As you know all too well the summer is an amazing time for concerts and festivals. They make summer the best season out there because you can take in the great weather and have an awesome time doing so. However, when the curtains close on your favorite concert this summer you will experience several stages of musical withdrawal.
1. The main set being over.
In this stage you are at the realization point that the set list is over. At this point you have now heard a variety of your favorite songs, live by the musical act and don't want the night to end. Thus, leaving you as one of those fans screaming for an encore.
2. The encore has ended.
The musical act has just played it's final one or two songs for the venue. You have just finished enjoying the greatness of the live presence of your favorite musical act. You are on an emotional, musical high and you think you will never come down. Now you also have to battle the soccer moms and wannabe groupies in the parking lot as you fight over not being let into the turn lane for the exits. All taking place at the same time as you hear the music of the act you just saw live blasting from the other cars in the lot.
3. The day after.
You have just slept in way past the normal time you would normally wake up because you couldn't sleep after still being super excited from the concert. You now reach for your phone and look to see if your concert experience really happened or if you were just dreaming. (Thankfully it did really happen and you have pictures and videos to prove it). From this point on you will constantly reach for your phone to show your friends and family your pictures and videos from the concert (whether they ask or not).
4. You continue to relive your concert experience.
Every time you are asked about your concert by anyone (literally anyone) you feel obliged to tell them in full detail of what happened at the show and then show them the pictures that you have looked over roughly 4,000 times at this point. You begin to realize that the concert is really over and that you have to wait until the next one to see your favorite band again.
5. You start to feel sad, yet eager to find out when they are coming to your city again (or go see when they are going to another city near you).
You get hit by a sudden wave of sadness regrading the fact that all of your excitement leading up to the concert is over and feel like crying (not actually crying just crying on the inside). Then you will relatively quickly text your friends about how they should go with you to see the musical act in concert another time. You fantasize how you will magically find tickets for front row super cheap and that you will be able to get the days off of work in order to attend the same concert another time in the near future.
This then typically leads to you purchasing more tickets for another concert, and the cycle restarting. However this time your pre-concert experience will be filled with your parents questioning your money management skills and your friends questioning your borderline addiction to concerts and music.
Not to forget to mention you have way too many concert photos on your phone like so..
