For me...

Remember that first show when the lights were down and the rest of the band was onstage and then Jon shot up from the floor surrounded with fireworks and your jaw dropped because you couldn't believe he was actually right there? And then when Jon and Richie stopped on the catwalk right in front of you and you could have sworn you could reach out and touch them? Or when you and your best friend had your arms around each others shoulders and sobbed uncontrollably as you sang along with Blood on Blood? Or when you heard I'd Die for You live and the words finally hit you? Or when you were 2nd freaking row and the orange seats didn't register in your mind because you six feet from your idol? When Alec took the rose you and your friend tossed onstage and put it on the drum riser? When you heard Jon sing Can't Help Falling in Love and you melted? When Jon lost his mind and cussed out the security guard because so many people were passing out? When you heard new songs at a Christmas show? When you thought "nothing could ever be better than this?" When you and your friend got to your seats and realized Jon's mike was exactly between the two of you and then the band played for nearly three hours? And you thought nothing can get better than this. When the ceiling started leaking during Dry County and you thought it was a really cool special effect? When you heard songs that had given up on ever hearing live: I'll Be There for You (back when Jon still sang it), Born to Be My Baby (which you'd never heard though it was a 12 year old song), and NEVER SAY GOODBYE? And you were sure nothing could get etter than that. When you and your two best friends in the whole world took a trip and you got to see the joy on the face of someone who had not been to a Jovi show since that very first one 14 years ago? Sitting in traffic for 3 1/2 hours to go 35 miles? Hearing Blood on Blood again after too long? Trying to telepathically convince Jon to do his jungle screams when he launched into Keep the Faith? Thinking, "That's actually pretty cool" when the band played funky versions of their own songs? Wondering if they would still live up to how you remembered them before after upheaval in your own life had made it difficult for you to even listen to them anymore? Being blown away that they were even better than you remembered them being? Being satisfied that you had been right all along and seeing Bon Jovi live was one of life's greatest pleasures and knowing that nothing could get better than this. Escaping the hell of the real world and savoring every moment of a show? Driving all night long and then sleeping all day long before a couple of shows? That feeling that you felt right in your soul when Jon sang about wanting to be loved? Wondering if you'd lost your own mind because you were standing in a thunderstorm in a heat wave inviting a tornado to blow your dumb ass all the way to Kansas just so you could risk bronchitis turning into pneumonia so you could sing in the shower with 65,000 of your friends? Looking to one of the few people who could really appreciate the significance of the opening note of Dry County, grabbing each other and jumping for joy?

Missing it because it's been too long?

Yeah, I love Bon Jovi too.