At my first concert, the night started with me standing in Buckhead Theatre, feeling internally numb and isolated due to the typical, seemingly never-ending, complications in my life. As a sea of strangers...

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As technology advances, the new generation is becoming more and more desensitized to what we see. When I was a kid, YouTube was just starting out, and it was very simple for my parents to tell me not to...