My sister and I have been trying to do more things together. We are six years apart so growing up we never did much. Eventually, I moved away and my idea of our relationship was of our mere memories together. A major reason I moved back home was because I didn’t really know who my family was. I didn’t want to go through life without a true understanding of my roots.
After I came back I tried to become more a part of each family member’s life. My sister’s has been the hardest to get more connected to, though. We never really had a relationship in the first place so it’s like we were starting from scratch. One area that we seem to connect in is music. I’ll walk past her room and hear a lot of the same music I listen to.
Seeing as my sister is a freshman in high school and is starting to spread her wings I thought I’d start taking her out to places with me. For her birthday I bought her tickets to a Cage the Elephant show at the Rave. She was pumped to go to her first concert.
On the way down to Milwaukee we had time to just talk about whatever. It was really nice. We got to the Rave and I could tell she was a little nervous but I relaxed her and reassured her it would be fun. Once we got in past security everything was fine. The opener was a little weak but the second band, The Joy Formidable, were pretty good. Then when Cage came on it was the exact show I wanted my sister to experience.
Cage the Elephants was pouring of energy from the very beginning and carried that all the way to the encore. Their lead singer moves about the stage violently the whole time and stage dove almost every other song. At the end, he surfed along the crowd over the large balcony and got lifted up to the top, which was about 15 to 20 feet up. After talking a bit, he climbed back over the railing and belly flopped back into the crowd. It was insane.
Overall, I’m happy my sister and I had that time to spend together and for her to see her first concert.
I understand where you are coming from. My sister and I are about four years apart and now I am marry so we live apart. Also I realized many things that you did about your sister my sister was a freshman in high school too. Glad to hear that you were able to make more memorable memories with your sister.
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