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Crucial Life Lessons From Electric Forest
It’s a little less than a month removed from my first trip to the Electric Forest music festival, and I, like most festival goers, can see a stark difference how human interaction feels inside such an event as compared to the coldness of ‘reality’.
Some may call it naive to compare the mundane day to day to the undeniable magic many feel at a festival. While I admit that it would be unwise to try and maintain the level and intensity of excitement one experiences during a festival, there is a marked, palpable and incredible difference with how humans treat each other for a brief few days.
There are others that will rush to discredit any experience herein as little more than the wandering interactions of a bunch of carefree kids in a field doing copious amounts of drugs. While I can understand your hesitation with mind altering substances influencing our perceptions or holds on reality, I can tell you that most of the below observations come at times when most all parties are oddly sober. (I don’t agree that drugs necessarily discredit an experience, but in this case, I assure you that’s not really relevant.)
Here are three things we would all be wise to bring back from the Forest.
