Hey guys!
This is my first post on here and I’m not really sure what I’m doing but I hope it goes somewhere and I really hope you guys can read through it even though it’s super long and maybe help me out.
Last Friday in Dublin I met Taylor. It was more than I ever dreamt it would be and I had hands down the best night of my life having that opportunity and being able to hug and talk to someone I have looked up to for 10 years. But this post isn’t about me who met Taylor, this is about my friend Rachael who didn’t but definitely should have.
We travelled as a group of 3 to Dublin for the show (Myself, Caitlin & Rachael). We spent months looking forward to it, we organised costumes together and we posted them on social media together just for a bit of fun in the hopes that maybe taylornation might like it but at the very least we could join in with the hype of everyone going to the show. We never thought in a million years that this would happen to us.
When we got the DM from taylornation we were just off the plane and we were ecstatic. I’m talking crying on the runway excited. And yes, the message never told us we were meeting Taylor but being long term swifties we know the drill and so we had a solid feeling, and if not we knew something exciting was happening. It was totally surreal and we went to our hotel and got excited together awaiting the phone call from taylornation. We got this phone call and they took ALL of our names and details and told us that it was all fine and we should head to will call at 4pm. We were all going to get an exciting surprise at our first show together, or so we thought.
Half an hour later taylornation called us back and gave us the devastating news that all 3 of us could not take part in the opportunity and that we would have to pick two of us to go. I cannot even begin to explain how awful this was, and something we never even considered would be an issue.
We were forced while on a phone call to pick between 3 long term swifties to get the opportunity of a lifetime. We all cried. I don’t know what happened behind the scenes in this time and this is not to place blame on anyone, but this choice was to us completely unfair. We were a group of 3 which we thought was obvious from social media and picking between us was something none of us were prepared to do. It was completely devastating considering we were basically told it was fine during the first phone call and we were led to believe we were all getting some sort of fantastic opportunity only for us to have that ripped from one of us. I have honestly never been apart of such a difficult decision.
Caitlin was obviously to go as it was her account that received the message. Rachael was immediately adamant that I should go with Caitlin. She did not think twice. From the girl who has NEVER seen Taylor in her life before, she chose me before herself. I have never known friendship like it and I knew how much it would break her heart. I tried to argue and all she could say to me was “I don’t know anyone more deserving” and taylornation were still on the call waiting for an answer and so Caitlin told them it would be us.
The reaction that followed this phone call was not the squeals of excitement, hugging each other, conversation or jittery feeling that it should have been. It was deafening silence and I don’t know about the other two but all I could do was bury my head in the pillow in disbelief. This is not to come across ungrateful or angry as that is not what I want from this post but I can tell you that in that moment I was not excited.
Some of you might think that none of us should have gone, and you might be right. But please understand that in a situation like this where it is really happening and not just theoretical it is impossible to think straight. As every swiftie knows these are not opportunities that arise easily or very often and the chance that this would ever happen to us was already slim and we all know would probably have never happened again. Maybe as an outsider you will think otherwise and that’s okay, but for us when emotions were running so high it did not feel like an option to say no.
Lots of people have asked if any of us had met
Taylor before but the answer is No. Caitlin and I had seen her on the 1989 tour once and this was Rachael’s first taylor show. We do not have big fan accounts, we are not followed by Taylor or taylornation and we have never had any level of interaction before this.
So yes, I met Taylor and I am eternally grateful for that and I am appreciative of every second of the opportunity I was given and for everything that Taylor, taylornation and the whole team did for me that night and I can’t thank them enough. But what I’m trying to say is I met Taylor because of the selfless, generous and totally admirable actions of Rachael.
In my eyes, Rachael should have met Taylor that night. We don’t know why she didn’t and maybe we will never know but I can tell you that she deserved it. She has been a fan of Taylor for almost as long as I have despite never being able to see her live. I won’t go into the details simply because they are not strictly mine to say but this has been a particularly tough year and I know that a hug from Taylor would have done wonders for her. It breaks my heart that she did not have the opportunity for that when we did.
With this in mind, I need you guys to help me with something. Rachael deserved to meet Taylor but now even more than ever she definitely deserves it. We all know how much that DM and opportunity means so I hope you can realise exactly what it must have taken for her to have that within her grasp and to VOLUNTARILY take herself out of the equation. She did that because she wanted me to be happy. We are best friends anyway but that act alone has shown me even more than ever how much of a real friend she is.
PLEASE can you share this post, share a shortened version of it, tag taylornation and Taylor and tell them about her in any way you can think of. Let’s please try and get Rachael to Taylor. We do not have any plans of another show but if we can make this happen we will do our absolute best to get her there and do anything it takes so this can happen.
To Taylor if you read this by some chance, please know that I do not think any of this is your fault. You are the sweetest person ever and you were beyond lovely to us the whole night and we will hold that in our hearts forever. I am more grateful for my time with you than I could ever say and I really hope you know that.
To taylornation if you read this, I do not intend for it to be perceived as ungrateful or some attempt to undermine you guys. You make our dreams come true everyday as I have experienced first hand and I am sure that this is just a miscommunication or unfortunate outcome from a required rule.
To everyone who already knows about this and has expressed love and been willing to help share Rachael’s story, thank you. Because of people like you we might actually make this happen.
This is such a long shot but I can’t not try. This is the only way I can think of saying thank you to her. Thanks for reading and please help me get this absolute diamond to Taylor! #JusticeForRach
(Bonus pics of Rach having the time of her life even though she just watched her friends meet Tay without her, what a pure and beautiful soul)
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