Like most of us, music is a very important part of my life. There are songs for any mood or situation I’m in. By listening music there are artists you enjoy the most, so they become your favorite artists. Their music is like your soul is speaking, like a good friend who knows you very well and cleaning your apartment becomes actually funny with.
A big highlight in life for a lot of us is to see our favorite artists life on stage. We vibe with them and houndreds or thousands of people and have a great time! Awesome!
So it’s a great choice to call your friends, open the website of a ticketseller and order some tickets of your most favorite band. In our case it’s the legendary pop-punk band ,,Blink 182’’.
But there’s a huge challenge: As bigger our favorite artists are growing, their audience is growing. Sounds great — and it is!
There is a point where it can become hard to get a few of those tickets, especially if the band you want to see had a reunion and is playing 3 shows in a country with millions of citizens. Another thing is, that Blink covers a huge span of generations. My former neighbour is almost twice as old as me and a few summers ago we were sitting in his living room and listen to the earlier Blink 182 albums having a good time.
So the number of competitors is even higher than it already is.
Just to make a fancy story short — my friends and I didn’t got any of those tickets for the Blink 182 Tour 2023.
As you would probably expect, we all were very mad. Some just a bit, the others had a really bad morning, like me.
This feeling of not owning a ticket for this show dictated my whole day. I had so much to do, I even forgot to take the walk with my dog in the noon, because I was so hooked on this topic. I spent hours of complaining and debating about this failed ticket purchase with my friends in our chat-group, talking about economy and how greedy the entertainment industry is. We talked about politics and the capitalism and the pandemic with all their struggles and side-effects.
Hours were literally wasted and I started feeling bad about this bad mood so the mood has becoming even more worse than it already was.
Later in the afternoon it was enough for me. I put my phone in flight-mode and took a big walk with my dog. Just by allowing myself to leave the situation and going outside, this whole rolling snowball of madness has melted down in just a few minutes and has become a quiet, calmy lake of freedom.
The freedom to notice that even this bad event still wasn’t satisfying, it also really wasn’t worthy this stress-levels I had.
So I asked myself ,,What the hell happened today?“.
My answer was: loss.
Loss? I even didn’t own these tickets before. So how could I lose them?
I looked into my dogs eyes and she told me: ,,It’s not the loss of the tickets. It’s about the loss of that feeling, having a good time with your friends and the band.“
Amazed and also a little scared by the fact that my dog was talking to me, I was struck by her thoughts. But I think she was right.
I was looking forward to this concert and the day with my friends so much that I was really hurt after this disappointment. It hurt to know that that day would not come without luck. So all this anger isn’t so much because the whole world is stupid as because I was hurt.
Even it’s very sad not watching Blink live, there are at least a hand full of great bands I could watch instead.
So the variable I had to exchange wasn’t whether I had a nice day with my friends or not, it was just the event.
I called my brother, we checked out some tour dates and bought tickets for Bring me the Horizon in our hometown. Happy me.
Yes, there is some hope that there are some tickets on eBay or some other reseller pages, but that would just be a happy option. I no longer make my inner peace dependent on any ticketing systems so quickly.
Have a good one!
Phil
