World Goth Day 2019

2019-05-22

I don't have any goth friends. I have had a few goth acquaintances over the years. The bottom line is I feel it's more of a fashion statement — although some practice a decidedly wiccan subculture with spells and other crap they sometimes take to heart and truly believe influences the world around them.

By and large though I have felt it all to be primarily a show mechanism to bring attention to those individuals who obviously were insufficiently breast fed while infants ... or something there abouts.

Today is World Goth Day. There is an "official" site which says it is "a day where the goth scene gets to celebrate its own being, and an opportunity to make its presence known to the rest of the world."

Originating in the United Kingdom in 2009 it was a subculture vehicle which blossomed into it's own identity for indeed, there are a lot of practicing goths on the planet. This tradition has a continuum with what are now international boundaries revealing much about who we are as people ... and those many 'hings' which become our 'things'.

In 2019 there will be some 50 events internationally celebrating World Goth Day.

I think its fine. Everybody needs something. This is the goth's thing.