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[sXe 4 lyf]

I was thinking, why do a lot of people choose to become straight edge? I mean I know that some people on here aren't straight edge they just follow the same sort of beliefs but I was just curious as to why people did it?

Because I know for me personally it took something really major and really devastating for me to get the point of it, but yeah, I was wondering if it is like that with everyone?

[linsee]

nothing devastating happened to cause me to. It just made sense with my beliefs and lifestyle. I remember when I was a teenager and first found out what straight edge was at a show, and playing with the idea a long time. I didn't ever call myself straight edge until I was 100% sure it was something I could commit to.

[sXe 4 lyf]

nothing devastating happened to cause me to. It just made sense with my beliefs and lifestyle. I remember when I was a teenager and first found out what straight edge was at a show, and playing with the idea a long time. I didn't ever call myself straight edge until I was 100% sure it was something I could commit to.

well I guess you couldnt really call it devastating for me, I mean it was sad and it was hard and stuff but I was never really devastated beyond a couple of days, I never really drank before it happened, but then my uncle died of liver cancer and that really scared me, so I stopped drinking but didnt ever consider being edge because I still thought one or two drinks wouldnt hurt, then like three months later my cousin died in a car accident after he had a couple of drinks so I was kind of like "no this so isnt worth it" and havent drank since.

[linsee]

well I guess you couldnt really call it devastating for me, I mean it was sad and it was hard and stuff but I was never really devastated beyond a couple of days, I never really drank before it happened, but then my uncle died of liver cancer and that really scared me, so I stopped drinking but didnt ever consider being edge because I still thought one or two drinks wouldnt hurt, then like three months later my cousin died in a car accident after he had a couple of drinks so I was kind of like "no this so isnt worth it" and havent drank since.

What about the hardcore aspect of it? Can't really be straight edge without the hardcore.

[sXe 4 lyf]

What about the hardcore aspect of it? Can't really be straight edge without the hardcore.

I listen to it most of the time, I mean I am no good with names and stuff but once I learnt about straight edge and decided that I could do it and that it suited me, I started listening to minor threat and Gorilla biscuits and stuff, I mean I still know relatively nothing in the grand scheme of things but I really like the music. Earth crisis and I think it is damaged is good, my only problem is I am kind of out in the sticks so I am really away from anything. I still listen to some other music but I like the sort of music straight edge has and it makes me think.

[xXxFerCm93xXx]

well, when I was young I used to say that i would not ever drink, and people started to say that it was impossible, but I continue saying that. Then, two years ago, I was looking at the internet information about wrestlers and I found CM Punk, and then I read the term straight edge, I click on It and started to read, I continue looking places about it but here, in Spain, It´s nearly dead, so anybody kwen wath was that. I started to listening some harcorde bands and then, at last, I found this for after looking in a lot of pages. I read the post for some days and I join it.

[xAdamSx]

I think a lot of people have began to follow straight edge due to either their own poor experiences involving drink & drugs or their friends/family, it's a shocking event that caused them to turn to Edge. That wasn't the case with me, I found I was hating the way my friends had started to turn to the drinking culture in this country, and I hated it. I've never been drunk and never will be, and have never touched drugs or tobacco products. For me, straight edge fit my beliefs and gave me an outlet, plus it led me to hardcore, which I now like. I went in a bit backwards, as I discovered straight edge (admittedly through CM Punk, the wrestler-and I was aware of Punk and straight edge long before deciding to commit to it) before getting into hardcore. I did a lot of reading up on sXe, it's origins and the like, and eventually decided I wanted to commit myself to it.

Finding Straight Edge and Hardcore has given me an outlet for my beliefs, and it has certainly helped me affirm myself in my life, if that makes sense.

[sXe 4 lyf]

I think a lot of people have began to follow straight edge due to either their own poor experiences involving drink & drugs or their friends/family, it's a shocking event that caused them to turn to Edge. That wasn't the case with me, I found I was hating the way my friends had started to turn to the drinking culture in this country, and I hated it. I've never been drunk and never will be, and have never touched drugs or tobacco products. For me, straight edge fit my beliefs and gave me an outlet, plus it led me to hardcore, which I now like. I went in a bit backwards, as I discovered straight edge (admittedly through CM Punk, the wrestler-and I was aware of Punk and straight edge long before deciding to commit to it) before getting into hardcore. I did a lot of reading up on sXe, it's origins and the like, and eventually decided I wanted to commit myself to it.

Finding Straight Edge and Hardcore has given me an outlet for my beliefs, and it has certainly helped me affirm myself in my life, if that makes sense.

yeah for me straight edge/hardcore has made me ....... i dont know, I guess look at myself more closely like everything that I was doing I never really viewed as bad until those two incidents, and I have always listened to hardcore sorts of music because I can most relate to it (i dont know why) and then the straight edge part of it just seemed to fit in with what I had decided to do, because whether straight edge existed or not i would still not be drinking or doing drugs, it has given me something to believe in and people that understand what I am doing and dont question whether it si stupid or not because they all do it too, if that makes sense?



well, when I was young I used to say that i would not ever drink, and people started to say that it was impossible, but I continue saying that. Then, two years ago, I was looking at the internet information about wrestlers and I found CM Punk, and then I read the term straight edge, I click on It and started to read, I continue looking places about it but here, in Spain, It´s nearly dead, so anybody kwen wath was that. I started to listening some harcorde bands and then, at last, I found this for after looking in a lot of pages. I read the post for some days and I join it.

yeah I found out about edge kind of through CM punk too, but yeah I just decided it was for me i guess :)

[CarlaRant]

I'm an addict and I love hardcore. Coincidentally the people that helped keep me straight were involved in the scene. I quickly learned about sxe and knew that it was how I wanted to live my life. Particularly, I wanted to live as an example for my little sister since we didn't have many role models growing up.