This is an emotional post about life and Glee.

4:44 Feb 10th, 2012 | 2 notes

You know when people get upset when someone else says something bad about that one thing you really love? If you take this situation and apply it to my friends; Itd be like someone saying Lady Gaga sucks to Kira. It’s like saying My Chemical Romance is a shitty band to Seth. Itd be like saying The Maine is awful to Brenna. It hurts. The band/singer/artist/thing is everything to you. As teenagers, we need that one thing to feel okay sometimes. When Kira feels like shit I can guarantee she listens to Lady Gaga or watches interviews of her. Same goes for Seth or Brenna. For the longest time, my thing that I went to, was so unhealthy. Music meant a lot to me, I had favorite bands, but nothing could quite get me through it more than this thing did. I hated myself. I hated the way I looked, the way I sounded, the way I acted.

All up until last year, I agreed to have a Glee marathon with Meghan. She had introduced me to something as amazing as Harry Potter, how wrong could she be about Glee? At a first glance, Glee just seemed like a show about a bunch of teenagers with problems that sang about it in a show choir. At first, it was good to me, but nothing special. And then I stuck with it. I watched every single episode. I was there for every win, every loss, every up, and every down for every single character. Homophobic, careless Puck went from throwing Kurt in the dumpster to being in the school musical and stepping up to the plate and being a father to Beth. Boy crazy, cheerleader Quinn went from being obsessed with popularity and being cruel to Rachel to letting her past go, getting accepted into Yale, and truly caring about Rachel’s life. Artie stands up for himself. Kurt is happy with a boy he loves and has been accepted into his top choice school. Rachel got accepted into her top choice school. Santana came out of the closet and is opening herself up to everyone. Every character has grown so much and I grew with them.

Maybe it’s just a show, and it’s just a bunch of fictional characters, but it all means something to me, and a lot of other people. They helped me accept myself. They make me believe in myself and they get me through the week sometimes. They changed the way I think of myself and others and they helped me drop the bad habits I turned to when I didn’t feel okay. Did they make a cover of a song you like that you don’t approve of? Do you think they went into the song and thought “alright guys today we are covering Adele and we’re going to make this song so much better than it is”. No, every song they do is either a tribute or the song is used for plot. They appreciate the artists and form what I’ve seen they get so excited to be able to sing a song from someone with such talent, such as Michael Jackson. If you don’t like a cover then don’t listen to it. Do you think Glee is “gay”? Kurt, Blaine, Santana, Brittany and a few other characters are gay. Not the show. Maybe that’s what you meant. A show can’t be physically attracted to something. It doesn’t have a gender. Try again.

Also, think again before you insult something that you know a friend loves. Think about how much it would piss you off if they insulted that one thing that means the world to you. You wouldn’t like it so much, would you?

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