On 2 March 2004, I attended my first big-time rock metal music concert. I wish I would have known how important that experience was. 🎸
The show was a birthday gift from the woman I was dating. It was incredibly generous because these types of tickets are never cheap, and neither of us was making much, if any, cash. That’s the lesson I should have learned that day and then taken with me for all the days to follow. Enjoy the time you have with the people you have today.
Unfortunately, it would take me many more days and years to get over my self-centered and selfish ways. Many more days before I could appreciate people for who they are and not what I imagined they could do for me. It would be many years before I could begin to reciprocate feelings of true friendship, camaraderie, love, and kindness.
The loss of all the people who would have made great people to have in my corner cannot be understated. The countless individuals who have come and gone, bearing gifts of compassion and kindness, are lost to me. Never again to be seen or heard.
I don’t know if I’ve yet paid penance for my sins, but I do know what I should have learned about myself and about the value of human relationships 7,809 days ago.
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