Here's to the Directioners
We Are Cool
Here’s to the Directioners!
No, I don’t mean the ‘directioners’ in the Channel 4 Documentary.We are not them.Thank you for not setting a bad example like the girls in that video did.We don’t get braces just because Niall did – keeping in mind that he got them because of us – and being a Directioner definitely doesn’t compare to being in a cult.We are cool not because we do things like them or build our lives around them.We are cool – we are Directioners – because we stop in the middle of the hallway at our volleyball tournament to ‘Stop the Traffic and Let em Through’, because we tell our coach that we won’t be there for practice the night that ‘This Is Us’ comes out because we’re going to see the movie, because we write about them just to give us the little hope that someday we could be the characters in our stories and have them love us as more than just a fan, because we freak out when they flash to the camera set on Harry or Zayn at the Teen Choice Awards.We are Directioners because we don’t let one of their slip ups tear – no – taint our opinions of them, because we refuse to let what our parents and teachers and aunts and uncles say get to us – we love them whether they do or not – because we sit and vote for them for Teen Choice a thousand times because we want to see those boys get up on stage and get what they deserve.Here’s to the Directioners that wake up to their One Direction playlist and to the Directioners that encouraged Zayn to get his Twitter back and to the Directioners that told Niall that is Twitter was hacked.Here’s to the Directioners that have loved their boys for the last three, wonderful years and to the Directioners that don’t just love their faces, but their personalities as well, to those who buy their new album on iTunes the day it comes out, to the ones that help set the Vevo records just because we love their music and those five boys deserve nothing less.I don’t sit outside of their hotels. I’ve never been to one of their concerts – no matter how much I wanted to.I follow them on Twitter, but I don’t tell them that I’ll kill myself if they don’t follow me back.I have pictures of them plastered all over one wall of my room, but that doesn’t mean I go and seek them out on the streets – they have lives too.I live the Directioner life.That’s the life that loves the boys for them, not their appearances, and wants the best for them, not the best for us.It’s the life that tells the boys that we’re here, ready and waiting, for whatever they have to give us.It’s not the life that stalks them both cyber and on the streets.It’s not the girls who get braces just because Niall got them – keeping in mind that Niall got them because of the hate that probably came from the same girls who got the braces – and it’s not the girls who want Larry Stylinson just because they’re both sexy (if you write Larry fanfics, more power to you, not judging you, just the girls who swear to God that they’re true).It’s not the shallowness of bugging them on the streets and yelling things at Eleanor.Those are the kinds of things that the ‘Crazy About One Direction Documentary’ by Channel 4 posted about the relationship we have with our boys.That is not us.This Is Us.
No, I don’t mean the ‘directioners’ in the Channel 4 Documentary.We are not them.Thank you for not setting a bad example like the girls in that video did.We don’t get braces just because Niall did – keeping in mind that he got them because of us – and being a Directioner definitely doesn’t compare to being in a cult.We are cool not because we do things like them or build our lives around them.We are cool – we are Directioners – because we stop in the middle of the hallway at our volleyball tournament to ‘Stop the Traffic and Let em Through’, because we tell our coach that we won’t be there for practice the night that ‘This Is Us’ comes out because we’re going to see the movie, because we write about them just to give us the little hope that someday we could be the characters in our stories and have them love us as more than just a fan, because we freak out when they flash to the camera set on Harry or Zayn at the Teen Choice Awards.We are Directioners because we don’t let one of their slip ups tear – no – taint our opinions of them, because we refuse to let what our parents and teachers and aunts and uncles say get to us – we love them whether they do or not – because we sit and vote for them for Teen Choice a thousand times because we want to see those boys get up on stage and get what they deserve.Here’s to the Directioners that wake up to their One Direction playlist and to the Directioners that encouraged Zayn to get his Twitter back and to the Directioners that told Niall that is Twitter was hacked.Here’s to the Directioners that have loved their boys for the last three, wonderful years and to the Directioners that don’t just love their faces, but their personalities as well, to those who buy their new album on iTunes the day it comes out, to the ones that help set the Vevo records just because we love their music and those five boys deserve nothing less.I don’t sit outside of their hotels. I’ve never been to one of their concerts – no matter how much I wanted to.I follow them on Twitter, but I don’t tell them that I’ll kill myself if they don’t follow me back.I have pictures of them plastered all over one wall of my room, but that doesn’t mean I go and seek them out on the streets – they have lives too.I live the Directioner life.That’s the life that loves the boys for them, not their appearances, and wants the best for them, not the best for us.It’s the life that tells the boys that we’re here, ready and waiting, for whatever they have to give us.It’s not the life that stalks them both cyber and on the streets.It’s not the girls who get braces just because Niall got them – keeping in mind that Niall got them because of the hate that probably came from the same girls who got the braces – and it’s not the girls who want Larry Stylinson just because they’re both sexy (if you write Larry fanfics, more power to you, not judging you, just the girls who swear to God that they’re true).It’s not the shallowness of bugging them on the streets and yelling things at Eleanor.Those are the kinds of things that the ‘Crazy About One Direction Documentary’ by Channel 4 posted about the relationship we have with our boys.That is not us.This Is Us.
Notes
I hope that you took the time to read this. It really meant a lot if you did. If you liked it, feel free to comment and rate - no need to subscribe, I probably won't post on this again. If you disagree with me, more power to you, but I would appreciate if you kept your opinion to yourself. In my eyes, this is One Direction and these are their true Directioners :) If you don't agree then you don't, but that won't change my opinion.xoxo Hannah <3
This is so true...I feel the exact same way!;)
1/15/14