cathou_u2
Refugee
This is an essay on what does it feel to be a U2 fan, it's very personal but feel free to reply...coz here we are all bonolover or Mullen-girl or... They are absolutely The SWEETEST THING!!!
How does it feel to be a U2 fan?
It’s a journey that started in about April-May 2004…so, it’s about 1 year and a half that I know that wonderful band! U2 have now conquered the deepest of my entire soul, it makes my heart miss a beat each time I see or hear them play… I owe them much more then I’ll ever realize, for a start I owe them the emancipation of my soul! I’ll never forget the way that they make me feel when I listen at One, Sunday bloody Sunday, etc. They touch my heart, they make me feel something, something special, that we can’t describe…
It’s a strange but wonderful feeling that you can’t named! If I translate that feeling into something concrete it would be a sort of “Home of Feelings”! Because, basically U2, their music is connected with their soul, their thoughts, their emotions…So it’s true music!
It’s not some sort of music-made-for-sale! Like Hip-Hop or Punk-Rock or Pop. Rather should I say music prefabricated, with singers who don’t even write their own lyrics and when they do so it’s, most of the time, about despair or they bash someone over and over again…Its music on the surface, they don’t go deeper because they’re afraid of what they might discover! But I’m not here to make comparisons, even if there are a lot to make…
So, U2 are kind of “Home of Feelings”. Where you can come in but never leave (like a band, lol) I guess. They put their soul on the table and make music with it…and it usually or should I say, always turns out into beautiful! And with that, so easy but complicate technique, they make us feel millions of emotions, mixing and living together! They travel between pure joy to love, between longing to sometimes not sadness because it’s too down and if its sadness there’s always hope…
In the end you have to love to be challenged with your own emotions. I believe that a big part of U2’s music is a pure challenge with emotions, you express them and after you deal with the consequences…So, for a U2 fan it’s all about feeling emotions and being challenged by them. And if you’re challenged by them that mean that emotions (your own) are always in actions, mixing and pounding in your heart and in your head. To feel emotions and to be challenged by them it’s the pure meaning of being alive… because you’re feeling something! You’re not numb. U2 give me something that I can feel rather than just see or hear. But feeling emotions can be a lot to bear, feeling that thoughts are always spinning inside your head can be sometimes a little bit confusing. Because U2 always manage to get you to think with you heart and your head, rather than sit still and just listen. U2 put you on the tips of your toes; provoke your feelings in a kind of way, they want a reaction; they named feelings that you couldn’t put a word on it, they express what deep down people are feeling!!!
So being a U2 fan is to be connected constantly with emotions, we’re in the end connected with our heart! And it’s ok, because music is like that in the end, or it should be! So U2 is more than a thought, it’s a feeling, who’s now becoming part of my everyday living! To be challenged by your emotions, at first, but you also have to love in some kind of way to worship them! There so much more than their music and lyrics… You can’t just resist wanting to know what’s going on inside the brain of these four incredible Irish men’s. One word: Bono! He’s doing so much: trying to save Africa, end poverty, making world leaders aware… He’s an inspiring activist; he’s an inspiring person, period! He’s deeply concern and he really knows the meaning of the words: Respect, Equality, Love, Justice, Peace…He tries to live in harmony with those words and wants us to follow! I too happily followed!!!
Being a U2 fan is maybe also letting their music, rather U2, take us by the hand and lead us toward that beautiful place call: Home of Feelings! The major part of being a U2 fan is their music, their lyrics that have meanings…But a small part lay on our shoulder, you have to say: Yes to U2. In which way? In the way that you let yourself be all open to capture emotions and feelings and thoughts send by U2. You have to capture that “innocence” that lies in every U2 fan. It’s not platonic innocence, is the right to believe into something much bigger than you, to jump into it and worship it. To worship peace, love, justice, equality, respect…that’s a part of innocence. That belief is, or should be, in the heart of every u2 fan. That ultimately bring you to a sort of: JOY! Because, you’re a part of something, like a big family! You also feel warm, at ease with U2…because after hours debating on the meaning of One, you know that if one day you feel Stuck In A Moment, Walk On will be there to help you out! U2 is a positive force, guiding your way with their bright light trough life, through ups and downs. Because, who never smiled happily at Beautiful Day, thought about the beauty of the meaning of One or cried in pure understanding at Sometimes You Can’t Make It On Your Own??? Being a U2 fan is going all trough those emotions!!! Being a U2 fan means also that one day you had open your soul for them to come in and spread their beautiful message inside yourself. You had willingly agreed since that special day to bear the status: U2 fan. Sometimes it’s hard, you think you’ll loose balance or faith, but you sit back and remember that special day or the feeling that’s overwhelming you when you hear a U2 song…and without a doubt a smile spread over your face!!!
Being a U2 fan is being connected with the world, of his beauty and of his ugliness, it’s an everyday rally full of emotions. Being a U2 fan is maybe also one of the most beautiful things, a pure feeling of joy…because U2 is in the end even better than the real thing or just…The Sweetest Thing!
Ps: Thanks for giving me such a great life!!!
BRAVO!!!!
PRIDE
back on your face and in your heart......you are a U2 fan.
