When I really started to like Justin Bieber was a little before he came out with his baby music video. I had met this girl who loved him but I didnt really know who he was. We started to become closer friends and I started to become a bigger fan. She had him as her phones background and I thought that was kind of silly not know who he really was or the messages he could send out to people. After he came out with his Baby music video I definitely became a huge belieber, I couldn’t get enough of him. I would come home and watch endless interviews, re-watch music videos, watch millions of “Funny moment: Justin Bieber” videos. I found out that he had Twitter and that is the one and only reason I created my Twitter. I follow him, along with his crew, best friends, mom and dad. After a little while I found you could have them sent to your phone. So, I wake up to reading Justin’s thoughts almost every morning. October 19, 2010 was the best day of my life. Me and the girl who introduced me to Justin went to his My World concert! Everything happened the way we wanted it to happen, besides maybe being OLLG. But, overall it was something we will never forget. Justin Bieber has inspired be because he has inspired me to chase after my dreams and to never look back, that anything is possible, and to keep thinking never say never when doubting myself. He has changed my attitude about things I didnt think that I would be able to do. My dream is to someday meet Justin and say thank you to his face. He doesnt know how much he means to me. I am a committed belieber and I will follow Justin in whatever path he decides to take. I’m a true beileber and will always will be.

-Taylor (tayweb6)

I discovered Justin Bieber by watching music videos on my TV when ‘One Time’ came up. After I listened to it I thought it was a good song. I looked him up on YouTube and I found all these videos of him so I clicked on one, then another, and after that I showed my mom and she thought he was really good and once he became more and more famous and came out with his song Baby and stared on Saturday Night Live and after all that I became a belieber! I went to his concert and got VIP to his movie and I just think Justin really inspired me with his song Never Say Never and his movie. I got his perfume too! This is how I found him and why he inspired me! Everyone told Justin he would never make it but look at where he is now! He came from such a little small town in Canada!

-Bayli (@bayligrl706)

I may not know him, but i know what makes me happy, and I know Justin is a huge part of it. I’m just another Belieber, I’ve never met Justin. I’m from India and it’s amazing that how Justin changed me and made me a better person. I had no self-confidence, I just lived a life to please others. Then this Canadian came, he taught me to never give up on my dreams, have faith in myself and most importantly he taught me to be myself. His songs are meaningful, it makes my heart feel good. He is so nice to everyone and that made me humble in front of his huge heart. He is the biggest superstar on the planet but to me, he is my inspiration. He inspires me, he teaches me through every step he takes. I am grateful with him for making my life worth living. He’s my lifesaver, he saved it by inspiring me to be a down-to-earth, huge-hearted and loyal person. He brought back my lost confidence and happiness. I owe him, and I guess most of us, beliebers do too. BELIEVE and NEVER SAY NEVER.

 -Ade (itsmeadrija)

September 2010 was the worst month of my entire life. I felt that my family was falling apart. Justin actually had a concert here on the same month. I was suppose to go but unfortunately my mom did not buy me tickets to his concert. I worked hard during the summer to get the money for the ticket. Anyway that month was just horrible for me and I never want to look back. Whenever something bad happens during the day I tried to hold back my tears ‘cause I wanna be strong for my siblings but I couldn’t. When everything cooled down I would listen to Justin’s song to calm me down. Listening to his music tells me that everything will be okay and it did. Now my family is stronger than ever. He inspired me to not look at the bad side of the situation but to look for the good side. He inspired me to do my best in everything. Those three words he keeps saying is the one that keeps me going through the day…NEVER SAY NEVER.

-@PattiJluvsJBieb

Justin Drew Bieber, a young, talented, thoughtful person. In other words, my hero. He gives me hope. He teaches his fans to never give up on their dreams. Singing was just a hobby to him, it wasn’t anything serious. He’d stay up all night singing his heart out, giving it his all. As he grew older he became more and more interested in music. All his hard work has paid off, now in life he is HUGE. Well I am a HUGE fan; I mean like you have no idea. I pray to God everyday that one day I’ll be able to sing for him. I have a voice, I think I could use it and share it with him. He’s my idol and I am very grateful to have been given a good voice. Justin Bieber, thank you for inspiring me to chase after my dreams.

-Melanie

Not everyone loves someone from the beginning right? I had come across Justin on YouTube. I thought he was amazing when I saw him. But it honestly didn’t stick. I stopped liking him for a month or so when his song “Love Me” came out. Then, I forced myself to listen to him. I started to grow on him. I was almost obsessed. But; like someone said, I’m not the kind of girl who would bag on his relationships with girls. I loved a lot of his ex’s. Like Caitlin; and Selena. I’m a big fan of Gomez, anyway. I’m not that girl who only likes him for his hair or looks. I like him for him. The boy from Canada who had a dream to live; and all he did was try. His ‘Never Say Never’ quote inspires me a lot; it’s like, if you want to be a dancer, who are you to be to stand in the way. If you want to dance. Dance like it’s your life. Live your dream to the max each day, and make sure you’re fighting for the dream you want. All he did was dream about becoming what he wanted to be; and he got it! There’s no way I can describe how much Justin does mean to me. I love him; but I don’t love love him. Because I don’t know him. I’m one of those ‘Belieber’s’ who can’t afford to go to a concert. I’m not saying that for your sympothy. I’m saying it so you understand. I believe it’s not about the concerts; the followings; the tweets who make you a belieber. It’s how much you support him! I support him like he’s my life.

-thegirlwhosheartisfried

I don’t even know how to begin. The first time I saw Justin was in his One Time video. I was little, I didn’t really realize how cute he looked, I was just watching the video. I liked him. But I think that was everything. He became more famous and my friends liked him more than before, and so did I. He was in magazines and on tv. When One Less Lonely Girl came out, I realized that I became a fan. I was so happy when I saw the video. It was like I felt something for Justin, he was so cute and adorable. I started watching his videos more. But then, Baby came out. The first time I saw the video I was like excited. I was like in love. I was like OMG. I made a Bieber twitter and started following other Bieber twitters/accounts. My English was getting better and I loved it a lot, I loved the Bieber tweets and I loved everything about Justin more and more. Everyday I was watching his videos on YouTube. Anyway, other music videos came out and I became a huge belieber. A really, really huge belieber. Or let me say it like this: I became a belieber. Not just a fan, but a belieber. I liked everything about him. Not because he was hot. I liked his personality, his beautiful eyes, his smile, the way he talked, the way he walked, EVERYTHING about him. The way he was treating his fans like they were everything to him. I realized that this kid had really chased his dream. This kid wasn’t normal. He wanted to make people smile, he wanted people to believe in their dreams. That touched me in a very good way. He made me smile. Since the day I felt something really good about Justin I believed in my dream. I was hoping. I really wanted to meet Justin, that was my biggest dream. I wanted to see him perform. He inspired me a lot. He is the only one in the world who taught me to never stop believing in my dreams. To always follow them. To ignore what other people would say. Just to believe in it and to believe in yourself. And my dream came out. I saw him in March, in Rotterdam. I didn’t meet him, but seeing him live, performing, made me one of the happiest girls on the planet. Because of him I was happy. Since day one to today Justin is one of the most important ones in my life. I will always support him. I will always want to tell him that I love him in a really, really much. I don’t know how to describe my feelings for him. Maybe I’m in love. Maybe it’s just because he means so much to me. If I ever will be able to talk to him, I will thank him for everything he has done without even knowing that I exist. I want to tell him that he’s amazing. To me he’s indescribable amazing. I really wish I can meet him someday. I wish that for every belieber. I wish that for everybody chasing their dream. But now, I just want to believe that someday my dream will come true. Now I just want to support him. And I always will.

-Yaren (@yaren_x)

The first time I have ever heard of Justin Bieber was when my friend showed me the video of him singing With You by Chris Brown. That’s when I first discovered who he was and his talent. At this time, I didn’t think I would be a really big fan of his. That same day I saw a preview of the music video for One Time during the credits of an MTV show. I instantly fell for his charm, his voice, and how cute he was. So I went on iTunes to look him up and bought his single, One Time. I went on YouTube to watch the full One Time video and I just started to like him more. I started listening to his music a lot and watched all his videos on YouTube. Then after about a few months, I made a twitter to support him and to stay connected with his tweets. I was always updated with what he said and I made sure I bought every album that he released. I went to one of his concerts during the My World Tour on July 17, 2010. That is the moment that I became the Belieber that I am today. I was always a fan but this was the moment where being a Belieber struck me. By the time his movie Never Say Never came out, that’s when I realized who Justin really was and where he came from. It made me realize how much work he put into his videos and his career. From then on, Justin’s hard work and dedication to his work inspired me to work harder and to never give up. I’ve gotten more stuff accomplished because I never gave up. Before Never Say Never came out, I would give up very easily on a lot of things, but now the movie and him have inspired me to do my best in everything that I desire to do. I know that I may never meet Justin Bieber but he will always be one of my biggest inspirations. Never Say Never.

-@AmberBelieber

How did Justin Bieber inspire me? Well, let’s put it this way, Justin is the reason I’m still alive right this second. I don’t think he realizes how many lives he has saved or how happy he makes us. About four years ago, 2007, my world started falling apart, I was caught in between family issues, and problems with people close to me. Eventually that led into depression, suicidal thoughts, cutting and an eating disorder. I was so young, yet ready to die. Anyways, I had just made a YouTube account with some silly name like “chocoholic” or something of that sort. I don’t even remember… but I do remember finding Kidrauhl’s page. He made me smile like no other. From that day one, every time I was feeling low, I would watch this adorable kid sing in his YouTube videos until one day I just stopped. Everything had become 10x worse. I just didn’t care about anything anymore; I was ready to give up right then and there because I couldn’t cope with anything anymore. Like I said, I had stopped watching Justin’s videos so I didn’t know about usher and Justin Timberlake and his single, but for some reason I decided to watch some of his videos (which I had downloaded onto my iTunes) but instead, the home page came up, and I saw the video “one time” at #1 on the music videos… I recognized the last name Bieber but I didn’t know where from (I didn’t know Justin as Justin Bieber, just as kidrauhl or Justin) So I watched the video and finally came into realization that it was the very same kid I found on YouTube. I was shocked. I had no idea he had been discovered. At that point I wanted to make sense of everything, I YouTube’d him and I came across the interview of Pattie discussing her past. I had no idea that his mother had gone through a lot of the same stuff I had.. And now look at where she is now- she’s the mother of the world famous superstar Justin Bieber. I don’t know what it is about her son that inspires me so much, or that makes him so special to me… I just know that god had a plan for Pattie to be a wonderful mother to a baby boy who would grow up to make people happy. God made sure that I found this boy 4 years ago, and again 2 years ago when I was at the point of giving up. God made it possible for me to watch Justin grow up and live his dream so that I would realize I could live mine too. Justin made me realize that if I give up now, I won’t achieve what I want, but if I keep trying and fighting through the hurt, I’ll get there someday. Maybe one day, I’ll get the chance to meet him in person so I can tell him how much he inspires me and how he really did save my life.

-@pargolhamidi

Dear reader(s), I want you to think, how amazing life is. How nice everyone around you is. How amazing YOU are. My name is Roxy. I live with my mom and my sister. What happened to my dad? He has a mental disease that will never be cured. I am 12 years old and I have moved between countries for 2 ½ years already. I am finally settling down. Now, since my parents are divorced we get some money from my dad. Since he was diagnosed with his illness he can’t give us any more money so we aren’t so financially safe now. Every year my mom goes away for a month, to earn us money. I am very attached to her so I get really sad. When we moved I didn’t have that many friends when she went away so I stayed at home and did my own thing. My own thing then was listening to music. Justin Bieber music. So for one month I listened to Justin’s music and really grew to love him. He is my idol and my hero. So my mom surprised me one day when she was away. She said we were going to a Justin Bieber concert. I freaked out. I got so excited. I became more and more in love with Justin than possible. I gained new best-friends and many new friends. I was super happy with my life. I went to the concert on December 18th, 2010. It was in Miami. It was by-far the BEST night of my life. I watched Justin preform my favourite songs, I waited 4 ½ hours after the show to catch a glimpse of him, and take pictures. Let me tell you, it wasn’t easy, but I managed to squeeze into the front of the gate to see him and when most of the screaming girls left with their mothers and fathers I stayed. My mom and sister wanted me to go but all I told them was, “Never Say Never, like Justin says.” Justin left the concert without coming outside to talk to his fans that night but I still remember looking at him in his red jersey, red basket-ball shorts, red cap and red supras. He looked amazing. I left home that night with a changed heart and an open mind. When I came back from that vacation I started seeing changes in my friends. They would start to exclude me. They would whisper and laugh at me and would say really mean things to me. Most of the time I would run home crying after school. They would call me fat, ugly, stupid, mean, dumb, and pathetic. They even had this one HUGE sleepover. Everyone was invited, even I was. Then they had a vote. A vote to see how many people wanted me to come and how many people wanted me to not come. Majority ruled and they didn’t want me to come. One of the head girls came up to me and said “Roxy , the sleep-over is cancelled, sorry.” And walked off. I was heart-broken. I liked those friends and they turned their backs on me. I had no one left to talk to in my grade. Then I thought about the thing that made them jealous of me. Justin Bieber. At the end of the year I won the Presidential Gold Award with a note from President Obama, and entrance into John Hopkins University Youth Program and a lot of pride. Justin always stuck with me, through thick and thin. Even if he didn’t notice. Now I may not be the prettiest belieber, or the smartest or the oldest, but I do know one thing, I am a belieber.

-Roxy (@rotflwithbieber)