Be your own anchor

And Zayn’s story is NOT a sad story. It’s a story about being true to yourself and fighting for your own happiness, sometimes even against yourself. It’s about being brave and overcoming obstacles after obstacles and keeping your head up. It’s about success and being proud of who you are. Zayn’s not a sad story, he’s a story of triumph.

the same people who always come crawling out of the woodwork to offer their irrelevant opinions every time zayn does or says literally anything they deem as ‘drama’ so they have an excuse to ‘drag’ him will ignore this lmao. or dismiss it instead of actively scrutinising how their own behaviour relates to what he is saying. like it’s so telling that a great majority of the people on here/twitter (mainly 1d stans) only bother to talk about him when they can ridicule him or try and drag him, while actively ignoring him talking about his ED and mental health. 

prob because saying something about this means admitting theyve been assholes

also not to be that person but

remember how harry got a whole twitter trend for like 24 hours bc a fan said his hair was greasy or something equally stupid

zayn’s mental health will never get the same attention or sympathy from these same people because doing so will mean admitting that 1d was a toxic environment for him and we all know these people value 4d more than they do zayn as a human being 

All this leads me to a consideration tbh: honestly if you know a friend of yours struggled so much/still does how can you go around mocking him that bad? The nerve people have of dismissing other people’s struggles and feelings like that, it makes fee sick. This isn’t new or anything but it’s making me feel even worse right now than it ever did in the past 1+ year. I stand with people who are compassionate and and understanding and know how important empathy is. If you don’t have those qualities I can’t even think of taking yourself seriously as artists and songwriters because music simply reflects who you are, I don’t believe one sec people who say that art and personality are two distinct things. I never did. I just can’t. Zayn’s music speaks to my soul because he speaks to my soul. He puts out good music because he is a good person, and I feel his music because he’s brave enough to make me feel it. He questions himself, he reflects upon himself, he talks about himself, and that’s when I know how good of a person he is. People make songs about others all the time, and it’s so difficult to talk about ourselves, but he took the risk after all he’s been through and it says a lot about what kind of deep, reflecting, intelligent, honest person he actually is.

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