#cleanspeech

𝐼 𝓃𝑜𝓌 𝒷𝑒𝓁𝒾𝑒𝓋𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓅𝒶𝒾𝓃 𝓂𝒶𝓀𝑒𝓈 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓈𝓉𝓇𝑜𝓃𝑔𝑒𝓇. 𝒜𝓃𝒹 𝓃𝑜𝓌 𝒾 𝒷𝑒𝓁𝒾𝑒𝓋𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓌𝒶𝓁𝓀𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝒽𝓇𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽 𝒶 𝓁𝑜𝓉 𝑜𝒻 𝓇𝒶𝒾𝓃𝓈𝓉𝑜𝓇𝓂𝓈 𝑔𝑒𝓉𝓈 𝓎𝑜𝓊..𝒞𝓁𝑒𝒶𝓃. - 𝒯𝒶𝓎𝓁𝑜𝓇 𝒮𝓌𝒾𝒻𝓉 💕

Being a swiftie at home the past days has given me a lot of time to look through the photos on my phone and to think back to the amazing times I had at concerts, especially this one here: 1989 in Cologne. I can't belive that it's already been almost 5 years! I remember having a really bad cold that day and not going wasn't an option because I've waited for that night since forever.

I was so so excited, and my parents' and my seats were amazing, 2 seats from the platform. And seeing everyone's costumes was mind-blowing. Unfortunately, I didn't know about the swiftie-concert-costume tradition beforehand ... "But I got smarter, I got harder in the nick of time" ... and by joining social media 😅

That's a picture of my mom, Cornelia, and me. Picture taken by my dad 😄

I kinda forced them to go with me, and in the end they said that it was one of the best concerts they've been to and I was like yesss 💪🏼😆

I have no idea how we managed to take this amazing photo on the left here. The lighting was amazing (👏🏼 for everyone who's been working backstage to create this amazing show).

And one of my favorite photos, Taylor giving one of her legendary speeches. It's always so inspirational to listen to her ... and that night I really needed this because I was in a pretty dark place beforehand. And it seriously came at the best time possible because the following day I was going to a dance contest with my team, and the speech has kinda restored my self-confindence. The speech has helped me so much to get on that stage the next day and to just shake it off 💪🏼

How much I love this picture because it shows the amazingly lit-up arena 😍

The picure on the left is my symbol of what @taylorswift means to me: she and her music are my rocks because I can always find a song or something she's said in an interview or at a concert that I can rely on in dark times.

And the picture on the right had to be taken because what would a Taylor Swift concert be without this? 😄

It was so funny having Taylor sing Shake It Off above our heads while we were shaking it off on the floor.

“So I can only assume that, if you’re here tonight, then music helps you when you’re having difficult times, that maybe you had some difficult times in your life, whether it was that you didn’t feel like you fit in, or you didn’t know where you were going with your life, or you fell in love with a habit or a person who was bad for you, but you couldn’t put it down.

And all of those things can make you feel like you’ve lost yourself, or you’ve lost your way, or can make you feel like you’re going nowhere. And it’s never a good feeling to feel like you’re standing still, but, when you’re feeling like you’re standing still, I want you to look in the mirror and remind yourself what you are, and what you are not, okay?

You are not someone else’s opinion of you.

You are not damaged goods just because you’ve made a few mistakes in your life.

You are not going nowhere just because you haven’t gotten where you want to go yet.

On the other hand, you are wiser for the mistakes that you have made.

You are brave because you were bold enough to put yourself in a position to take risks and make mistakes.

And you are someone who has walked through a bunch of rainstorms and kept putting one foot in front of the other.

And I think, I think I keep learning every day, but after learning for 25 years, the one thing I do know is that pain does make you a stronger person. And I do know that walking through a bunch of rainstorms, and continuing to put one foot in front of the other, makes you

clean.”

You are not the opinion of someone who doesn’t know you.

You are the product of the lessons you’ve learned.

You are wiser because you went through something terrible.

And you are the person who survived a bunch of rainstorms and kept walking.

I now believe that pain makes you stronger, and I now believe that walking through a lot of rainstorms gets you Clean.