The euphoria that is associated with a concert is widely experienced, but it is seldom able to be put into tangible description, let alone make sense to anybody who hasn’t experienced it firsthand. Concerts are a journey with many stages that take place over the course of weeks, even months, and the unpredictably exciting nature of the experience amplifies the strength of the emotions felt. The complexity of the situation is frequently overlooked, mostly because many believe that the emotional effects of a concert start and end with the opening and closing song. However, the mindset extends far before and beyond that. Due to my embarrassingly lengthy list of concerts that I have attended in the past few years-- which consists of everything …show more content…
This mindset is easiest to slip into, due to the fact that the ecstatic energy is nothing less than contagious. Strobe lights flash, bass vibrates the vacancy in your ribcage, and thousands of people scream, purely out of adoration for the music. It’s cathartic, to say the least. There is not a single circumstance on earth that has the ability to unapologetically coax an unabashed and jubilant spirit from every human in the room. While in the midst of the unashamed excitement of the concert, the best possible feeling is felt when the realization is made that nothing else necessarily needs to matter in that moment except the concert. Any weakness leaves your body, and is then replaced by an enlightened presence. The urge to sit subsides, all thirst has temporarily waned, and all of the stressing done in the previous months is over. The feelings of complete freedom from your cares are too precious to not be embraced, because the moments in which the concert is actually happening are fleeting. The opening song ends, and in a matter of what seems to be only a few minutes, the encore is being …show more content…
The harsh house lights have been switched out for the colorful stage lights and the crowd starts to filter out of the venue. The floor is left a clutter of plastic cups and confetti dribbled with sweat, left as a reminder of the harmonious chaos that just occurred. Even after exiting the venue, the pressing responsibilities of reality don’t carry enough weight to take priority over the awestruck state that a truly phenomenal concert should leave you in. Eventually, after a solid night of contented rest, the immediate effects of the concert wear off, and the long-term effects begin to take shape. Driving to work a month after the concert, you may hear a song which was performed by the artist which you saw live, and rather than hearing whatever signal the radio produces, you hear the version that was played at the show, complete with a near recollection of being able to observe the delighted shrieks of the crowd ringing out around you. Or a single picture from the concert is glanced at, and all of a sudden, you’re teleported back in time to your exact spot in the venue, enthralled and exhausted in the most satisfying way. The reminiscent joy that concerts provide live in the back of our minds to be appreciated when it seems as if the joy in present life is