3JSB Fan Week: Fan letter to 3JSB
It has been roughly six months since I was introduced to 3JSB. Oddly enough, it feels much longer with the number of smiles and laughter that I have had over the past few months because of you. It now feels or incomplete to not see or hear about you in a day because, at some point, you have become a part of my daily routine. It’s funny because if I were to think back to six months ago and the first impressions I had of you, I never would have guessed that I would be filled with this much adoration and fondness for you. But I am and each day feels a little more fun and exciting since knowing you because I feel like I have a gained a new friend, a bond created through music about experiences that we all have: love, dreams and happiness.
It feels like I now have a friend that shows me that I can be completely true to myself and there will be people who will you love you and accept you entirely as who you are. A friend that has made me realise that some of your best friendships will come from the most unlikely situations and places or with people would never have considered before but that makes life a pleasant surprise, doesn’t it? A friend that has taught me that while talent is important, it is hard work and perseverance that will guarantee your success and will never let you down. Most importantly, you are a friend that reminds me that life is better experienced with great company, with friends you can grow together with and challenge each other to be better versions of yourselves while supporting each other’s dreams and having one another’s back.
Some would say that it is weird, ridiculous even that I feel such a connection with a group of people who do not know me, let alone speak the same language as me or is from the same country as me. Maybe even laughable that I care about them and is invested in these people when I am just another person in the crowd in their eyes. I am not able to think of any ways to explain it other than they just make me happy.
Like the other things in life that make me smile, whether it be able to witness the start and the end of the day with each sunrise and sunset or seeing the smiles on the faces of my loved ones when we are spending time together, they are reasons behind my happiness too. They make me feel warm and content with life even though I am just witnessing them from a distance of them doing what they love and loving what they do because I can feel their happiness and they make me want to strive to feel that same level of happiness that I can call my own in my life.
I do not think there is anything I could say or write that would do justice to who they are and what they are to me and many others. While the future is uncertain and there are no promises that in the future, I will be actively following them as I do now, what I do know is that they have a special place in my place with the others that has left a positive impact on me. People who I will care about regardless how much time has passed or how much has changed because that bond shall not be erased. I shall end this with a quote I think many of us can relate to when it comes to the bond between an artist and a fan.
❝ People believe those fairytales about falling in love at first sight on the bus, subway, or on the streets. But it doesn’t make sense how they’d laugh at the ones who fell in love at first sight through TV screens. Loving a celebrity is a type of love. Love is fair to everyone. ❞
