Making a Festival Out of Life

Nobody needs to overlook out on an expertise of a lifetime.

So all your mates are going to Lucidity…once more. Or possibly you simply see all these influencers flooding your Insta feed with Burning Man pics each summer time. Nicely, not all of us can go to each pageant our coronary heart is about on. Whether or not or not it’s monetary causes, household obligations, or numerous different obstacles, there’s nonetheless a strategy to fulfill that urge to occasion, develop, specific, and uncover. 

I’ve NEVER been to Burning Man. And for years I REALLY wished to. Not for an absence of funds or free time, however my greatest impediment was at all times really acquiring a ticket. So as an alternative of accepting utter defeat, I merely discovered different occasions to attend. Smaller and shorter festivals closer to home have been much more attainable for me and have had a profound impact on my life.

You don’t have to go to those enormous festivals with dear entry prices to have an epic pageant expertise. I typically marvel if individuals assume attending the mega fests earns you some form of bragging rights or cool factors. All of the festivals are nice in their very own manner! In actuality all that actually issues is having a very good time with your mates and listening to killer music. “Life is about get pleasure from” – phrases of knowledge from my Nepalese associates’ father. 

Belief me after I say you’ll have simply nearly as good or a greater total expertise going to the ‘smaller’ fests. And so they’re not even all that small!

Second to attending a pageant, there are some issues you are able to do throughout your common life schedule that may fill in these gaps and fight some FOMO.

Throwing a themed costume occasion is an excellent strategy to get these dressing-up wants dealt with. You’d be surprised how even most of your normie (non-fest attending) friends enjoy an excuse to dress up in one thing else than their day by day apparel.

You’ll be able to host them at your private home, a mother and father again yard, at a campground, and even at a renegade location out within the woods if you realize of 1. Recruit certainly one of your mates with an incredible style in music to be the “DJ” for the occasion. Dim the lights, throw up some lasers and Christmas lights and Bob’s your uncle. Mini-fest on the crib.

Some woman associates of mine additionally wish to throw an annual women tenting journey and lingerie occasion (individually). These yearly occasions give off festival-like atmospheres together with costumes, music, dancing and bathing within the moonlight. Planning one thing like this with your mates offers you one thing enjoyable and frivolous to stay up for aside from dear or time-consuming pageant attendance.

What if there’s a pageant you may’t go to however you actually wished to? Or all of your buddies are going to at least one with out you?

Nicely, you may dwell stream units from many festivals at house. You’ll find pageant dwell streams on Hulu, YouTube, Twitch and even the artists Instagram and Fb pages. Now this might provide you with worse FOMO if achieved incorrectly. Take care and do that as an alternative: invite a good friend or a couple of over, put in your fishnets and rose coloured glasses, sip a cocktail by live-stream fireplace and benefit from the present!

One of the biggest takeaways from festivals and transformational occasions alike is that you could carry them house with you. Life could be a pageant day by day. Whether or not the venue is Dwell Oak Campground, a studio condominium within the metropolis, a associates cabin within the mountains, or a neighborhood bar takeover, you may at all times carry the occasion house.

Don’t let FOMO get you down, it’s all about the intent to have fun, irrespective of life’s circumstances. Celebration on Wayne!