Green Day Saved Me

[Whatsername1533]

Ohh goddd, Green Day saving me, definatly.

Where the hell do I start? I guess from the beginning.

I used to live in Ma, then in late 04 we sold our house and drove cross country to live in Az. I was only 12 at the time and was terrified about going to a new school, Green Day helped me through that.

I think I was 13 when I cought my step mom smoking out of a bong in her room with my little sister in there asleep. The first person I told was my older and he said not to say anything. Then probably about a month later I found a bag of cocain out in the open. Again I told my brother and we confronted my dad about it, he told us it was crushed ritalin (lie), Green Day helped me through that.

My brother got fed up with my dad and step moms bullshit and moved back to Ma to live with my real mom, Green Day helped me get through losing my best friend.

My dad and step mom finally admitted to their addication and started going to NA meetings, that put a lot of pressure on me because I had to watch my little brother and sister all the time, Green Day helped me through that.

A few months after my brother moved back to ma he woke up one morning with a large mass (about the size of a softball on his back) he was diagnosed with cancer 2 days later and started chemotherapy and radiation immediatly. When he was a baby he also had cancer and as a result only has one kidney. He then went through major surgery, he had 5 1/2 ribs removed all the ones that protect his heart and had multiple skin grafts, Green Day helped me soo much during that time. (He has been cancer free for 3 months)

My real mom is also an addict and goes to AA meetings, she says she has 6 months clean. (not sure if that is true) She recently got legally separated from her husband of 5 years (they are still technically married). She has a new boyfriend who just happens to be the son of her younger sisters dead ex husband (confusing, i know) He is in jail for breaking his parol (dont know what he did) My mom has been visting him every sunday and plans to have him move in with my brother and her. My brother is furious he called me up almost in tears the other day and told me he also said that I wasnt suppose to know so now I have to act like everything i just dandy every time I talk to her, when all I really want to do is scream at her. My brother wants to move back to az now but he cant because he doesnt want to live with us because he hates my step mom (so do i) but he doesnt have the money to get himself an apartment and he cant get a job that pay a lot because he is limited in the movement of his shoulder due to the surgery. Listening to Green Day is helping me through that.

My brother flew out to visit me a week ago, I missed homecoming to spend time with him. He ended going somewhere with one of his friends so I had nothing to do that night so I let my dad and step mom go to see a movie. It turned out to be way more than a movie and they both relapsed and now step mom has to attend 90 meeting in 90 days and expects me to throw away my life to babysit my little brother and sister ( who i think are old enough to watch themselves, me and my brother did when we were their age, but since they are my step moms kids they cant stay home alone) Green Day is helping me through this.

Listening to Green Day now helped me spill my guts about how Green Day saved me.

Sorry for all the crap to read.

[viva_la_gloria!]

i dont really know wat 2 say abt green day savin me...

there are lots of bands i love but wateva...it's always green day on the top of my list

they've definitely changed/influenced me to some extent....i cant help lovin' them enough !

wenever i'm dejected i'll play AI or 21cb..in my mind...and it does help me..makes me happy

and wake me up when september ends

here comes the rain again

falling from the stars

drenched in my pain again

becoming who we are

it makes me feel so....kinda different and strange in a nice-sorta way and i relate to it wenever i'm troubled

and viva la gloria s always there to give me hope and hold against all odds !

[Rae'n'shine]

Listening to Green Day now helped me spill my guts about how Green Day saved me.

I hope everything works out for you. I'm sorry about your brother having cancer, it sounds like you two are pretty close. My brother and I are really close so I can't imagine what it would be like if he had cancer.

I hope your family recover from the addiction they have to drugs. I've been around drugs all my life. My mom and dad were huge potheads when I was younger. When my brother went off to college in 2005, he asked my dad to give him some pot. He did and my brother became a pothead also. Then, around Christmas time 2 years ago, my brother went insane. He quit cold turkey from his addiction, and somehow ended up in a mental institution. That was the worst time of my life. He and I are really close, and at this time, I would talk to him on the phone while he was in the mental hospital, and he wouldn't even know who I was. When he came home to recover, he tried convincing me numerous time that the CIA were after us and we had to leave out house immediately. He had become a paranoid schizophrenic and had been in and out of mental hospitals since then. Now, he's classified as being just bi-polar, but I have no idea if he will relapse in a couple of months.

I also learned my dad's history with drugs: he was a coke addict for 2 years, and has tried every single drug in the book. He even smokes pot with my brother whenever they're together.

Without Green Day, I would probably have gone insane from this experience, and many other things. I have a tendency to over-think everything that I encounter, Green Day helps me to calm down my brain and actually relax. They are the only band that can make me mellow out when I'm on overload.

[Segan]

i was going through a very tough breakup from a long relationship this past summer. i went to my first concert ever, green day in july (been my favorite band since i was five,) and it literaly changed my life in so many ways. weird, huh?

[Bubbles.]

Definitely... Green Day's music has helped me so much.

I don't know how I would have gotten through life without them...

I love them, and forever will (:

[Ila Reto]

y'know how hard it can be to properly describe an emotion or part of you?

thats how answering this question kind of is.

i think the easiest way to put it is, Green Day is the reason im still able to get up every morning.

i've grown up with these guys (okay, so maybe 4 years isn't exactly "growing up" but it was for me),

they taught me how to live, they've helped form my morals and ideas,

it goes deeper too, i wouldn't have had the same friends, wouldn't have loved the same people, wouldn't have gone through the same experiences and wouldn't have become the person i am.

and they're all i've ever known. the only thing constant and stable in my live, the one thing that won't break my heart or hurt me.

i hear these songs every day and it's not music to me anymore, it's an emotion or experience bleeding from somewhere in my heart or mind.

if this band was ever taken away from me, i wouldn't have anything left.

people wonder why i've stuck with the same band for years but its not like how preteens are crazy about Jonas or anything near that, they're simply my connection to life and to myself.

thats why i find it hard to make bonds with people who can't accept that, im a package deal. you get me, you get green day that's how its always been and there's no doubt in my mind for a second that that's how its always going to be.

[dolce]

^ I feel the same way.

And you are the same age as me, 16 - they came into my life full-swing right after I turned 12. If they hadn't come into my life at that very second, who knows what would've happened to me. I feel I've grown up with them, too. It was the first time in my life where I felt so lost and alone, and then I found them, and they helped me find me. I am more thankful to have them in my life than words could possibly express.

[Smoothed Out]

When I'm in certain situations at school or at home where everything becomes blurred and I don't know what to do. Listening to music, mostly Green Day's, helps me to clear my mind and sometimes it's just a way of escaping everything.

And sometimes it's just great to rock out really loud when I'm seriously angry!

[Tre_Gina]

it's really interesting reading through these posts. Green Day has had a huge impact on my life. Before I heard their music I used to just blend in with the crowd be interested in all mainstream things not really have a 'thing' I loved.

since I have been listening to them I have 'come out of my shell' and am proud to say what a big Green Day fan I am, also I have taken drum lessons because of their music and can now play several of their songs, which a few years ago I would never have considered.

x

[Whatsername1533]

I hope everything works out for you. I'm sorry about your brother having cancer, it sounds like you two are pretty close. My brother and I are really close so I can't imagine what it would be like if he had cancer.

I hope your family recover from the addiction they have to drugs. I've been around drugs all my life. My mom and dad were huge potheads when I was younger. When my brother went off to college in 2005, he asked my dad to give him some pot. He did and my brother became a pothead also. Then, around Christmas time 2 years ago, my brother went insane. He quit cold turkey from his addiction, and somehow ended up in a mental institution. That was the worst time of my life. He and I are really close, and at this time, I would talk to him on the phone while he was in the mental hospital, and he wouldn't even know who I was. When he came home to recover, he tried convincing me numerous time that the CIA were after us and we had to leave out house immediately. He had become a paranoid schizophrenic and had been in and out of mental hospitals since then. Now, he's classified as being just bi-polar, but I have no idea if he will relapse in a couple of months.

I also learned my dad's history with drugs: he was a coke addict for 2 years, and has tried every single drug in the book. He even smokes pot with my brother whenever they're together.

Without Green Day, I would probably have gone insane from this experience, and many other things. I have a tendency to over-think everything that I encounter, Green Day helps me to calm down my brain and actually relax. They are the only band that can make me mellow out when I'm on overload.

I'm sorry about your brother, that must be really sad to remember what he was like before and then see him the way he is now.

Yeah I need to add to my story, some of it kinda relates you yours.

Sooo my mom is still dating the douche that just got out of jail. I guess he got a job at the good will (loser) My brother got a job he works full time and is still only a senior in high school annddd is recovering from cancer. We have been talking a lot lately and he seems to be doing a littler better now that he is not in the house all the time. My mom started asking him for $400 a month to live with her (he is 18 but that is still outrageous) They ended up agreeing on $300.

Then about 2 weeks ago I called my mom cause we relationship has been a little better and asked her if she was gonna be able to fly me back for x-mas. She said she was busy and she would call me back, she literally calls be back 30 seconds later and said she was in the hospital. I asked her why and she said she was crazy (under my breath i said i already knew that she heard though and didn't care) and she was getting a psych evaluation. She didn't call me again for about a week. I asked her why and she said it was cause my brother was mentally abusing her and that her sister and her boyfriend have both witnessed it (those are the only 2 people who we cant trust in this situation if it was her older sister then i would believe it.)

She was in the loony bin for a week they wanted to keep her longer but she refused. She called my brothers school so he could get dismissed to pick her up. They said they wouldn't even though he is 18. She talked to his school counselor (who isn't there to counsel more to just help with school schedules) and told her/him everything. He had stayed up really late the night before writing a paper and she dismissed him before he got to turn it in. When he got her he didn't say a word, he went to the gas station and made he pay for a tank of gas. then she asked to drive her to her sisters house where her boyfriend is staying. The only reason she wanted to get out was to she her boyfriend.

When I go back to mass for x-mas I am staying with my aunt on my dads side and totally avoiding her. All her, her sister, and her boyfriend does is cause drama and I don't need anymore of that in my life.

Well on a positive not my dad and step mom have 60 days clean today and there is only 30 days of hell left for me. =]]]

y'know how hard it can be to properly describe an emotion or part of you?

thats how answering this question kind of is.

i think the easiest way to put it is, Green Day is the reason im still able to get up every morning.

i've grown up with these guys (okay, so maybe 4 years isn't exactly "growing up" but it was for me),

they taught me how to live, they've helped form my morals and ideas,

it goes deeper too, i wouldn't have had the same friends, wouldn't have loved the same people, wouldn't have gone through the same experiences and wouldn't have become the person i am.

and they're all i've ever known. the only thing constant and stable in my live, the one thing that won't break my heart or hurt me.

i hear these songs every day and it's not music to me anymore, it's an emotion or experience bleeding from somewhere in my heart or mind.

if this band was ever taken away from me, i wouldn't have anything left.

people wonder why i've stuck with the same band for years but its not like how preteens are crazy about Jonas or anything near that, they're simply my connection to life and to myself.

thats why i find it hard to make bonds with people who can't accept that, im a package deal. you get me, you get green day that's how its always been and there's no doubt in my mind for a second that that's how its always going to be.

Thats exactly how I feel about Green Day. People never understand it when I talk about GD they are just like whatever you're crazy. It seems like nobody else feel the way i do, but now I know i'm not the only one.

[Guest]

Last Week My friend started doing weed (and im a guy who REALLY doesnt like drugs and all that.)

and she WAS a really close friend. i couldnt believe the reason she gave me for why shes doing this

and well (she hates green day so i can probably say it) she hates her life and i know shes tried killing her self MANY times before. I told her she needs help but she always refuses to do it. So i havent seen her because i go to Quimby Oak and she goes to Levya (Middle School is San Jose, Ca. BAYAREA!) nor online in awhile so im sorta worried about her now. During this time i was listening to Before the Lobotomy which made me feel like this was all a dream so i can wander off to my personal world, then Don't Leave Me because the title makes me feel like shes fading away, and finally Good Riddance which told me to forget every thing and just let me have the time of my life (O_o that was really confusing..)

[parinaz]

no they didn't.

[greendaygal89]

green day have helped me through a lot of stuff over the years like when my mum and dad got divorced just listening to there songs would put a smile on my face!!

[ANJI]

Green Day have helped me through some tough times in the past and they always make me happy whenever I hear their songs or see them on TV!

I once read in a newspaper that a small child was in a coma for a long time...and one day he became conscious cos he heard Boulevard of Broken Dreams on the radio!

[Tashidge]

I've been a fan for thirteen years. Over the thirteen year time period, their music has brought me through the worst times of my life and made me a stronger person. Their music showed me that it was perfectly fine for me to be different from everyone else, it was ok for me to get emotional from time to time.

Did they save me? I think they saved me from myself and my own emotions. I lost three people very close together - all through heart problems. It was a hard time for me because I'd never lost people close to me before. I mean, people I went to school with had died and course, I was upset but they weren't my family. At the time, I found that I shrank into myself in terms of emotions. I was off college for 3 months [compassionate leave] since it happened in November [the 4 year anniversary is tomorrow], December of 06 and January of 07. During that time, I refused to speak to anyone and thought that if I showed any emotions about it at all then I would be showing signs of weakness y'know. My family were depending on me to hold my shit together when all I wanted to do was fall apart.

Listening to Green Day around that time was the only thing which let me have a release. The music was something that I could connect with because it was like... this is gonna sound so lame... but it was like they understood how I felt. There's no way I would've been able to get through that without that band.

[kidney]

well, since I've first seen 'em play Going to Pasalacqua it left me with new found inspiration and hope for some girl I really like and would want something with her.. of course since then I've failed in my attempts so far and lately that hope has been running out but come the past Monday they played the song again. so.. here we go again, infatuation...

[rhiaaaaa]

it's really interesting reading through these posts. Green Day has had a huge impact on my life. Before I heard their music I used to just blend in with the crowd be interested in all mainstream things not really have a 'thing' I loved.

since I have been listening to them I have 'come out of my shell' and am proud to say what a big Green Day fan I am, also I have taken drum lessons because of their music and can now play several of their songs, which a few years ago I would never have considered.

x

This is the same for me (apart from the bit about drumming).

I used to be really quiet etc and would just fit into the crowd, but I never felt I really belonged. Listening to Green Day has made me realise I don't necessarily need to belong, as long as I'm myself

[novacaine_kid]

i wouldn't say they have saved my life but they have gotten me through some tough times. they are the only band i can listen to and instantly feel some kind of peace when things go wrong for me

[Bubbles.]

Green Day has saved me a lot of times. I feel this really close connection to them, like they know exactly how I feel. They say it so perfectly too. When I was ending a friendship a few months ago, Words I Might Have Ate described my thoughts flawlessly and helped me be more optimistic about the situation. JAR is one of my favorite songs of all time because it touches me in a way that can't be described. Also, lately I've been having a lot of panic attacks . Listening to GD and realizing that Billie struggles with the same issues I do makes me feel a whole lot better. I never thought a band could possibly ever mean so much to me, but Green Day has impacted my life so much. I love those boys.

I concur with everything you said

[Sarah.Scumbag]

Green Day Helped me a lot about two summers ago. I was really depressed, basically over nothing.

At the time, I only had 3 Cd's which where, Shenanigans, International Superhits & American Idiot.

I mostly listened to American Idiot & It helped me get a lot of this anger out which was building up inside & Eventually, helped me get over my depression. Thankfully I started listening to their music more before I started doing something really stupid like slitting my wrists or having drug overdoses or something. And because of that period of time, even though it was incredibly horrible, Green Day became my favourite band. Because they had helped me through so much.

I still tend to listen to them, when i'm not feeling at my best.

They always have at least one song that describes, perfectly, exactly how you feel at the time.

[karma1215]

I think they changed the way I thought about myself. My self - esteem got a little better just by listening to them. I'm not quite as quiet as I used to be nor am I as timid as I used to be.

[Comedy & Tragedy]

Well, when I first started secondary school (all back 1 year ago) it was really stressful.

My school is really bad, and all the teachers are super-strict bitches (and I don't cope with change well) also, I had been separated from loads of my friends.

I used to get extremely stressed and upset, until I realized that listening to Green day relaxed me and motivated me to be myself and live my life.

Now, my school is still shite, but I can be myself and be somewhat happy. That school ruined my life, and green day put it back the way it was. I really don't know what would have happened if I hadn't found them.....weird.

[fletcher-999]

I've used Green Day music in the past as a Motivation Boost, when I felt alone or sad, or if I needed that little extra support before going for a job interview i'd listen to a Green Day track before I went and somehow that track would help me through it.... If i'm really stressed, I tend to annoy myself even more by playing platypus before switching gears to a song like Last Night on Earth to calm me right back down again.. works every time, I find that alot of their songs I can relate to so they really help me

[Vespertine]

Their songs have changed my life and the way I am. I mean, I wouldn't be myself now if it weren't for Green Day's music. Really.

For some reason, they give me hope.

[newsflash777]

They have placed something in my heart that has shown me who I really am. (Cheesy<3)