I got a lot of questions from people and it's within me to reply, but those other answers were too long so I wrote another. May as well put the final draft here too. It's for the Fussbook and necessarily has to be short and to the point.
Why I'm Not Going
I was super busy this year (new house etc). As I ran out of time to prepare in the ways I wanted to, I found myself wondering if I really wanted to go. I didn’t have anything new to bring. I had too much else going on at home to just take my old stuff and hang out and party. I felt around inside and decided I didn’t truly want to go.
Burning Man is a relationship. If you start questioning your place in a relationship, you must take a serious look at whether or not you belong there.
I’ve seen and experienced and learned incredible things from Burning Man and its culture. Now my life has changed enough so that some of what I go out there for, I now get all year long. And while there's a certain sameness to some of it, and some of the other most amazing elements can only be found out there, none of it quite adds up, not this year.
I’m not done with Burning Man by any means. But I need to follow my passions, and I don’t have a lot for the desert this year. I will when I next put something together and feel again like a contributor.
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Who questions this decision ~ otter Burners? Cuz to a non-Burner it not only makes perfect sense not to go, but also one wonders why anyone would ever. :D
No one really questions it. I get universal support for this decision and a lot of people who feel the same way. But I know you know you don't get the life-changing nature of the experience. I just felt a drive to explain, because I have an ego (my name is Donald, after all ... and as of this moment there are 45 likes on that little announcement).
But of course people do question it, as in they want to know why, and see if it's about them, or about the new style of Org, or the bugs, or trouble on the home front, and then maybe they want to feel less alone in their own uncertainty; because, you know, sometimes people are so rah rah about a thing you're not sure you want to admit you're not.
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