To Taylor swift I hope your day or night is going well, If I had the opportunity to meet you there is one thing I would want to thank you for and although I'm aware I will more than likely never have the opportunity to meet you I want to thank you so much, your music is one of the only things that have kept me going over the last four years. If you were to read one out of any pf the letters I post to you this is the one I would want you to read this is my story of why your music means so much to me and I will forever be a fan of yours. When I was 16 my family immigrated from a small town in NZ to Perth Western Australia this time was incredibly hard for me. For the first six months of being in a new country I was homeschooled and at January of 2010 I started at a school in Western Australia it was during this time I was bullied I was completely miserable and the one thing that made me happy was listing to your music , as soon as the school bell rang I would head for my bag and plug my ears with my iPod and turn on you and listen to you my favourite songs would be to listen to those that made me happy when I was in nz , some days I would be close to tears and your music filling my ears made me happy and at least if I was going to cry prevent me from crying till I made it to my parents car or had gotten off the bus. Due to the bullying Ieft school a year early and thankfully got into uni early however the effects from the bullying were still there and five months into starting uni and two weeks after my 18th birthday I had lost over 10kg and was told I had developed anorexia and was told I needed to be admitted to hospital. While in hospital after most meals being forced to eat and after rest period I would listen to your music often crying from the shame that came from eating , there are so many times I can recall that a nurse would find me crying listing to your songs (the other girls I think got so sick whenever they came into my room and hearing your music playing because it was always on). When I was in hospital you released the speak now world tour dvd and I was so excited so I ordered and would watch it on repeat on my dad going into the place of enchantment and fairy tale that it offered me. I was in hospital when you announced that you were coming to Perth for the speak now tour and I remember buying tickets being so excited , I used the tickets as motivation for me to eat so I could be discharged from hospital so I could see you , so I could see my hero in person. I have to say I almost didn't get discharged in time thankfully I reached my discharge weight and was discharged three days before your concert , it was a magical experience i lined up for 8 hours at the gate and was holding on to the barrier the whole concert ( I had also Gotten up and gotten to work early did a 4 hour shift and then at 12 went and weighted in line) it was worth every moment. 5 months later I was re admitted to hospital as I relapsed and once again your music became a crutch for me I listened it to escape my reality , I was tubed for the third time and normally a procedure the nurses would sedate me for this time they decided to try when I was awake ( I had problems previously with the sedation and what not ) so as the nurse came into my room to put the tube in I had asked her if I could please play your music all I could focus on when she was doing it was listing to love story and escaping to a place where this wasn't happening again , she got the tube in with two songs and said it was the most random way she had ever put a tube in . During my 10months in hospital (I relapsed 4 times and lost all the weight so over a 18month period I spent 10months in total in there ) It was listing to you that got me through everything , watching interviews , listing to your music , watching you in the Hannah Montana movie , watching the convert dvd on reapeat your music helped me through the most difficult time of my life , thank you for providing me with a escape , for providing me with a enchanting world , letting me hear about your experiences , for letting me escape , for being something I could sit and cry to , thank you for being my inspiration and role model thank you so much , people don't understand how something as simple as music can provide someone with so much hope. I'm forever going to be grateful to you because of this , I'f I didn't have your music to escape to I don't know how things would have turned out. Xoxo R
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