To the "Boys On the Stairs,"
Five years ago you took the world by storm as the biggest and newest music group since the Backstreet Boys. This is for you.
Thank you for being there when no one else was. It’s because of you that I have gotten through the hardest times of my life. You taught me that it’s OK to be weird and to just be myself.
Thank you for making music that we can connect to. Even though most of your songs are about relationships, and I'm too awkward for one of those, I know one day they'll come in handy when I eventually find someone as weird as I am.
Before you guys came along, I was in a really dark place. I had lost the meaning of happiness, because so many horrible things kept happening to me and to the people closest to me. I didn't care about anything or anyone. I was emotionally done with everything.
Then you guys strutted into my life, and that's when I could finally begin to see the small light at the end of a pitch black tunnel.
Now, here we are, five years later, and so much has changed. You guys have changed, and I've changed.
For five years, you guys have been the strength I needed to get through my everyday life. Now that I have a year of college under my belt, and I've come to terms with everything I've gone through, I'm confident that I can be own strength now.
This past year has given me the chance to figure myself out. I've made the executive decision, as the owner of my life, to make every day count, to step out of my comfort zone, go on adventures and just, overall, be more a more positive person. You guys gave me the tools to do that. I am not the same person I was five years ago, and that's a good thing.
You have given so many fans the same strength and confidence. None of us know how to adequately thank you, but we try our best.
Your music has kept all of us so strong over the years, and although things have changed since 2010, change is good. Things need to change so that you can grow and become even stronger than before. As long as you're here, we will be too.
All the love,
Darcy
