Vlogbrothers gave me something to look forward to three times a week; it is still something I look forward to. It also showed me how not alone I really was.
Hank and John saved my life and they don’t even know it.
It was 2009 and I was struggling.
Then, I stumbled upon Accio Deathly Hallows, my first Vlogbrothers video and my first introduction to the Wrock community. Hank and John helped me find a community who cared if I was alive or not. But it did much more than that.
Nerdfighteria gave me a purpose, to decrease world suck, to do good with my life, and so I slowly started to.
Vlogbrothers gave me something to look forward to three times a week; it is still something I look forward to. It also showed me how not alone I really was.
John struggled with mental illness and Hank suffered from an invisible disease: here were two people who understood what I was going through.
I have never met either of them and I’m not quite sure I want to.
I wouldn’t know what to say, besides thanks, and they wouldn’t understand what that single word means. Because there really isn’t a way to tell someone that they helped keep you alive in your
darkest hour, that they taught you how to smile again, how to laugh; that they gave your mother her daughter back.
Hank and John changed my life, so now I change others. I coach people with special needs and spend as much of my time working with them as I can. I do good wherever I can, because that is
what Hank and John taught me. That is how they affected me.
-Case (magischgal.tumblr)
