The Crafty Side of Life: An obsession...?

Friday, April 19, 2019

An obsession...?

In the spirit of trying to catch up with what happened last year...
I have a confession to make...Aside from knitting and yarns, and handcrafts... I have another obsession...which is my favorite band. In the early 2010's I heard their music here and there in the radio, but when I decided that I like them enough that I want to go to their concerts, it took me about 1.5-2 years to actually get there. I was still going to university, and something always came up. A test, and exam, working in the big craft fair in the castle, Chris's acident...
But when I finally got to there... The first time I saw them live I was awestruck. I mean there is that guy, coming out to the stage, and he is like bringing his heart and soul in his two hand and offering to the audience. He is so honest, and such positivity toward life is pouring out of him...

Over the years I developed a deep interest in them, so much that people messaged me when a concert popped up here or there... Yes, I did went to a lot of their concerts, but last year this interest turned into an obsession, and as result I went to even more of their concerts...

Oh, yes, many of my friends thought I am crazy, some even thought... but at my age I know better than that I think :-)

After the concert, where we ended up dancing in the water...

The famous beard pulling picture... (Never say to me that I do not DARE...)

Over time I got friends with a bunch other fans like Hajni, whose big change in her life we celebrated together...where else, that at a SZBB concert....(of something else happened there, but I tell you about it later)..

Or Bea, who joined us in KOBUCI in the fall..

Just because in the front row there are always the best people, (beside me, LOL), like Eszter.

To be honest, this was just as much about them, as much about me. That in the first time in my life I COULD. That I had the money, the means, the time, in short I arrived in my life to a point that whenever a concert popped up here or there I could just shrug my shoulders and say "okay, let's go"... that I COULD by the tickets, I could travel there, I had the time... I enjoyed that just as much as the concerts themselves.

So much, that I believe that I got "the fan who travelled mos to their concerts" award and even overturned the record of the number of concerts any fan went in a year...