I would like....

[mzsa]

for everyone to be fully "back" from burning man and for all the sadness and badness that my friends and loved ones are going through right now, to disappear.

Comments

[kavavita]

wow, you too?

Thanks for the sweet comment the other day - picturing your hammock in the sunshine was a welcome treat.

[romijordanna]

The only problem is that it doesn't just happen in a bubble for a week somewhere in the desert. It can be a really big part of the lives of the people who do it. Being shut down and insulted is getting obnoxious and hurtful, and the truth is, I haven't even really told any BM stories or how my time was. So, if you're going to be friends with people who go, I guess maybe just understand it's an important part of our lives, and important parts get talked about.

[mzsa]

I am really sorry if I or other people have been insensitive. I don't really think that was the intention. And please understand that it's not personal. The issue is this: if you, Romi, or someone else had gone on a camping trip with a small group of people and come home and wanted to tell your stories I would be enthusiastic and wanting to hear all about it, however that's not the case. The case happens to be that hundreds of people that I know or am associated with have all been gone on a trip that they have been talking about for half a year and had this amazing or horrible or interesting or whatever time, and they all want to tell me about it; it gets to be a little overwhelming and a lot exhausting. I'm sorry if that's hurtful but it's how I feel. I'm not trying to shut you out. If I go away or am quiet, I'm just trying to give you the space you need to reacclimate yourselves.

[water_of_fire]

Forgive them. They know what they're doing, but they can't help it. I actually intend to find out for myself sooner or later, so if I go native, we'll all know what happened. I'm sure it's just like any other intensely surreal experience.

Alternatively, one could make friends with people like this one guy I know, who tells great Burning Man stories without going all rapturous about it.

[futureboy]

An experience is an experience, good or bad, whether it happens at Burning Man or not. I should be able to share it with my friends regardless. I'll never be fully back because something has changed. Coming home, I needed people to share and listen about something that happened to me, but instead, I came back to a lot of cold shoulders- from burners (because this was the worst and the last for many) and non-burners alike. So here I am trapped in a silent corner waiting for someone who has a welcome ear for what I need to express. It hurts.