BY MYSELF, FOR MYSELF: Week 3 Wrap Up⠀

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A few years ago, I set a personal goal to Do Stuff - specifically, to go to at least 5 events that year. I felt like I was treading water in my life and I wanted to have experiences to prove that wasn't the case. So I started going to concerts by myself, and I've never looked back. Solo trips push me out of my comfort zone, but I'm never sorry to have taken them. I challenge you to do something by yourself, for yourself next week!

This week, I saw Grace Potter. In another life, when she was part of Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, the band toured through my college town, and I always regretted not going. Then the band broke up, and I thought I would never get the chance. Grace spoke during the encore about how there had been a time when she believed she had left music for good, and to an outsider looking in, it seems impossible that someone so talented and so clearly right where she belongs could ever walk away. It made me reflect on the ways we talk to ourselves versus the way we talk to other people. We tell ourselves that we've failed, that no one cares what we have to say, that we should pack it in. Those words, said by anyone else, would sound like a lie. But when it comes from our own head, we believe it. Just something I've been thinking about this week.
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Tell me, how was your week? Have you done anything for yourself? What happened that's worth celebrating?⠀
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