I'd just like to interject, this is how far I HAVE gone fairly specifically for a concert. However, I've actually gone to a concert further from home, but it was more that they happened to be playing where I was going to be on vacation. I did go to Long Beach California to see Linkin Park when I was 15.

So it was 2005, Sugar, We're Going Down was just coming out on music charts and I'd had Fall Out Boy's first album, but wasn't fanatical about them. But when I heard their new album, I fell in love. Then I found out they were going on tour with Panic! at the Disco (who were a week away from releasing their 1st album, and still quite unknown but I LOVED them), Motion City Soundtrack (another relatively unknown band I loved), The Starting Line (I'd been a huge fan a couple years earlier), and Boys Night Out (Canadian, I knew almost nothing about them, actually).
The tour wasn't scheduled to play Calgary, but it was playing Montreal, and one of my closest friends had just moved there for University. It seemed like the perfect opportunity. I mean, if you overlook the fact that I had to miss time from my second year of university and my job, and pay for flights and shit...but seriously, the perfect opportunity. I was 18. My definition of perfect opportunity was different.

But if I'm being honest, I'd do it again and it was well worth it.

I wanted to say Fight Club, but I'm not nearly hardcore enough to hang out with Marla Singer.

I wanted to say High Fidelity, but I would never actually be friends with Rob because I prefer being the one with superior music knowledge as that's kind of my role with most of my current friends.

I wanted to say The Nightmare Before Christmas, but I'm not drawn the right way.

So since I couldn't come up with a serious answer...

I decided to be a total smartass and choose an answer that I totally don't mean. Though I'd like access to that kind of money and protection.

But it's probably a smarter move to just join the mafia for that, than hang with vampires, one of whom likes to stalk teenage girls. "Ideal boyfriend"?? Creepy.

I spent a lot of money on an education I'm still not sure about. I 'kissed a few frogs' so to speak. I watched too much television and read not enough books, but I'm doing differently now. I really tried to be someone my parents would be proud of. I think they are, but sometimes I'm not sure why.

I tried to do something a little different, but sometimes ended up following the crowd. I never wanted to be a part of the sheeple, but I also tried, perhaps wrongly, to be someone else's version of normal. I crawled, danced, swam, ran and tripped here. And I definitely fell a few times.

I walked a little bit too. And drove a relatively lame car that has never really given me reason to complain. I wrote a lot of words down. I let myself get caught up in the moment. I underthought. I overthought. I broke my own heart.

And I really hope one day I'll stop asking how I got here and just be here, and that will be enough.