I have been completely neglecting this blog because of really personal issues but it’s back!
submit your stories! Who saved your life?
Before I started to really get into Motionless in White, I was incredibly self-conscious. One of my biggest fears was being judged and ridiculed for being the way that I am. It effected me so much that I actually tried to change who I was just to please my family and ‘society’ as a whole and I was absolutely miserable. That feeling led to an intense period of depression where I never felt good enough and I basically didn’t want to live anymore.
I had liked Motionless for a little over a year, but I never really got into them. When I did, it changed my life. After listening to them enough I fell in love with the music, and like most fans I wanted to know more about the band. I started watching some interviews on youtube and I was amazed with their message. They preach about not being ashamed to be yourself and that appearances don’t matter, there’s more than what meets the eye. Everyone is different and you should embrace the person that you are. Keep an open mind and accept people for the way they are. If someone loves you, they’ll love you no matter how you choose to express yourself. Most importantly, you shouldn’t care what other people think of you as long as you’re happy with yourself.
Since discovering MIW, I have without a doubt become a more confident person. I basically stopped caring what other people think and I’ve stopped trying to please other people and started doing things to please myself. I am definitely a happier person now that they are in my life. My depression has not completely gone away, but for the most part I am much, much happier. If I hadn’t discovered Motionless in White, I would not be the person I am, rather and empty shell of who I desperately want to be, and I can not thank them enough for that.
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that’s so cool c: thanks for sharing! <3
Anonymous asked: omfg i am so excited for sunday i get to see my babies and hopefully meet them omg and this inspired me to thank them personally!!
Aw <3 good :D
if you do you should tell us what happened :D
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Hi. So, I have a lot to say. I’m really sorry, but it means so much to me, more than anything else in my life actually. Thirty seconds to mars is the band that changed my life. I have never felt so included and so loved and so happy other than when I listen to them. And trust me, not many things can make me happy.. barely anything can actually.
I deal with depression, and nothing can ever get me out of my rut. However, I finally found something. Thirty Seconds to Mars. Their music is the only thing that breaks down my wall, and allows me to believe I will be okay, and that there is hope. Mars is the only thing that has the power to make me happy, and that is a hard thing to do, like i said earlier. They make me like myself a little bit more. They allow me to live again.
This is the first time i have ever felt i belong, and that i am in a place i really can be myself. I don’t know why it has such an effect on me, but it does. Since I found them, I have listened to nothing else, literally. For six months now, I have not listened to anything else. And I love that. I cant explain the feeling they bring me. I feel on top of the world when I hear them, I feel free.
Lastly, they give me the hope that I can be what I want to be, and that I can be myself. What anybody says does not matter, it does not matter what anyone thinks of me, I am who I am. Their music makes me happy, and that is all i can say. If i didn’t find them, and my second family, the echelon, I dont know where I would be. The echelon makes me feel included, and not alone. I feel safe around them, and feel I can be myself.
So, their music has changed my life. I don’t know how to explain the effect they’ve had on my life, its only portrayed to the people who feel the same way, who understand. We all know there are no words to explain what their music brings us, we all just understand each other. Its something special, something real. Its life changing. Thirty Seconds to Mars changed my life, and they especially saved my life.
Sorry that is scattered, but they really mean a lot. Because of Mars, I believe. I dream, I hope. And on December 7, 2011, when I attended my first Mars concert, I made a promise to Jared Leto, which he told all of us to keep. I promised him I would make my dreams a reality, and I will. They saved my life.
This is amazing <3
Stay strong and never give up <3
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How has music changed your life for the better?
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You’re not alone <3
we came as romans has probably changed my life in the most incredible way i remember being back in like 8th grade and listening to them for the first time i fell in love with them just with the positive message that they give!!and that everything will be okay i just need to keep moving forward with my life because that is all i can do i shouldn’t dwell in the past because i have so much more to look forward too in my life they also thought me that im not alone that there are many other people in the world probably going through similar things as me and i shouldn’t feel alone and when i do i know i can just listen to them and feel better <3 ( yeah this is kinda short but i have soo much to write but i really dot want to just ramble) “we are not meaningless”<3
Thanks for sharing c: <3
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Anonymous asked: who is that person on the hospital bed and what happened to him?
It’s Austin Carlile when he had to have heart surgery a while back.
Eh…it’s kinda long :\ Sorry
Ever since 7th grade, my mentality and just overall well-being started going downhill. Last year, my sophomore year in high school, was the worst year by far. I almost lost my sister in a drunk driving accident. I was molested by my “friend” at school, I constantly felt alone, and had my heart stomped on by multiple people, friends, and family. I felt so disconnected from reality and people all the time. I started hurting myself and contemplated suicide and would just dream of all the different ways I could kill myself. I would steal alcohol and try to drink away my problems. I took a handful of my dad’s antidepressants (which didn’t do anything at all) and tried using them to make me feel better. I remember one night when I was about to give up completely. I typed up a suicide note for my parents. While I was on the computer, I logged onto Facebook and was about to delete my account. I saw this picture on my newsfeed that was posted by some girl I knew and it really caught my attention for some reason. I clicked on it to get a better view of it. It was 4 guys making silly faces at the camera in front of a graffitied wall; the caption of the photo read “Pierce the Veil”. Curious as to who they were, I searched their name on YouTube and, of course, Caraphernelia was the first video to pop up. I watched it for a bit, really liked the song, and downloaded Selfish Machines. I sat there in bed, listening to the whole album. I actually listened to them this time and broke down crying. I never cried so hard before in my life. All of these emotions just hit me. After going months without feeling anything at all, it was a lot to take in. During that whole mental breakdown, I felt like someone understood me and knew what I was going through, especially when I heard the songs Bulletproof Love and Stay Away From My Friends. Those two songs described exactly what I was going through. The lyrics and instrumentals were the most beautiful thing I had ever heard in my entire life and I felt happy for the first time in years. The suicide note to my parents I had written, I tore up and threw away. Ever since that night, I haven’t gone one day without listening to Pierce the Veil. I used to listen to Selfish Machines and A Flair for the Dramatic 10 times a day for the longest time because everything about those two albums was just perfect.
Over the next few months, things still hadn’t gotten any better around me. I was still depressed, but at least I now felt alive. I started hearing voices telling me to keep cutting, that I was worthless, meaningless, replaceable, and I should just kill myself. To quiet the voices and get rid of the mental/emotional pain and turn it into physical pain, I kept cutting myself. I eventually stopped after Vic told me he was proud of how far I had come and how their music was giving me strength to carry on. I didn’t want to disappoint him and the others. I started expressing my emotions through song writing and playing guitar instead of cutting.
Jaime, Vic, Mike and Tony, aka Pierce the Veil, have helped me achieve and learn so much. Those 4 boys make up who I am. Jaime taught me how to smile and laugh again, Mike taught me how to say fuck you to those who hurt me and not care what others say, Vic inspired me to write songs of my own and let out my emotions in a healthier way, and Tony inspired me to pick up the guitar.
I still have a lot of ups and downs and still hear voices. Music is the only thing now that quiets them and makes me truly happy. PTV is my inspiration and those boys are my heroes. It’s my dream to tour with them and to thank them all for what they’ve done for me. Because of them, I found a reason to get up each morning and have something I want to live for and achieve. I want to help people through music, just like Pierce the Veil helped me.
Oh my, this one of the most inspiring I’ve gotten so far.
Thank you so much for sharing this <3
Stay strong.
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