Doing what you love & the One Direction Concert

This is going to be yet another concert post just because I always feel so at home at concerts, especially at this specific one I'm posting about.

I'm not going to be embarrassed to say that I literally LOVE one direction (but I mean c'mon, who doesn't?) Ever since I was 14 years old I've gone to their concerts every year (sometimes going to both nights hehe) and every year turns into a night I could never forget.

Usually every year we end up running around Toronto all day, getting to the venue early to watch them arrive, making new friends at the show and dancing our butts off the rest of the night.

It's weird to say...but growing up listening and looking up to a band, keeping up to date with their news, watching them grow as artists and making new friends a long the way has really just made me happy to be apart of something even if that makes me apart of a fandom or a dreaded "fan girl"

I've had an especially hard summer especially learning and living with the anxiety disorder I was recently diagnosed with. I've felt especially abnormal this summer and kind of down on myself for it. However, being back at their concert again kinda brought me back down to earth, helped me remember who I was last year I was at this concert and feeling unbelievably happy. It let me remember how I felt about myself before any of this happened and made me realize I'm still the same girl I always was. Despite how much has changed and how much I've changed 

Last night I felt so hilarious! I was singing and and dancing like mad, standing on my chair, starting a wave in my section, talking to younger fans about my experiences, holding up signs for various fan projects, and by the time the encore came around we were running around the aisles doing an irish jig and crying laughing!

I guess the point of this post I really wanted to make was that since I was my 14 year old self I always got made fun of for liking this band as much as I did, but every year I came back to the concert, saw the same friends I see at their concerts, laughed my head off all day and stood in the crowd that night knowing there was no place I would rather be in the world at that moment. Every year I came home at night gleeful but exhausted and this year was no different.

Loving what you love without letting others try to bring you down for it or ruin it for you can lead you to some of the best and happiest memories you'll have in your entire life. Theres so much pressure in today's society to be "normal" and to "blend-in", theres an attractiveness to it but it leads to such a bland lifestyle. In all honesty, when I'm at my absolute weirdest, knowing everyone around me is probably judging me, I'm my happiest. Even if that means me screaming "I LOVE YOU" to Harry Styles on stage haha!

Don't be afraid to love something or someone if it makes you incredibly happy. It would be an absolute shame to look back on you life when you're old and regret not doing something you love just because you were afraid of how you might look in the eyes of others. Chances are, 50 years those people who judged you won't even remember your name.

And if One Direction ever comes to your city, they put on a great show and you should definitely see them!!

What is something you love but are nervous to admit? LET IT ALL OUT!!!

Till next time!

Jade