Bandwagon

There’s nothing like being close to your fellow humans; and there are very few ways to get closer to your fellow strangers than in a mosh pit. While you’re still on earth, you have to visit the chaos that is a music festival.

Why?

Because you have never lived until you have sweat and breathed with thousands of others who are gyrating and singing in discord to the same thing you are. Whether you love or hate being around people, it is something to experience. You cannot get closer to people without getting threatened with a lawsuit than you can at a music festival. Moshing is one of the most liberating experiences one can have: wear less clothing than you ever have before and no one bats an eye, be closer to strangers than you ever imaged, and immersing yourself in the beautiful labor of artists who seek to do nothing but play to live.

It is an experience that a person should not go without. Love it or hate it, anyone who ventures into the depths of a mob of moshing people is experiencing what it is to be apart of something utterly uncontrollable, something bigger and more alive than you can ever be. The people surrounding you in a mosh pit control you, you have to go with them or die. They jump, you jump.  It is the one of the safer uncontrollable mob situations, and people generally leave somewhat happily with their bruises.

To experience a music festival is to experience people at their most passionate. Coming out, you may have sweat off five pounds, have lost your cell phone, and your ears ring, but you have experienced something truly amazing. People in love with music open the window to a world outside of normal.

Whether you like country or death metal, there’s a music festival out there for you.

So dance like there’s no one watching. Because at a music festival, no one is.

Here’s a few suggestions : Lollapalooza, Pitchfork, Summerfest, Bonnaroo, Country Thunder