Contemplation

I attended a Lindsey Stirling concert last night. It was quite an experience. She is creative, and energetic, and passionate, and amazing, and it all comes out in the performance. She is a person following a passion that everyone said would never work, and every night she thanks her audience for making a dream a reality.

What does that mean for me? Well that is part of what this is contemplating. I have passion and dreams and I am pursuing one, but another refuses to go away. What do I do?  I don't know, but either way, changes are in my future. Last night was an important night for that on so many levels.
Last night, I felt uncontrollably happy for the first time in over a year. Last night I decided that I need let my heart get broken again, and in fact, I should pursue that end. Also, last night I dropped my keys, and I haven't found them yet. Finally, last night I made a pretty important life decision, that I will talk more about in the days ahead.

Also, I can't say enough about how awesome Lindesy's shows are, but the thing I want to emphasize is that she honestly cares about her audience, and she made that apparent time and time again. I felt that. That is the thing I learned about shows last night. Shows aren't about entertainment, and they aren't about an act performing. They are a strange sort of relationship. We give Lindsey love and she gives it back. It's not extremely personal, but it is there. It used to be I saw shows as a check-mark of people I need to see. Last night, I didn't see it as a check-mark, I saw it as the beginning of something that I will keep doing my entire life. Her life, however distant, is a part of mine in a way. I will keep going to her shows and listening to her music as she makes it. That is the cool thing about following an artist. I do it with both comic artist and musicians. another example is Ed Sheeran, who released an album that day, but it was already sold out when I went to buy it. (Very cool and I have tickets to his concert in September.)