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today, 10 years ago, was my very first concert; justin bieber on his my world tour. i honestly cannot put into words how inspiring this show was to me back then, and still is today. growing up, my parents didn’t have a lot of money, so i never really got to see my idols live.
i remember hearing the advertisement on the radio station in the car on the way home from the dentist and it said that justin bieber was going to be coming to my city on his first ever tour. i was really excited but my mother immediately reminded me that we were broke.
to say i was heartbroken was an understatement, justin bieber was my biggest inspiration and i loved him with my everything. i had a little bit of money saved up from birthdays and christmas gifts, but never enough to purchase even a single ticket for the show.
when i went to school the next day, everyone in my class was talking about justin bieber and how they were all going to the show. i wanted to cry because i was literally the only kid in my class who wasn’t going because my parents couldn’t afford it.
after a week had passed, i was still sad about not being able to see justin live. after school one day, i went to my elementary best friend’s house and we listened to my world and my world 2.0 on repeat, pretty much screaming the words to all of the songs. we were die hard fans.
my best friend caroline and i had everything in common, and we never EVER had a disagreement. when she told me she started getting into justin and falling in love with him like i was, we made our own tickets and backstage passes, pretending to have our own bieber concert.
since we had literally everything in common, her family wasn’t very wealthy either, so it turns out that i really wasn’t the only one who couldn’t go see justin and that honestly made me feel a lot better. i was still sad, but knowing i wasn’t the only one really helped a bit.
so, we decided to use our imaginations and creative liberties and had our own justin bieber concert. we took turns dressing up like him and we pretended to be meeting him and everything. it was the most fun i’d had in a long time.
after the “concert” we cleaned up the basement and all messes we had made, and that’s when her mother walked in. there was something in her hand that my 10 year old brain and vision couldn’t quite make out, but i was curious nonetheless.
she asked us what we were doing, to which we both responded “pretending to have a justin bieber concert” and she laughed then shook her head. caroline and i looked at her confused and i asked her “what’s so funny?” in a curious way, not in a rude way or anything like that.
tasha (caroline’s mom) smiled at us and simply responded with “why pretend to have a concert when you can just go to a concert?” and then she showed us the tickets. in her hand, were 4 tickets to justin bieber, on the floor, in the 17th row.
we really could not believe our eyes. we started screaming and jumping up and down like the excited little girls we were. caroline’s birthday was in december so the tickets were her VERY early birthday gift, and our other best friend taryn was coming with us too.
long story short, it was hands down the best first concert ever. tasha really had bought the tickets when they first came out but wanted to surprise us and she really did 
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🥺" title="Pleading face" aria-label="Emoji: Pleading face">. i will never ever forget that night. it might have been only my first concert but it’s my best so far.
i will be honest, i’m not a huge fan of justin anymore, right after the believe era started i was getting into one direction and whatnot, and justin bieber wasn’t really a teenage boy anymore, like i remembered him as.
however, my world era justin will ALWAYS have a special place in my heart. i love him with my everything. i still vibe to mw and mw2.0 pretty much everyday because that music era really means everything to me.
this thread was a bit longer than i had expected it to be, but i’m feeling very VERY nostalgic today and thought i’d share the story of how i got to see my very first concert. one to remember for sure. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💜" title="Violettes Herz" aria-label="Emoji: Violettes Herz">
