Tim McGraw wrote an awesome song a couple years ago called “Humble and Kind”. It’s basically a rule book for life. It goes over the basics about how to treat others, the “shoulds and shouldn’ts” you need to know when navigating most adult situations but really a lot of the things are lessons you might have learned in Kindergarten. 

    Things like, “Call your momma every chance you get. Don’t steal, don’t cheat and don’t lie.” And at the end of the day, be humble and kind.     

    I went to a Zac Brown Band Concert the other night and it was my third year in a row attending the show. The one thing I noticed this year, more than others was the lack of graciousness from a lot of the youth at the concert. I have always found concerts to be very fun occasions where I meet people to dance and bond with and occasionally, I’ll meet someone like this woman Paula from last night whose daughter was just as sweet as could be and when I noticed her trying to get a good picture of her sitting on Paula’s husband’s shoulders, I snapped one with my camera, tossed it through a filter and then offered to email it to her. We kinda bonded after that and danced together the rest of the evening and she sent me a really sweet email this am saying how nice it was to hang out last night. 

    But I noticed that there was a certain group of girls all around the same age especially who all dressed the same, and had no regard for who they barged past. If they stepped on someone’s things, they didn’t have a care in the world and my sister, Candice had her foot stomped on twice!! It just seemed like the old fashioned concert etiquette I was raised with had gone out the door and was replaced with a sense of entitlement and young, hipster, snobbery. It’s really too bad & kinda ruins things for everyone. 

    Anytime anyone asks me what the best concert I’ve ever been to is, it’s an easy answer for me… Fleetwood Mac. They were amazing when I saw them out in San Diego closed to 10 years ago now. So it’s no surprise that lead singer Stevie Nicks authored one of my favorite quotes of all time. She said once in an interview, “Your graciousness is what carries you. It isn’t how old you are, how young you are, how beautiful you are, or how short your skirt is. What it is is what comes out of your heart. If you are gracious, you have won the game.” 

   These girls last night could really stand to learn this lesson as it will not only carry them far in their future concert going experiences, but in life in general too. Being gracious, humble and kind are three of the greatest attributes I think a person can have, & if you are lucky enough to possess all three, you have TRULY WON THE GAME. And it is a MIGHTY GOOD THING. 

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