[272] before this, did you really know what live was?

It's the one-year anniversary of my first live AEW show, and it's absolutely buck wild to think that I've been to ten more since then (with two more coming up fast!). Feels kinda genuinely crazy to look back on as a whole, honestly? Sometimes it feels like my life is passing me by so quickly and that I mostly just waste my days (I watched a LOT of television today, incidentally), but actually, that's a whole lot of good times I packed into one calendar year? Tons of crazy memories spread across four different provinces, and it's not like I didn't have other things going on as well, so like

IDK, perspective rules, I guess! Exactly one year ago, I touched Orange Cassidy and then ran back to my rented highrise condo in Toronto to completely burn shit down in my silly Discord Survivor game, and things somehow managed to just get cooler from there. My mom beat some cancer! I hiked down a freeway in Saskatchewan for two straight smoke-filled hours! I got to meet Leah! I genuinely think June 25th was the single best day of my life to date! Am I 34 years old and somehow finally peaking? Let's fucking go!

( Album #272/1001: A Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm )