A couple of months after Zayn left the band, the remaining
members of One direction announced, that they were going on a hiatus and once
again this struck me like lightning.
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| One Directions' last performance |
But being a little older in 2016, I
understood why they were initiating this break and in a way, I felt happy for
them. That was the first time I saw them as actual human beings and not just
some strangers thousands of kilometers away. It was noticeable, that they
needed a break.
Around this time, I started to rearrange my priorities. I
realized that just because you want things to continue if they are not healthy
for everyone involved, you have to let them go. Even if it is hard. If it was
up to my thirteen-year-old self, Zayn would always stay in the band and the band would never stop touring and releasing new music, but that is not realistic and
if someone suffers in a situation like this, you should not be angry about the
decisions they made as a consequence. This is one important life lesson this
band/Fandom taught me.