In the last year, I have been to some of my very first concerts. It is not as if i couldn't ever have gone to a concert before. I had the ability to go to one, and my friends had asked when I was younger. But as a frugal little middle school student, I never had the inclination to go to one. Well, first of all, when you haven't experienced something, you really don't know what you are missing. And I really didn't know what I was missing.

Going to a concert was not just something that I just checked off my bucket list without another thought. But it was so much more than that. I learned to appreciate our connection to music that ties us together.

I'm one of many who wears headphones to class, listening to all the songs that have been stuck in my head. But I always thought that it was my time. It didn't involve anybody. I thought music was just personal and only implied to how I was feeling. And while it is based on individual taste, it also spreads to a broader audience while we are in a setting like a concert or a musical or some event on campus. Music connects us all to something bigger than ourselves.

When you hear a tune, it has the ability to ignite an emotion that all of us have the ability to reach. The music we hear every day whether created naturally or through a microphone allow us to share similarities that we would never have realized.

There I was, screaming out the words to some song by one of my favorite artists, and one of the biggest things that I saw that there were so many other people doing the exact thing as I was, connecting with a level where even a salutation wasn't necessary because we all connected through the sounds within a room that I had never been in before.

Isn't that crazy and amazing to think about? You have the ability to touch a person's life by just something as music...something so casual that you do it while walking down the street when you are avoiding talking to anyone around you. It still connects you to the world. It still connects you to people that you would never know.