I got tickets for Vaundy (though they are for a year and a half from now)

I managed to get tickets for a Vaundy concert. However, it won't actually take place until October 2027.

A year and a half from now. Isn't that crazy?
I might have a falling out with the friend I planned to go with, break up with my partner, or if we were married, we might even get divorced.

More than that, as an older guy, I don't even know if I'll be healthy enough to still be alive.

For now, I'll do my best to stay alive for the next year and a half.

By the way, for the last Vaundy arena concert in my hometown, I had tickets, but my father passed away right before it.

And it just so happened that the concert I was looking forward to and my father's funeral fell on the same day.

“What a day!!”

My wife, who was supposed to go with me, and I were talking about how it was a shame but couldn't be helped, when we got an unexpected call from the temple.

“The chief priest has a scheduling conflict, so we need to hold the funeral in the morning.”

Fully aware of how incredibly inappropriate it was, I told my mother I wanted to go to the concert after the funeral, and once it was over, I changed from my mourning clothes into casual wear and dashed to the venue.

The concert was amazing.
From the second row of the stands, way in the back of the venue, I went wild for Vaundy, who looked like a grain of rice.
(No big screens! Seriously!)

Toward the end of the concert, I was panicking because I couldn't go pick up the silver streamers that had flown into the aisle in front of me, but a female staff member at the venue collected them with practiced ease and took them away.

A while later, she returned and handed out pieces cut to about 30 centimeters long to the audience around us, including my wife and me.

Thanks to that, I was able to unlock the incredibly rare achievement of “picking up both a parent's ashes and silver streamers on the same day.”

I doubt I'll ever have a day with such a wide range of emotions ever again.
Or rather, I hope I never do.

Let me say it one last time.

“What a day!!”