Why you need to attend a concert alone

I'm a music lover and ABSOLUTELY relish the live experience. I've been to countless shows over the years (big and small) in different types of venues and have experienced all sorts of genres. In August of 2019, I went to a concert ALONE, for the first time in my life, and LOVED it. What took me so long?

I was never really opposed to it I guess, but years ago, if I had no one to go with, I probably wouldn't have gone. Has that ever happened to you? Have you ever stopped yourself from doing something or have you ever missed out on something you really wanted to do because you had nobody to go with? If so, STOP IT right now. Here is what you'll experience at a concert alone, but on a whole other level.

Camaraderie.

Ok, so for you concert goers and avid music lovers out there, you know, there's nothing like sharing the music of a band you love with 10,000 other concert goers, or if in a small venue, 200 other concert goers. There's really nothing like the feeling of standing there, looking around the venue in the dark and seeing the crowd of people sway in slow motion with their arms up to a tune you're all singing to. Now, imagine you've gone alone; you have no distractions, no planning to worry about ahead of time and best of all, you don't know anyone there so there are no expectations of how you should or shouldn't act. For some, it is a license to act like yourself, show the side of you that you may not normally show. For others, this might already come easily, and if so, you're ahead of the game. But, if you haven't tried going to a show alone, I promise, it IS different.

Let loose and do what YOU want.

For me, this meant getting there early and getting right up to the front. It meant I could sing along at the top of my lungs, it meant I could let the crowd move me and completely immerse myself in the experience. It meant, I could be ME. It didn't matter that there was no one I knew there with me to share the experience because I was with a crowd of people who shared the same love of music and of this particular band. I was free.

Experience the music differently.

Freedom, to me, is letting go of your inhibitions. Have you ever just sat in fresh grass in the summer and watched the trees sway in the wind? Now apply that to listening to music. People often wonder why I listen to my music so loud in the car when I'm alone; in fact, I often stop hearing it even when it is that loud. That is because it envelopes me and takes me away. Live music does the same thing; and, when you're alone at a show, the feeling is ten-fold. It travels through your body and out in a burst of happy, reality-fading (just for a couple of hours), worry-free movement. Dancing? I'm not sure what it was, but I didn't care. I didn't need to. I was happy. I was me.