Music has always been a big part of my life.
Ever since I could remember, I have been around it. My mom always played music and played instruments and my father was a DJ. My brother learned a ton of instruments as well. I joined my school's band in elementary school. I was in band through middle school and high school as well. I was also a part of my high school's chorus.
Music has been my safety net. It has been the one thing that has consistently been available when I needed it. As long as I could remember, I could find something to listen to or play when I needed something to match my mood or make me feel better.
I listen to music when I am sad, when I am happy, or just because. It has been there for everything.
Going to concerts has always been on of my favorite things relating to music.
Concerts feel like home to me.
"How do you feel more at home in a place surrounded by strangers" is one of the biggest questions I get asked when I say that. And my answer is "easily."
Concerts are more than just a place with a bunch of strangers. It is a place to share a common interest in a single place.
People come to concerts because of the bands and music experience. People at these shows have the same interest in artists or bands. Strangers come together for their interest in that artist or band.
Concerts are places to forget what is going on in your world for a few hours and relax.
I feel better going to a concert than any other place to forget about my stress and forget about my life problems. Concerts help me relax by distracting me from what is going on with the music of an artist I'm really into.
Concerts are a way to make friends.
Believe it or not, since concerts are a way of bringing strangers together, they connect and often become friends since they already have something in common. Making friends at a concert is not hard when you talk to a stranger about music.
The feelings concerts give me makes me feel like I belong somewhere.
With the music pulsing through my body, from the speakers, the bass and the thrill of singing along, I feel like I am on top of the world. I never felt more comfortable than I do when I am at a concert. The music gives me a sense of safety and belonging.
As a person that never really fit in with groups or stereotypes, I realized that the people that enjoy the same bands and artists as I do are like me. If I fit in anywhere, it is at concerts that the music gives others the same feeling it gives me.
Concerts are where I want to spend my life.
Let me face it, I never was any good at playing instruments so becoming a famous musician is definitely out of the picture. But I want to be surrounded by that atmosphere for the rest of my life.
I always imagined what I would want to be when I grow up, and now I have decided... A music journalist. So I can spend my life around the one thing that has never failed me or let me down.
