Anyone a little sad it's all over?

domitron · Post by **domitron** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 9:46 pm

I had such a wonderful time this year. It was my second burn, yet I had the best time this year of all time! Thinking back on it, it all seems like a dream, but now I must wake from the dream. Does anyone else feel deep sadness it's over? I guess the only bad part of a peak experience like Burningman 2005 is one feel so sad when it's over. It's like I know it couldn't last forever or else it wouldn't be so special, but I can't help feel sad it's over. The art and the music were so spectacular this year! Thank you everyone for helping make it just a wonderful experience.

HughMungus · Post by **HughMungus** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 10:15 pm

domitron wrote:Does anyone else feel deep sadness it's over? I guess the only bad part of a peak experience like Burningman 2005 is one feel so sad when it's over. It's like I know it couldn't last forever or else it wouldn't be so special, but I can't help feel sad it's over. The art and the music were so spectacular this year! Thank you everyone for helping make it just a wonderful experience.

For me, not sadness, just a lot of emotions that I finally let come to the surface today. A five-time burner friend of mine asked me how my burn was and I started crying. This was my sixth and best burn, ever. I was surrounded by friends, I was able to positively affect a lot of people's lives, I met a lot of great people, and had a lot of really positive experiences. I'm not sad that it's over, just emotional about the whole thihng. Tears of joy, I guess.

One way to help ease the sadness is to live Burning Man the rest of the year either through regionals and being involved in things and/or by taking the spirit with you out into the world. For a lot of people, it's a lot more than a week in the desert.

Iago · Post by **Iago** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 10:44 pm

I was in tears of JOY when I finally got home and was standing in my own shower and could run the water as long as I wanted to..!
It's just a fucking camping trip in the desert with a lot of nice neighbors....

HughMungus · Post by **HughMungus** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 10:51 pm

Iago wrote:I was in tears of JOY when I finally got home and was standing in my own shower and could run the water as long as I wanted to..!
It's just a fucking camping trip in the desert with a lot of nice neighbors....

As I've learned in the past 12 hours, we're supposed to all be excruciatingly nice to each other here. I'm sure you'll be getting a PM telling you what a jerk you are shortly.

Wavemage · Post by **Wavemage** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 10:56 pm

Last year I was literally crying when the sun rose on Monday morning and I had to leave burning man.

This year I couldn't wait to get home. I was ready to leave on Friday morning, but still wanted to expereince the burn and the temple burn and all that. Weird. My life has been completely revolving aroudn the burning man scene for 2 years now (this is my 3rd burn). It's been great, but I feel a little 'burnt out' (no pun intended).

Iago · Post by **Iago** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 11:06 pm

Dallas, lighten up a little, it was just some good ol snarky playa humor I just posted. Some will get it, some won't. It was not pointed at you or anyone in particular. Sorry you got offended by it. What else can I say...

Paradox Plaid · Post by **Paradox Plaid** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 11:10 pm

went to work.
it was then i realized it was actually over. why can't the default world think about anyone but themselves?! personally i enjoyed the oneness and community that was on display. sure it's alot of other things, but the atmosphere is what i miss, and i'm a virgin. it almost makes it harder to readjust knowing that such a wonderful place of thoughtful individuals exists. i personally can't wait for next year, i'm anxious...

Bambi of Finland · Post by **Bambi of Finland** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 11:16 pm

I'm not just a little sad I guess its a combination of a few things kind of like PTSD, then going from a place with no walls, to a place with walls. I hit one of those walls today and had to come home . I slept most of the day.

domitron · Post by **domitron** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 11:34 pm

For me it's just that it was so amazing this year that I guess it's a hard come down. I suppose I longed for a little more interaction this year too. My bro came with me. He was a virgin, and while I love him to pieces, he has absolutely no real appreciation for music. Music is my soul, and I felt a little ripped apart wanting to stay to listen to some of my favorite DJs and having him want to just go place to place and never stop. I think that left me with a little less than my fill of Burningman this year. It's not his fault per se, but I learned something about bringing others. You got to be careful who you bring. If they don't share the same passions, it can set you up for some real disappointments.

All in all, I had a wonderful time, but I'd have rather just spent my time with my beautiful wife and close music-loving friends like last year roaming from place to place dancing, listening to tunes, and totall absorbing the incredible art displays. I am the type that really needs a lot of time with each art display, but my brother just likes to check them off and go to the next. It's different perspectives on it I guess. Just gotta be careful who you bring to the playa. Live and learn I guess.

WebGraphics · Post by **WebGraphics** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 1:20 am

Domitron - On tuesday as I drove away... seeing the playa so empty... well it made me a little sad. We experience this sadness together, my friend.

ZaphodBurner · Post by **ZaphodBurner** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 11:32 am

domitron wrote:Does anyone else feel deep sadness it's over?

Does anybody NOT?

I sent my camp an e-mail thanking them--a dozen virgins--for being so utterly perfect in camp and on the playa, and told them to expect a little post-playa depression, or homesickness. Perfectly normal.

Almost all of them responded to the group, or privately, that they've been struggling. One was talking it over with my partner at home yesterday and he burst into tears. Another reported having to walk away from her client for a moment, a third said she got nothing done her first day back.

I have to say New Orleans and the Gulf Coast are still kicking my ass harder, but I'm feeling it too.

Fuck the real world. I wanna go home.

-c

run_w_xcors · Post by **run_w_xcors** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 3:03 pm

I was warned by alot of people that it can be depressing leaving BM and in some cases they were right, but in other cases not so much.

Though this was my first burn, I'd known about BM for about 9 years and always found excuses not to go (all of them really good BTW). This year I had no good excuses and finally came home. And that's exactly what it felt like after I realized where I was.

Upon leaving, queued up behind a long line of trucks, RVs, campers and cars on the way out, I couldn't believe how surreal it was to think I wasn't going to be at Burning Man for another year. I was sad in a way, but I was mostly elated I finally got a chance to both come home and leave it.

In the end I feel refreshed and ready to tackle the world from a new perspective.

Post by **Eric** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 6:56 pm

ZaphodBurner wrote:Fuck the real world. I wanna go home.

I've always thought of the "real world" as home, and Burning Man my week of freedom from reality. I don't want it to be "home", because it wouldn't be a special to me if it were. Not attacking anyone elses view, just sharing mine.

That said, I'm missing it like a son of a bitch this year.

*sigh*

mars · Post by **mars** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 1:19 pm

More than a little sad...that's why I'm here on e-playa. Last year I spent about two months on e-playa, just winding down and then I didn't come back here till after this burn.

What's hard for me is that the time went by so fast and that, even though I did and saw and experienced all that i possible could, it was still only a sliver of what was there. I want to go back to see and do more, but it's all gone. There's nothing to go back to. I both love that and hate that at the same time.

HughMungus · Post by **HughMungus** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 1:52 pm

Paradox Plaid wrote:it almost makes it harder to readjust knowing that such a wonderful place of thoughtful individuals exists.

I was talking to an ex-virgin this year and I said, "Burning Man is very far from reality but one thing you do get to take back with you is knowing how GOOD people can be." I try to remember that in my day-to-day life.

HughMungus · Post by **HughMungus** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 2:02 pm

mars wrote:What's hard for me is that the time went by so fast

Same here. From now on and forever, I'm arriving before the gates open. Seriously.

mars · Post by **mars** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 2:58 pm

mars wrote:
What's hard for me is that the time went by so fast

Same here. From now on and forever, I'm arriving before the gates open. Seriously.

Me too! I guess that means we have to register our theme camps next year!

stickysunset · Post by **stickysunset** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 1:56 am

either i drank too much or too little tonight...but i miss all 35,000+ of you......sniffle.....

Dr. Pyro · Post by **Dr. Pyro** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 10:24 am

I'm not so sure I miss 35000+, but I sure do miss you!

karr · Post by **karr** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 9:29 pm

DallasPlaya wrote:
mars wrote:What's hard for me is that the time went by so fast
Same here. From now on and forever, I'm arriving before the gates open. Seriously.

Me too...if I can. Otherwise, my plan is to get there on Sunday instead of Tuesday and leave the following Monday instead of Sunday.

It's been a week since I came back and am missing the playa badly. I went and opened up a bag of clothes I took out there to get a poof of dust. *Sigh*

I seem to be living on the eplaya and burning man tribes over at tribe.

skygod · Post by **skygod** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 10:58 am

I can barely stand it.
Now when I say "Hi!" to strangers that I pass on the street they look at me like I'm crazy.
Maybe I am.

mars · Post by **mars** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 11:13 am

Half of me is still there, at BRC, except then I think, wait a minute, there isn't there anymore. So half of me is somewhere that isn't there. And that's exactly how I feel.

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blyslv · Post by **blyslv** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 3:24 pm

Over?!?! Bullfeathers! Who said it's over? Keep the Burn alive in your heart. Keep creating, keep loving and make do with less.

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