a shit and never paid child support, never talked to us, and went on vacations to Italy with the money that was supposed to be feeding us. This is where My Chem really starts to come into my life. I was looking through Fuse one day and saw a loaded episode on My Chemical Romance. I remembered the name and thought: Hey, I’ll listen to these guys again. So I recorded it and the next day watched it. It went through the song Welcome To The Black Parade and I remembered that. Then it started playing Famous Last Words and I remembered that one too so I started kind of humming along. Then it got to the chorus. I just stopped singing. I just sat there staring at the screen. It felt like I was hearing the song for the first time. I can’t even describe how it made me feel. I just cried. Because, for once, I felt like somebody understood me, I felt like somebody cared. I didn’t feel alone. And since then, I stopped cutting myself and I stopped all of self-harm. I made a promise. I literally said aloud, “I swear to you Gerard, I will never hurt myself again. No matter what.” Now MCR helps me through all of my hard situations. No matter how bad it is, all I have to do is think about something Gee, Frank, Bob, Mikey, or Ray said and I feel so much better. My friends turned to the ‘popular’ life and called me names, I thought of what Gee said “Hey Girls, you are beautiful.” I felt better. My grandparents turned out to be something I hate most (Homophobias), and I almost did something I would regret, but I thought about the song Teenagers and I just walked away. My mum started to try and change who I was, I just thought of how MCR wasn’t afraid to be MCR and I felt better. In a way, MCR had taught me all of those cliché life rules. Don’t do drugs, violence is not the answer, all of it I learned from MCR. And I’m proud of it. One of my friends asked me what I want to do before I die, my reply: “I want to meet My Chemical Romance and say ‘thank you’.” And I swear, one day I’m going to meet them and tell them thank you for giving me my life back.