Black Veil Brides: A Short Story

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“Life goes on… whether you choose to move on and take a chance in the unknown. Or stay behind, locked in the past thinking of what you could’ve been.”-Unknown. I find my past to be full of struggle, being bullied, stabbed with pencils that left scars. Finding out six years ago, I was going to die. Then dealing with depression, anorexia, bulimia and cutting. However, this year, I have grow. I developed seizures as a side effect to what had happened, yet knowing I have a chance in life. I want to give a message that you must “never give in and never back down, stand up for what you believe in, even if that means standing alone.”-Andy Biersack from Black Veil Brides. There is always color in the dark, you just have to let is show, even in the …show more content…
If we have our feet pointed forwards and our heads looking back, why should we look back? Yet when I look back, my mandala shows that I still grieve, my past is the past and it made me who I am. The roses in the tear of blood is representing being proud of myself. I have come a long way from where I was in Greeley to her in Fort Collins. I could have turned out as a thug and “ratchet” with a child. No… I am a student at Fort Collins High School who has the best grades in my life time, is going to go to college and I actually have true friends. Life is long and it’s the longest run in our lives yet. The blood with roses is how I am proud and I will accomplish anything in my future that life and death through at …show more content…
Life is infinite, so why not use an infinity symbol for the last symbol...friends. Every person in the world at least has a friend, or someone they care about. When growing up, I always thought life was a straight road with just a line that you walk alone. For, in elementary, I was alone with only one friend, the bully and bullied, then one day it changed. I walked into Boltz Middle School and during a time. I developed my own “gang,” I was the leader who followed and had followers, we were a family. Bryanna, Katie, Tyhan, Alexis, and Seth. They are the ones I will call infinite. It connects every part of me. They help me with my dreams, comfort my past and are the family that I never had outside my other

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