I know that it's been a while posted on here, and I am so sorry for that.
This is going to be a short, but very important blogpost to me. This is something I really want to throw out there for you guys, no matter who you are or where you're from: the fact that you read this shows that somehow you're caring enough to read a little message that someone in this big, big world has posted. You're basically spending precious moments of your life reading this, but you want to read, otherwise you wouldn't be reading this (logic himself). But today I want to talk about something that I can't even say in my own house. It's something they never will let me do, yet here I have faith in my parents that they'll allow me to, but they will never understand it; and I'm okay with that.
I'm talking about a meet & greet. Meet & greets are "hella" expensive. That's true, but if you can understand it, you know it's totally worth EVERY.SINGLE.DOLLAR. Because a meet & greet is barely about the things you get in my opinion. So you get some cool merch, a picture and some precious time to have a (very) little chat. That's it...for some people. To me it's the need to meet that person and the feeling you'll get must be magical, almost surreal.
We all want to meet people for different reasons: you've been a hardcore fan for ages, you have a story to tell, you just want to meet them,etc... My reason? I feel like in someway I have to meet them, because I have this special feeling, something I've never had before because of them. It feels like I got touched by an angel who gives me comfort in my own thoughts while no one else can do that. That's such a precious and special thing that I just want to stand there, for a second in wonderland, just to feel it; to see the angels that've touched me and blessed me.
The people I want to meet are small and so huge at the same time. The biggest rockband in the world that can do things that no one else has doen before. They've a worldrecord for longest tour, they've send a song to space and they have the most dedicated
[Quick introduction]
Tomo, Shannon and Jared.
Thirty Seconds To Mars is an American (alternative)rock group formed in 1998. Currently the band has 3 members: Jared Leto (lead-singer), Tomo Milicevic (guitarist) and Shannon Leto (drummer). The band currently has 4 albums named 30 Seconds To Mars (2002), A Beautiful Lie (2005), This Is War (2009) and Love Lust Faith + Dreams (2013). They're currently travelling the world with their Love Lust Faith + Dreams Tour. In 2012 they premiered their first ever documentary called "Artifact"(it's about their lawsuit with EMI where they were sued for $30 million) and in December 2013, the documentary was digitally released.
I recognized their song "Closer To The Edge", which means that I've heard them before on the radio. Last year I fell in love with Up In The Air, as it was my jam for months, but that was all. In November-December 2013 I fell in love with "City Of Angels" and literally lost my everything in a brand new wonderful world.
The person in the band that I fell the most in love with has to be Jared Leto. And he's the reason I'd go for a meet & greet. He is the most important man in my life and my hero. I don't want to spend too much time focusing on him (though he deserves it) because it's about Thirty Seconds To Mars as one beautiful band.
The sad part about this everything and my love for them is that my love came too late. On November 11, 2013 they played a show in my country which I sadly haven't joined because I didn't really care about them back then. But the thing is, when they'll come back , there's an 80% chance that my mom will buy me a concert ticket. But that's not the only thing my heart desires. My heart desires a meet & greet, which is almost impossible to convince my mom to buy because a year ago it has been all over the news that Justin Bieber basically ignored his fans during the (way too) expensive meet & greet. But the thing is, that Justin Bieber is a completely different person and artist from everyone else in the world. And so is Thirty Seconds To Mars an unique band in our world, and they should be seen like that. They have a very special relationship with the "fans", as been told by many people. We have a cult ,a community ,a family in this "fandom". And that makes it so different. The band ahs dedicated 2 music videos to their in which some of them were interviewed and there are so many clips of US. Not of them, of US. Together, the power that we have, is mind-blowing. The videos which I'm referring to are "Closer To The Edge" and "Do Or Die". Every concert at least 25 people go on stage. They just randomly pick you out an you gotta get on that stage. Whether it is for 3 "Up In The Air" (where they pick out a lot of people to get on stage), to introduce a song, to have a little chat,etc.. They do those kind of things. And we all know how hard they work for us, because they abrely take a break. If they aren't touring, then they're attending award-shows or Artifact-screening, or they might be doing another VyRT (which is for me very difficult to explain because I, myself, do not have anything that I've seen of it) or they might be doing interviews. They've once said while accepting an award : "We love you more than life itself." and they do, they really do.
But the main reason I want to meet them is because they have taught me how to dream and that it is okay to dream, which asks a lot of faith and support. And if you look at what you get in the meet & greet (which you may not forget that we're talking about 3 people), it actually isn't that expensive.
Well, this turned out longer than I thought :P but thank you for reading this though! Much appreciated.
I'll post again on here soon ;) .
Much love xoxo,
Ciska ♥
