The World is full of magic

Over the past nine years I have grown up watching One Tree Hill, since it started it was always my dream to go to Wilmington and meet the cast. For a lot of them years I felt like this was a totally impossible dream and with all the magic in the world it was never going to happen. So in some ways over the years that dream started to die out. I still watched the show and started to see the cast as my role model.

One of the characters in the show Haley, played by Bethany Joy Galeotti seemed to always stand out for me. As the years went on she very quickly became my role model, it was more than how she played Haley in the show that made me like her as an inspiring role model for myself. I started to take an interest in her and wanted to see what she was like as a person outside of her character. I started to follow her music and follow other projects she was doing outside of one tree hill.

Just from listening to her music and seeing the different projects Joy was involved in, I knew that I had picked a great role model to inspire me. When listening to her music I love how you can feel the message she is trying to put across and making the connecting of helping us all to look at the bigger picture in life. For me I loved that her music was channelling made me think about the deeper message. The music for me was a way to relax and get away from the outside pressure of life and just have some fun.

More recently Joy started up a blog and her own band Everly with one of her great friends Amber Sweeney who is another great role model for people. Together these ladies created great music that I have developed a great connection to and help me at different time in overcoming different experiencing in my life. When it came to Joy’s blog, I loved getting an insight into her world and seeing how she liked to view. For a while I was having a lot of bad experiences with friends and getting the feeling like they never really wanted to accept me as there friend. I knew that joy blog was always something that I could turn to and make me feel better in the darker days.

Last month my world changed and I got the chance to go to Wilmington and meet the cast and crew of one tree hill. It was the best experience of my life. All the people were so kind and welcoming, just for a week I felt like I was part of their big family. Getting the chance to meet my role model Bethany Joy Lenz was an unforgettable experience in itself. Joy is an amazing person. It was a pleasure to meet her and spend time with her on a personal level. She made my trip so special for me, showed me how to feel normal even with my disability.

I feel so honoured to have such an amazing role model, to be inspired and encouraged by every day in life. She is the most down to earth and caring person I have ever. Her attitude and outlook on life our amazing, I have seen first-hand how great a mom and friend she is surrounded by family and friends. I hope she knows just how great of a person she is to inspiring so many young people like me. Through sharing her own life experiences she has definitely changed my life, made me understand with the right attitude and the right amount of faith the world is full of magic.