Tag: Music

Dear January.

You are always so cold, but somehow always filled with warmth and love. The start of a new year and the celebration of making it through another. Everyone thinks you’re a new chapter, but really you’re just a continuation. People count on you to be the new chapter, but it really starts with them to write that.
Adventure comes to mind when I think of you. The first January was the first adventure. It was so perfect, not a thing could or can ruin all those moments. Pure joy and happiness, nothing was questionable. My favorite of them all, the one that only really exists in my head. The last of the daydream.
The second January was a slow warming, if that warming was of a lit match. Trying to put together what was broken and not understood. Figuring out exactly what you need to get through the day, but running to an escape instead. The bottles were warm though. The feeling you had missed and lost. It was temporary and numbing, but it made anything confusing go away. A quick break to breathe. You threw love everywhere, not sure if it even belongs there and then went to the bottles with the same energy.
The third January was full, a more at peace feeling. Seeing actual waves and not the ones that mentally take you in and drown you. In a beautiful place where you don’t need to wait for any unknowns because now you are the unknown. A real reality that you could actually grasp. The understanding isn’t fully there, but you have a better idea of it than before. Something you can let go of at times without a lingering. You keep more to yourself because it’s only right. Protecting yourself, but in a healthy way. Working on recovery on problems you all created.

Dear January, please don’t let me fall. Stay cold, but give us your warmth. Please continue to let the patience of love wait on my drunk heart.

SALLY ♡ T

It All Comes Rushing Back.

Although would like to say this was part of the Drunk Thoughts series, it’s not. I actually sobered up from my drinking and just typing my feelings out at 4 AM. Here we are again, the heavy feeling. It all comes rushing back.

Just when things seem so great, it all comes rushing back. You can’t do anything about it, but to deal with it. That part I’m not so great with. How do you know you’re making progress? How do you know you’re getting through it instead of pushing it aside? Am I really putting my needs first?

I don’t doubt or second guess my decisions, but I do doubt where I should be or think I shouldn’t let shit bother me like it does. Why do I still get these nasty little reminders and why do they still hurt me just as much? Sometimes I get so far, just for a reminder to remind me that I actually am not. I actually haven’t even gone anywhere, like I’m just stuck in the cycle.

I go on with my day with a little bit of a heavy heart sometimes and I just push through, but what if one day I don’t have the strength for it? What can I do then? The last thing I want to do is let it consume my emotions and dwell. I’ve done that so many times and had that time already. You know, people carry a lot on their shoulders, they carry a lot on their backs. Not everyone is as happy as they seem. I hope my peace finds me, I really hope soon.

Be kind to others, be respectful, or just leave them alone. Leave things be and let it happen.

“But now I know you can’t change the past, way too young to know the reason why and it all comes rushing back, rushing back.”

SALLY ♡ T

Travel Back to Twenty Twelve.

Where has the time gone? It feels like the year 2012 was another lifetime. A lot of the people that were super close to me, we either fell out or don’t even talk to each other anymore. A lot has changed since then, but then again a lot has stayed the same.
I was packing and a song that I use to listen to started playing. Instantly I felt super happy as if I was listening to it back then, just singing it on top of my lungs with the windows down driving to where ever we decided that day. My best friend and I had many adventures then and that’s when I met a lot of my current best friends for the first time. That summer changed my life in many different ways, all for the better, even if it took a while to see that. Not everyone is meant to stay in your life and a lot of things are suppose to stay as just memories. Thankfully, I have these memories and they actually still teach me a lesson to this day. “Whenever I think of us, I always see a smile. I was happy for a while.”
Facebook memories also threw in some pictures from that time period and it seemed all to coincidental, so here I am. 2012 baby Sally walked, so 2020 Sally could run. Oh, the things I wish I could tell my 2012 self, but I don’t think I would change a thing about the past. I needed to experience all of it to be who I am now, to know the things I know now, and being able to feel the way I do now.
I do miss the v-necks and picnic shorts though, haha. I do miss my best friend too. They always made sure I knew that they loved me for me and that everything I started to doubt about myself was just in my head. That will always stick with me. “So long, do you know you saved me?”

It’s nice to be reminded of things you forget. It always makes me appreciate what I have now more. “Maybe the past holds me up, but the present get me through.”

SALLY ♡ T

Special Memory: The Alchemy Tour ♡

I woke up from something not so funny this morning and I was really going to let it ruin my day, but last year memory recaps saved me from that just like they did last year.
I bought my ticket to The Alchemy Tour (Feat. Huxley Anne, The Glitch Mob, NGHTMRE + Slander Presents: Gud Vibrations, And Seven Lions) and convinced two of my others friends to come with me about a week or two before. We full fucking sent it. I absolutely am in LOVE with Slander, so it was a go even if I had to go solo. I drove us 2 hours to Detroit and you know how car rides with your friend are, just unforgettable. We got to The Fillimore, found our spot on the balcony and met up with our other friends. Crazy how much music and friends can heal you and instantly make you forget whatever troubles you have for a little. The Alchemy Tour is the best show I’ve ever experienced and I really needed it at the time. When I say I was a crying headbanger, I WAS a crying headbanger! Make it a crying session, but with bass. The best part of the whole show was when Seven Lions played Island. Since we were on the balcony, it was the middle section, so between the main floor and upper seats we saw the whole production of the show from an upper view and that was really awesome. The lasers and The Atom stage went crazy, but when the Island drop came on you could just feel the headbanging and bass in the balcony. We literally had it bouncing with every WICKA WOMP WOMP WOMP WICKA WOMP WOMP. I would say that was the best performance of Island that I’ve ever experienced hands down. You can watch my little recap TikTok below!

@sally.things

I can’t get over that I was at The Alchemy Tour last year today 🥺💗 #bringmeback #fyp #edm #thealchemytour #headbanger #ravebae #gudvibrations

♬ original sound – sally.things

AHHHHHHH!!!! IT WAS SO GOOD AND I MISS IT SO MUCH. My heart just fills up when I think about it. My friends make me feel super human and that’s who I think of when that song plays ♡
Anyways, that’s my special moment for today. It filled my heart last year and got me out of a potential bad day today.

SALLY ♡ T

First EDM Set Feature

Karpow reached out to me to be featured in her GRLFEST virtual set and I’m still so honored for it! Just a huge moment for me because I love her and have attended so many of her sets. She is so sweet and kind every time we talk. Watch her kill her set in the video below and look out for me at 17:25 ! Remember her name, she’s going to make it big! ♡

SALLY ♡ T

https://youtube.com/watch?v=EXAv_9wLBBU