"I'mma do the things that I wanna do, I ain't got a thing to prove to you"

     So, today at work someone randomly says to me, "Hanson is still making music?"  And of course, for a split second I was like "what the...? How the heck did you know to ask ME?"  But then I remembered, "Oh yeah, I'm the loony with "HANSON ROCKS" written gigantically across my back windshield.  

     I realized that I had forgotten it was there.  And this might not seem like that big of an oversight to some people, but I assumed that the expectation of ridicule that goes along with driving around with the word "Hanson" on your car would have reminded me that it was there.  So I realized that I'm no longer ashamed.  AT ALL.  I may have been hasseled for 11 years, but I emerged victorious and undaunted.  

     People often wonder why I am so attached to them.  Why my love of Hanson goes so far beyond normal music fan love.  And I think part of it is BECAUSE I've had to live with the constant contempt and blind hatred that people have for them just because they wanted to start making music young.  No matter how you look at it, Hanson has always inspired an unusual amount of hatred and the fans have had to live with people treating them like they are stupid, immature, ignorant, etc.
     
     But because they never gave a crap about what people thought about them, we all learned to do the same.  And it seems that over the course of several years, some of us have learned to apply this attitude to our lives overall.  So, basically, if anyone's wondering why I love Hanson so much, it's because they taught me not to give a crap if no one understands it.