"I dare you to lift yourself up off the floor."
I feel like the man who wrote those lyrics has been in my size 8 shoes. Not just that song, but every song that he sang I related to. I cried during one song, I smiled through a few others, and I shouted and danced to the majority of them. The song that produced tears wasn't sad, but it brought me back to that moment in my life that I NEVER want to revisit (although i remember it at least once a week). Yesterday was the eerily perfect day to be reminded of all these lyrics. The incident that occurred brought me crashing back to that day. Those two days. The days that brought so much pain i broke down. I don't know the boy, but I know how he feels, and while I listened, I knew I needed to let this kid know he wasn't alone like how I thought I was. But with this memory I also felt happiness. I listened to the lyrics again for the millionth time and thought "well look how I changed for the better!" The song, although not musically great, was moving. Remebering how I reversed the tragedy was encouraging. I had to pick myself up off the floor and glut the pieces together again. The rest of the night was amazing as I spent it with people that I knew were feeling remotely like I was. Needless to say, Switchfoot had one of the greatest performances I've ever seen.
Before the show, I was also given the opportunity to help the community with 106.5 collecting toys for the Kids of the Carolinas. There wasn't much outcome, like the Turkey Ball can drive. I was kind of disappointed that not many people brought stuff, but I did get to meet Kim from the promotions department (who ironically also went to my high school a few years ago) and work with Sheila and Jack Daniels again.
