Tonight was amazing. A night out with friends. A
concert that was pretty awesome.
It was all a long time coming. Months before, I was asked to look into a
concert, not knowing that I would be planning a group outing. However, those
are minor details in the grand scheme of things.
I decided a while ago that as part of my socializing, I
would make extra time for good friends and move away from those friendships
that do not serve any real purpose.
In reality, I have a hard time allowing people into my
circle because I have eclectic taste and the type of people that I tend to
encounter seem to be those who hold extreme viewpoints about everything.
But I digress. Tonight was about going to see a concert with
wonderful friends in tow. We saw Enrique Iglesias’s Sex and Love tour with
Pitbull.
These two are excellent entertainers. We all had a great
time. We danced. I sang (at the top of my lungs, may I add). We took pictures. Above
all, we stayed present in the moment.
If you’d allow the tangent. Lately, I feel that culturally,
we are not living in the moment. We’re constantly looking for the next high;
looking for the next big thing. We come, we take pictures or video. And then we
move on. Ultimately, it’s not about taking a hundred thousand pictures at an
event and calling it a night. We lose sight of it all. We’re not present in our
daily lives. So the next time you reach to your phone to take yet another picture,
think, soak it all in, and if you’re still inspired to take that picture. Do it.
But stay grounded in that moment, not what’s behind that lens.
