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Taylor Swift’s Delicate Speech: a very necessary thread
If I had to take a guess and say the one thing that probably everyone [in this stadium] has in common, I think I would say that one thing would be...that we all like the feeling of finding something real.
![If I had to take a guess and say the one thing that probably everyone [in this stadium] has in common, I think I would say that one thing would be...that we all like the feeling of finding something real.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eaykp47WsAAwII7.jpg "If I had to take a guess and say the one thing that probably everyone [in this stadium] has in common, I think I would say that one thing would be...that we all like the feeling of finding something real.")
![If I had to take a guess and say the one thing that probably everyone [in this stadium] has in common, I think I would say that one thing would be...that we all like the feeling of finding something real.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eaykp46WAAE0aMJ.jpg "If I had to take a guess and say the one thing that probably everyone [in this stadium] has in common, I think I would say that one thing would be...that we all like the feeling of finding something real.")
Like...you know, finding real friendship
or finding real love
or somebody who really gets you
or someone who’s really honest with you.
I think - I think that’s what we’re really all looking for in life, and I think the things that can scare us the most in life are the things that we think will threaten the prospect of us finding something real.
For example, having a bad reputation, in our mind, could get in the way of you finding real friendship, real love, real acceptance, people you really fit in with.
Because you think to yourself, “what if they’ve heard something about me that isn’t true? What if they’ve got these preconceived notions about me that they heard from gossip? And then they never even wanna meet me, and then we’ll never know what could’ve happened.”
And I think that’s why some of us - meaning most, if not all of us, are sort of afraid of having a bad reputation. Because we’re so scared of something fake, like gossip or a rumor about you, or a name you got called, getting in the way of you finding something real.
And so when it comes down to that fear and that anxiety, it’s just all really delicate, don’t you think?
