I don't think that's why I'm going. I heard of burning man when I was 16, I thought it was an amazing idea and then never really thought of it again. As I got more wrapped up in the material world (and oddly more unhappy) I completely forgot about Burning man. somehow I wound up on experience.net and someone mentioned that they were going to burning man and it was as if flood gates had opened, I decided then and there that I would be attending this year. Oddly, 9 years later and a continent apart, I'm going with the girl that told me about burning man all those years ago - it's funny how life works out like that.

I'm going, well in some senses, for a personal spiritual experience, a chance to step away from what I've gathered around me so I can look at it and decide what's important. It's an incredible longing that's taking me to burning man, not the need to see and be seen. However, I can see others going for that reason I suppose, so I think that one inflammatory line could have been worded a bit differently, but I understand what she was trying to say.