Please, go to a concert where you don’t know the band.

Go in blindly.

Let your friends drag you along and show you the music they love, even if you don’t know a single lyric.

Learn. Keep adding and expanding and growing your inner being by discovering more things that make you feel something.

Fall in love with the people on the stage that you are just now hearing and seeing for the first time.

Dance because you can. Dance because the music you hear isn’t something that you know by heart, but because it is something new that moves your soul.

Don’t think, just feel. When you don’t know any of the words, you can hear the chords played on the guitar and the beat banging from the drums even louder.

Close your eyes and feel the pounding in your chest and the vibration throughout your body as every beat of the bass touches all of your nerves at once.

Notice the people around you. See who’s there for the band and singing along to every song. See who doesn’t care about the person behind them. See who’s watching the concert through their phone, switching between taking pictures and recording the entire show. See who’s like you, who is maybe just there for someone else, and who isn't.

Find the songs you love. Ones that you’ll go home and look up on YouTube before you go to sleep.

Buy a cheap ticket and don't stress about the money. Sit on the lawn, or in the nosebleed seats, or push your way through the crowd.

Do it. Just live and breathe, and don't worry one bit about what the people next to you think. I promise you won't regret the $25 you spent experiencing new things with your favorite people.