#glee-bye

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I THOUGHT CRYING OVER GLEE BEING OVER WAS BEHIND US AND NOW THEY HAD TO RELEASE THAT FUCKING LAST DAY ON SET VIDEO AND I CANT FEEL MY FACE IM SOBBING SO HARD IM GONNA DROWN IN IT

[tonguetiedbyyou]

Glee-Bye

     Glee was never a perfect show, not by a long shot, but like its imperfect characters, it was better that way. This show about a high school glee club should never have been as big as it has. Most shows are about heroes, superhuman or mortal, the big men and women on campus, so to speak. Glee had its share of popular characters, but it also celebrated the outcasts. The kids on the outside looking in, and that’s where it found its audience.

     When I found Glee, my freshman year of college, it was in its second season, and I had never felt more at home with a television series in my life. I felt lost, I still do at times, but this group of high school kids helped me begin to find my way. I learned how to be a much more accepting person because of Glee, both of others and myself. I gained worldviews that I had never had the opportunity to experience in my small south Louisiana town. Glee took me through a lot of great times, as well as quite a few bad. It taught me about love and loss, success and failure.

     It seems silly to say that a TV show helped shape the person that I am today, not in small, insignificant ways, but in major, life changing ways. Kurt Hummel and Blaine Anderson allowed me to accept my sexuality; I was able to acknowledge to myself that I was queer for the first time in my life because of their relationship and their courage to be who they were, no matter how hard it was at times. Rachel Berry showed me that it was okay to dream big and shoot for the stars, but to make sure that I appreciated what I already had in life as well. Quinn Fabray and Santana Lopez taught me that being a strong-willed woman was not only okay, it was admirable, but so was the sweet, loving, caring nature of Brittany Pierce. Tina Cohen-Chang taught me that standing up for myself was important, but so was being a good team player that strove to make those around me the best versions of themselves too. Artie Abrams made me understand that people are so much more than the things that hold them back. Finn Hudson made me realize how special life is, that I should enjoy every minute that I have on this earth.

     And Glee? Along with a million other lessons from countless other characters, taught me that ‘being part of something special does not make you special; something is special because you are a part of it.” I’m still a work in progress, and I’m never going to be perfect, but I am worthy of being alive and being special. I am important, even if I can’t see it yet. I deserve to be on this earth, living this life. Could it be better? Sure, it could, but it could also be worse. If I want better, I have to be wiling to put in the work and believe in myself, just like the New Directions did. I have to see myself right alongside of them, decked out in my red shirt and jeans, doing epic choreography to Journey, holding onto the feelings that this show has given me for five years: hope, love, and faith. Because “Glee, by its very definition is about opening yourself up to joy.”

[ohhthereuare]

is it possible to get your lungs swollen from crying so hard because I'm pretty sure this is exactly what's happening to me right now

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for the first time in my life I'm glad for living in Europe instead of US because that way I get to have glee for just one day more

[nightbirdmate]

How am I expected to be a functional human being when glee is ending today?

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it's only monday and I'm bursting into tears every five minutes so at this rate I don't think I'll make it to the finale on friday

[ohhthereuare]

what moves me the most is how we're not as scared of glee ending as we are we this fandom coming to an end because glee is more than just new episodes, it's what we have built here over the years, the sense of belonging and family and I believe that once a gleek always a gleek and we will never be able to let that go

[ohhthereuare]

okay I am done with sad glee blogging till the actual finale because at this rate I know I would have cried myself to death by this evening