An Open Letter To Lena Dunham

An open letter to Lena Dunham

(Its about to get personal on this roller coaster be prepared)

Its 12 minutes past eleven on a Monday night I haven’t been to sleep in the past two nights because someone (me) thought it was an excellent idea to try and watch the first two seasons of the sopranos once again in two days, a little disclaimer its not a good idea and you will only get to episode ten of season one before you think you’re meadow soprano.

 I’ve been completing whether it was a good idea to write this open letter to Lena Dunham for three reasons

One: Lets be honest she probably wont ever see this piece and that’s fine because if she ever did somehow stumble across this piece of writing or this blog I would cry hysterically for two days straight and probably (most definitely) piss myself.

Two: as much as I hate to admit it because I see myself as some sort of magneto of emotions Lena has weirdly helped me and kind of moulded me into a person I don’t think I would be without her work and just her herself genuinely and I guess this open letter is a thank you of some sorts to her and everything she’s done so far.

Three: it seems I’ve forgotten what point three was so I might as well start writing what I’m actually suppose to be saying another disclaimer I’m listening to one direction I don’t know how I’ve got here but harry styles really isn’t helping the situation at hand.

So I guess I should start off by saying thank you to Lena for everything she’s done so far, after being told two and a half years ago (I know I’m late I apologise) that I should start watching a show called girls because it would literally change my life and that I weirdly reminded everyone of Hannah I didn’t really understand why this show was such a big deal and then I started watching it and within ten minutes I knew that this program would fuck me up and Christ on a tricycle was I right.

 So after basically watching all three or maybe four seasons within three days I knew that this was the sort of program I would get so attached to that the characters become part of my every day life, a bit like when I watched all nine seasons of x files in a week and I was convinced there was an alien in my attic. But I didn’t see why everyone loved Lena so much, don’t get me wrong I was thankful for how truthful and how real she was within her representation of what being a women was like and what being a writer was like in the modern age, I was thankful for how she showed what it was actually like to be this person that I somehow felt so connected to, like she created this character just for me.

Within two episodes I was attached to this character that represented and still represents so much of myself, but I didn’t know that yet, ever since then I’ve been enchanted by this show and this wonderful character, when she was sad I was sad, when she’s dancing around her room I’m low-key doing the same but however when I dance I end up looking like a baby horse that’s just discovered its got legs.

 Then recently for my birthday one of my best friends (shout out to Ruthie thanks mate) got me Not That Kind Of Girl because for nearly two years I said I would read it and of course like any book that everyone seems to be talking about it , it had mixed reviews and then within a week of being given the book I had read it cover to cover including the introduction and I never read them, that’s when it hit me that she understood, everything she had written about her personal experiences and stories somehow fitted with mine it was like something clicked within myself and I felt that someone finally understood me which is weird because she’s now 29 years old and I’ve only just turned 18 I haven’t experience any of these things that she’s experience (well maybe some of them actually a lot of them which is a bit weird) but she understood.

 And now after watching the last two episodes of this season of girls weeping into my bowl of popcorn I now understand why Girls and Lena Dunham are so important to todays society and the world of social media, that we live although she has made me sob so hard that I did just sneeze popcorn.

So in conclusion I guess this is just a thank you to Lena for her amazing work and words and everything she’s done so far not just for me but for such a massive audience she’s taught young girls that its okay to be weird and different and to just be the person you want to be not the person everyone is, not the person who follows every trend just to fit, she taught me that wearing a neon fishnet tank top and pink leggings could be a look if you pulled it off with confidence and so many other things that I cant remember but she’s taught me so much already and I’m so stupidly thank you for Lena Dunham because she’s exactly what this generation needs a truth teller.