The Global Phenomenon of EMO.

-Emo- seems to have gained much popularity as a relatively trendy term among my peers and many worldwide (so I ignorantly presume).

I have pondered long and hard over my distate for the term and I have come up with a couple of reasons.

Firstly, I do not like over-emotional, self-indulgent, self-pitying states of mind, where we wallow in one another's pathos and overwhelming sense of emotion. Of course in saying this I take it that I could be wholly and completely wrong about exactly what the term -emo- encompasses and means to different people and I shall accept rebuke for that. But simply said, I just don't like the idea of collective pensiveness.

Secondly, I am of the view that the term over-generalizes and makes trifle of something that is in actual fact, very powerful. I must first qualify that I only speak from observation and not from experience and therefore I can be entirely wrong. Continuing nonetheless, the term -emo- is oft-used whenever anyone is in a pensive mood, or is contemplating the status of his life, friends etc etc. I believe in the power of these thoughts because they are indicative of what we call introspection. Introspection is not to be trifled away by slapping on a generic, derogatory term, -emo-. My opinion is that, the term -emo- reduces these retrospective thoughts to mere flighty musings and prevents them from going further to effect actual change. Of course this is the way I feel as regards my own life, if I were to constantly profess that I am in an -emo- mood whenever my mind gets to thinking about my life etc. Other people who actually indulge in the usage of this term may feel contrary to the way I do and I am not trying to generalize experiences.

All in all, I may appear rather nitpick-ey in making all these detailed observations when it's actually not even a cause for concern BUT. Haha it's ok I don't care.