CHAPTER :
Thank You For Keeping Me Fighting
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Samantha Ridings   —   8 years ago

I'm a teenager in high school, and I admit it's really hard. There's the bullies and the backstabbing friends. About 7 months ago, I was really close to just giving up and swallowing a handful of sleeping pills. My sister knew about the Always Keep Fighting campaign and showed me this strange show called Supernatural. As soon as the pilot episode was over on Netflix, I was addicted. The more I kept watching, the more I realized that the way Dean fights for his little brother is what my sister is trying to do for me. The first episode of Season 4 rolled around and a very awkward angel in a trench coat walked into my life. He was really serious. So I looked up the bloopers and just fell in love with three dudes running around on set. One on a mini motorcycle, one extremely tall with beautiful hair, and another who sometimes dresses like a woman. There's also another whom I know as The King of Hell that I love too. I became curious about the Comic Con panels. I'd heard of them but never seen one. So when I clicked on one. I sat there, and I listened to Jensen, Jared, Misha, and Mark sitting there just talking. Then I found Jensen singing Simple Man, with Mark on the drums, which I was absolutely amazed by. All of these videos led to one that changed me. I found Jared talking about this Always Keep Fighting campaign. The things that were said brought me too tears because at that moment was when I realized that I don't need to impress anyone else, that I don't need to hide who I am and that I certainly didn't need to bend to society's rules. I took all four of these dweebs and made them my role models. Misha taught me to be myself, Jared taught me to love my family through the rough times, Jensen taught me to believe in myself, and Mark taught me to become who I wanted to be and not who anyone else wanted me to be. Now that I've realized these things, I've cut the bad people from my life and the bullying is becoming less frequent. There's nothing else I can say but all of you kept me fighting. If I'd given up so long ago, I wouldn't be able to enjoy the life I deserve. Thank you a million times to the moon and back for keeping me fighting. Thank you so, so much.

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