Lower your head and shut up. For 20, 30 seconds long, it says nothing. I don’t even see his face. And then he raises his head and continues, and his voice is thick and drowned.
“It’s rewarding to be everything you were designed to be. And I think, at this point in my life, I’m right where I’m supposed to be doing what I think God wants me to do. And there is nothing else to fulfill ”.
May I ask what you were thinking right now, at this break?
“Yes. Uh. I just feel emotional because even this interview is like: It’s important. You had that desire in your heart to do what you do and you are doing it. And now I share what I think God put in my heart and you ask the questions in my brain, that you take that out of me and it’s beautiful. You are like me. We are all miracles, really ”.
His voice is as calm as it has been all the time we’ve been talking. But as he does these days, he keeps going. “You know, the fact of being here and having achieved it through all this has you’ve been through it, you know, just because you’re not in my position, I mean, I don’t know your story. I don’t know where you come from. I don’t know your story. I don’t know why you lived. But I know you haven’t had it all about peaches and cream, right? Like he probably did some shit on you no wants to do things sometimes and no lower your guard and no do what you feel driven and called to do. But you are here. And that is a miracle. “
Bieber means to you that you are also a miracle. He asks, “What can I do to cheer myself up?” It means: “You can do it. You are valuable. What you say about yourself or believe about yourself is not necessarily true. Just not. ”
“I don’t know if that brings you clarity,” Bieber says, speechless. Try to be less focused on the results of things. So in any case, ultimately, it’s okay. He smiles. “That’s just therapy for me.”
Zach Baron is the lead writer for GQ.
A version of this story originally appeared in the May 2021 issue titled “Amazing Grace”.
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