Dear Niall Horan;
(Mostly, when I say “you” in the first paragraph I mean the Band One Direction itself, not only Niall)
I know it’s a lot to ask you, Niall, to read this. That’s why I won’t. I mean, it would make my life if you did. But I neither force you to, nor necessarily need a reply. Because all I want, is to let you know what you do to me, or perhaps even other fans.
Like I said, I don’t expect you to read this, but if you do:
“Hi, I’ve been listening to one direction for about, what? One and a half years, something like that. I must admit, I first didn’t give a fuck about y’all, because I thought ‘1D’ was just another mainstream-boyband. But when I saw one of your videos, I realizes I should off give you a chance. And at least try to listen to one of your songs. Eventually I liked ‘One Direction’. I also have to confess that I usually listen to slightly different music. Post-Hardcore, mainly.
But with you it’s different. Your music touches not only my heart and soul, but also my mind and thoughts.
And I’m aware of that you aren’t the only member of the band, but this one goes out to you only. I know, that ‘One Direction’ wouldn’t be the way they are, if anyone was missing, but I want to thank you particularly. I don’t exactly know how to find words for what I want to tell you. But I’ll try. Did you realize I’ve been quite annoying the past two (or something) weeks? Hopefully not, but if so, I tried to talk to you so bad, because I wanted to tell you the following. I once had the plan to tell you personally, but reality screwed that up quite badly. But actually the harsh reality unfortunately is, that I’ll probably - pretty certainly - never see you live. Because, you have to know, I live in Austria. A place you’d never include in your world-tour. Anyway, I will now stop the excuses for my really pushy behavior. And start with the important:
Niall, thank you for the strength you’ve given me the past year. I know I don’t know anything about you, and I know you could care less, but you’ve got something about yourself that’s so damn… well, let’s call it special.
Something that gives me the guts to believe in myself, I don’t know how you do what you do but I love it.
When I hear your laugh or see your smile I automatically have to smile. When I listen to your voice singing, I feel like I can do anything, reach all the things I want and be who I really am. And I know this must sound weird to you.
But with some things you do, you even make me feel unique.
I guess I’m lucky having the ability to listen to ‘one direction’ and be able to watch your interviews.
And I might sound weird, but you and your music kinda changed me, because your band has been there for me, when I needed it the most. They sometimes made unbearable things bearable to me, because I knew that the music would always be there for me. No matter if it’s a happy song or a sad one, I mostly can relate to it.
When it’s a sad song I can get lost in it and when it’s a happy song it cheers me up.
It makes me wanna jump up and dance to it.
Also you are a very strong person, because I know people often told you nasty things, things you don’t deserve to hear, things nobody deserves to hear. But I am now here to tell you, that you belong to ‘One Direction’ no matter what anyone else might say. I guess the past few months you’ve gained quite a lot of fans.
But I’ve always liked you, as much as I can like someone I know nothing about.
And you’ve got so much potential, you play the guitar so well, you have such a special voice and you deserve all the fame and all the success you have.
I just want to say thank you again - thank you for making me fight for what I believe in, thank you for helping me grow up and thank you for giving me the strength to be myself.
This was pretty bad, but I’m just not good with words, I didn’t even say half the things I wanted to. But I hoped you kinda realized how important you are to me. Important as an artist of course.
Yours faithfully,
a normal Fan.
If ANYONE read this, you deserve a HUGE hug. I know Niall didn’t read it, but it’s fine. But if anyone else read it, really - THANK YOU! ♥
