For more than 10 years, I’ve been in this journey. And the more time I spend by her side, I feel the luckiest person. Since I was so young, discovering Taylor’s music was magical, it was an escape and a way to express myself. I was looking for an idol but I found a role model, a best friend, a big sister. It’s weird how much I can feel Taylor this close when she hasn’t even meet me.
Living in my country for the last 6-7 years hasn’t been easy. My country has experienced the worst crisis, for all of you that don’t know I live in Venezuela and also was born in it. The government has damaged the least we have had in the last years and we literally are living in the worst situations. People don’t have enough money to EAT, BUY MEDICINES (if you can even find them), the electric system is a mess and the insecurity increases every day. People are dying, people leave the country to find a better place to live, everything is hella expensive, and I’m still here trying to hold on to my faith and hope that one day, this will change.
This whole situation has influenced a lot in my life, since I can not buy the things I want, or can’t even travel to go and see my fav artists, they don’t come to the country cause is really insecure. So it been difficult to find a way to forget for a moment all the bad moments that happen every single day.
Even if this is for Taylor, I want the world and my swiftie family to know about my country, about how hard is for Venezuelan swifties to even get a copy of Taylor’s albums. I’m so sad that I may not be able to buy it in my country, still, I cannot be more happy for it to be out NOW.
Our love for you has been intact since day one, and for as much as we are going through, we are still with you, relating to your songs, supporting you, loving you, wanting to know you every day.
I believe that one day this whole bad dream will end and we will be able to breathe again. Taylor, I want to thank you for making these days of sadness, doubt, tears and fear, ones day that can go through. Even if it seems like I’ve been living this forever, for some reason your music, your strength, your wisdom and words.. only you, made me feel that there’s a chance for me to have a better life.
I’m still studying my career in collage. I’m on my fifth trimester of journalism or audiovisual communication. I wake up everyday feeling motivated and positive. I believe that walking through a bunch of rainstorms will prepare me for the next years of my life, I’ll be clean and will survive this thirst.
I’m happy, even in crisis, I smile and thank God for my life, my family/friends and for you. I love you baby, I know that one day we will meet and everything will be worth it. I thank you for always being constant when some people weren’t.
I’ve become stronger, I can define myself as a warrior, a fighter. It is cathartic for me to actually believe that I am like this cause I have gone through a bunch of rainstorms that washed me clean, that made me like this. You light up my world, you make me forget the bad, you replace it with only good things, and you are a blessing to me.
Hope you can read and feel the amount of love I have for you.
Venezuelan swifties will be by your side forever.