My name is Haley, I am sixteen years old, and this is my story.
I am a girl who grew up in central Indiana. Ever since I was a little girl my life consisted of singing and playing instruments (even if I did suck). Growing up was easy for me because my parents and grandparents gave up so much for me. I have been blessed and privileged and everyday I am so thankful for that. I had plenty of friends, family, and support around me, that is except for one person.
The only person who wasn’t there for me was myself. I constantly brought myself down, telling myself how much I hated who I was, who I wasn’t. I tried being something I wasn’t and it turned me into a monster. When my parents got divorced, I blamed everything on myself and I critiqued my every move. I turned away my friends and most of my family and I started to feel like a burden. It felt like I would be better off invisible, non existent. My only escape out of this detrimental sadness really was music (and sleep). Songs would comfort me, no matter what the genre, the artist, the sound. I loved hearing things from different point of views. I loved hearing the stories of each individual life and place in time, and occasionally I could relate to a song.
Not too long ago on June 7, 2015, I listened to a band called Twenty One Pilots. This little duet of two guys in their mid 20’s, one banging on the drums and one rapping and playing the piano. Not exactly the definition of superheroes, but they were to me.
Twenty One Pilots flew into my life and changed it around. For once in my life there were lyrics that understood me, that ‘got’ me. I felt like such an outsider for so long. I felt like I was an individual who had no hope for improvement and that my life was going to be one big black hole sucking up everything around me. I felt lost and scared. When I listened to them, my fears shrunk. I didn’t feel so alone, so weird. I felt like a human. I felt understood.
Every day I am thankful for the band Twenty One Pilots. They have helped me through the hardest of hardships and I love all they have done for me.
Stay alive, |-/
I am a girl who grew up in central Indiana. Ever since I was a little girl my life consisted of singing and playing instruments (even if I did suck). Growing up was easy for me because my parents and grandparents gave up so much for me. I have been blessed and privileged and everyday I am so thankful for that. I had plenty of friends, family, and support around me, that is except for one person.
The only person who wasn’t there for me was myself. I constantly brought myself down, telling myself how much I hated who I was, who I wasn’t. I tried being something I wasn’t and it turned me into a monster. When my parents got divorced, I blamed everything on myself and I critiqued my every move. I turned away my friends and most of my family and I started to feel like a burden. It felt like I would be better off invisible, non existent. My only escape out of this detrimental sadness really was music (and sleep). Songs would comfort me, no matter what the genre, the artist, the sound. I loved hearing things from different point of views. I loved hearing the stories of each individual life and place in time, and occasionally I could relate to a song.
Not too long ago on June 7, 2015, I listened to a band called Twenty One Pilots. This little duet of two guys in their mid 20’s, one banging on the drums and one rapping and playing the piano. Not exactly the definition of superheroes, but they were to me.
Twenty One Pilots flew into my life and changed it around. For once in my life there were lyrics that understood me, that ‘got’ me. I felt like such an outsider for so long. I felt like I was an individual who had no hope for improvement and that my life was going to be one big black hole sucking up everything around me. I felt lost and scared. When I listened to them, my fears shrunk. I didn’t feel so alone, so weird. I felt like a human. I felt understood.
Every day I am thankful for the band Twenty One Pilots. They have helped me through the hardest of hardships and I love all they have done for me.
Stay alive, |-/