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anthony_s1

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#6292073 [09.14.2013] The Dream That Stops and The Dream That Continues

Posted by anthony_s1 on 21 October 2013 - 09:55 AM

This is my first fanaccount since I made this account >.<. Please forgive me if my story is boring or there are mistakes. I just want to share my memorable experience, especially for those who had the same experience. Enjoy reading! :D

 

*WARNING :  The content here doesn’t describe the concert, it describes the experience of the whole process. Those    who aren’t interested don’t read, because it’s long and takes time to read  :)

 

 

 

A very big stage, around it was an ocean of people getting ready for what was about to come. Among those people, I was standing with my friends a bit far from the stage. I thought that day would become the greatest and the most memorable day of the year. That day was the day I had waited for three years. Three years since they first started their solo tour. Finally in September 2013, they held a concert in my beloved country, Indonesia.

 

About a month before their concert, a promoter company announced the Girls’ Generation World Tour ‘Girls & Peace’ In Jakarta. Only 30 days, yet it felt like time had stopped before the memorable day actually came. Every day since the announcement I felt very excited. Some of my friends thought I was crazy when I said I was willing to pay even twice the amount of the most expensive ticket only to get the best seat. In my country, 2.5 million rupiah (around 230 USD) is a large amount of money for a high school student. That’s why I had been saving money while waiting for them to came. The most expensive seat, the Premium Red, doesn’t even reach 100 seats, and some of them were already reserved for the VIPs. Imagine how hard to get one of those without any connection! That’s why I was so desperate to get one of those.

 

I was really happy when one friend of mine told me that his cousin knew a person who can book Premium Red tickets. I feel relieved after I had given him the money for the ticket. Guess what? Bad news came right after the online ticket selling had opened. It turned out that the person who claimed himself to have a connection to the promoter company didn’t really book it. He tried to buy it online like any other. As a result, he didn’t get the tickets. As an immediate response, my friends and I agreed to ask the person to buy the second best ticket, which is the Red seats.

 

Feeling disappointed, I finally calmed myself the next day and just be optimistic. I didn’t think about the tickets anymore for I was sure that I would definitely get the Red seat. A week before the concert, another bad news came. My friend told me that the day before, the person whom we trusted to buy our ticket only got one of the Red seats when there are six of us who wanted to have the ticket.  But right after, my friend calmed me and said that he had found a secondhand seller that sold Premium Red tickets. In a blink of an eye, I became happier than ever since the first day of the tickets sale. My friends and I thought that it was a definite ‘comeback’ from our failure to get the Premium Reds before. I trusted the reseller fully too because there were many testimonials from other buyers on their twitter page. They also said that they obtained the tickets through their connection to the promoter company. I trusted them, and I was very excited to know that they had reserved the very front seat for us. Until the day of the concert.

 

When September 14 came, we decided to go to the concert place around 1 or 2 p.m. for we were sure that we would get the Prem-Reds. Around 9 a.m., my friend got a call from the reseller. They said that the person from the promoter company who was in charge of giving them the Premium Red and Red tickets couldn’t be contacted. Therefore, they only received the tickets beside the Prem-Red  and Red and all of the Prem-Red and Red buyer’s ticket will be changed to Pink(Standing) or Yellow(seated, but a bit far from the stage). Of course they gave our money back, but at least they should told us the day before. If we had known about this, we would be sure to skip the seminar that day and went to the concert place earlier. We couldn’t get out until the seminar was over.

 

The seminar ended at 12.30. We quickly rushed to the concert stage and arrived there around 13.30. When we arrived there, an ocean of people had gathered there already, waiting for the open gate. To make it worse, the reseller was hard to contact so we didn’t know where to receive our ticket. We got the standing ticket and got in to the stage area around 15.30. I was in a really bad mood because half of the standing area was already packed with people. I look up, above us, in front of the stage, was around six to eight empty seats  on the very front of the Prem-Red area. When we saw those seats, we thought that would be our seats and it seemed that we might be right. Those seats remained empty for the whole concert.

 

Even though the concert I had been waiting for eternity had finally came, I couldn’t 100% enjoy it and couldn’t become one with the pink ocean fully. Sometimes I could jump and swing the fan light, but sometimes I lost my concentration and couldn’t fully enjoy the show. With a bit of luck, I finally managed to get over with it and right after, they sang my favorite song, “Forever”. I was very moved I almost cried when the encore had just started with their ITNW acapella. Thinking how foolish I was the past 2 hours thinking nothing but crap, I think I was quite lucky to have the best 15 minutes of this year at the late concert.

 

After the concert had ended, I was filled with regret. Regret overtook me, and for 2 days, I was very depressed and almost no sincere smile were made by my lips. Majority of the smiles I made was just formality in order to look normal in front of my friends. I didn’t want them to know that I didn’t fully enjoy the concert. After an experience like that, I think one would be unmotivated to tell other people. More bad news is, the next day after the concert I found out that 2 of my friends, one was a sone(friend A) and one wasn’t a sone(friend B ), got the Premium Red tickets because the father of friend B is the owner of the TV station that became the official media partner of the concert. I feel the pressure got stronger, and all sorts of regret made my depression became worse.

 

Somehow, after the 3rd day of the concert I started to get over my regret because I knew that being depressed wasn’t good for my productivity. Even though I learnt to get over it, by now, a month after the concert, some things still triggers me to look back and feel a little pressure about the past concert. Turns out that deep regret could really affect us greatly.

 

Nevertheless, I have already got over most of it and I made a promise with myself to value my great experience. September 14 wasn’t the best day of this year, but it was the most memorable day I will never forget. What about everyone? Does anyone ever have a similar experience? Share yours!! :thumbsup:

 

 

I dared myself to share this experience even though I know some people may dislike my story. Haters gonna hate, I don’t mind being hated because I know there will be those who will support me. But I’m still very sorry for anyone who dislike this story. :cry:

 

I still hope everyone would learn from my experience and would become better decision maker than I was, and I encourage anyone to share not just every of your beautiful experience. There will be good time and there will be sad time. But always,

Keep Fighting and Never Give Up!!  Thank You :D


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