The way only Ayu can make you feel...

[immel]

I basically didn't listen to Ayu at all during the past 2 years, likewise I stopped frequenting AHS like I used to and it's all become one big fond memory of mine.

I was listening to music today, something I tend to do a lot, and my habit has been to skip Ayumi if she ever popped up in my playlist, but as she hit me with evolution, the live .ac3 version from CDL 04-05, she ran a long, slender knife right through my heart. I turned on the DVD and played the song again and as the drums started echoing out over the arena and Ayumi, catching me off balance, entered the stage, I could do nothing but sit in awe, slightly shaking and hugging myself, not noticing my racing heart and hyperventilation until near the end of the song. As the song ended and Flower Garden took its start I noticed my eyes were slightly wetter than usual...

It was really amazing to experience this feeling once again, true nostalgia at its finest. It felt like I experienced everything I went through during the time when I discovered Ayumi all over again, in 10 minutes. Listening to Ayumi that very first time, watching the ARENA TOUR 2005 DVD, my trip to Tokyo and seeing Ayumi live, graduating, all the people I got to know at AHS... and the list goes on.

Ironically evolution was the very first song by Ayumi I ever listened to.

I paused the DVD during her emcee to write this post, where else can I possibly turn when Ayu blew me into a million pieces all over again?

Some images from the performance:

Spoiler:

Thank you for reading .