No idols, no fans of anyone. (A statement of denial?)
The reason: we’d like to let ourselves open widely to absorb every single experience without being over precedence. More over, we just want to be ourselves, not anybody else.
That’s roughly the ideas, definitely with no ignorance of the fact that we be shaped by the influence of the others, specifically ‘the great people’ we ever know, and with all respect and fully appreciation for the existence of the others and their works ever done.
It’s been working well for quite a while. It’s even getting easier to be done, as we are being mature in walking the path and the role we confidently choose to play in this life.
But not until couple days ago, when we heard rumour that Slank is going to hold mini concert here in near future.
It’s not only about the gig we’d like to be there. There is, somehow, a kind of emotional engagement that we have to admit. Something awake inside, drive us more than usual. Perhaps, it is about memory of regular companion in the past journey. It may be about early influences of the vision how arts, music in this case, can work sincerely portraying the society and play its own role in building a better world.
Even we are ready if we may have to miss their performance for any reason, as we usually don’t take this kind of thing as a big deal, honestly we may regret it. There is a sort of demand to re-nourish the spirit inside, by being closer, to experience the latest works they achieved.
Is it the time that the oath of ‘No Idol, No fans of anyone’ has been proven invalid?
Urmm, we are not really sure. Still, we are likely ‘arrogantly’ to say, there is respect for positive influences we received from them, but not for being fans, not as our idol.