We create Boom together! It sure was a more difficult edition. The festival is getting bigger and more mainstream. The times are getting darker and the world changes all the time. That’s why we should spread our love to the ones that need it. Talk to each other so we can grow. Like this, we make the world a better place. I met the most amazing people. This is my boom Experience:
You get what you give
You get what you give:
Before I came, I knew it was going to be a special one. After this period of 4 years where many bad things happened, the festival had to find a way to survive. Arriving at the festival, we had to get in line from 10:00 p.m. Thursday to park the campervan at 10:00 Friday morning. We got an overcrowded spot and everyone was very tired. Now I believe this is a good way to enter the festival. It takes away all your energy, and you have to start over. Except what happens to you, and embrace the energy of the festival.
Saturday evening after setting up camp and meeting the new friends in and around our camp we followed ore pink flag from the Funky Beach all the way to the Dance Temple. The opening ceremony was very emotional and I could feel every possible emotion. I worried that this Boom won’t be the same. I was afraid there would be a lot of unhappy people and too many phones. I thought the Boom spirit might be lost. Slowly I started to realize that we were all having fun and I let go of my fears to dance a bit harder.
After midnight I decided to leave my friends and go on my own to the Alchemy. When I arrived, Bayawaka was playing; to my surprise, it was very slow music. So again I had to overcome my expectations and undergo reality. I’m slowly getting into the rhythm when I am eye to eye with a very beautiful young girl. We naturally start hugging and holding each other without saying a word. After about 10 minutes intense sharing of energy, she suddenly drops to the ground while we are in the middle of the dancefloor. I am again very surprised and don’t know what to do. The people around started asking me what happened and if I know her. Some try to give her water but I know this is not what she needs. She was clearly having a profound spiritual moment. Lucky there were these beautiful people that helped me to keep her safe. We brought her to kosmicare where we got her a safe place to come back to earth in peace. When I was sure she was safe I decided to go back to the dancefloor. I didn’t get her name and I knew nothing about her situation. It was a very intense moment for me but I accepted this as another mystery of the world. I danced till around 5:00 when I finally decided to go to my camper car and sleep.
Monday morning my good friend woke me up around noon. I was in a deep sleep and he was worried it was way too hot in my car. Still a bit sleepy I got myself ready and we went straight back to the Alchemy to see Emok. I’ve put my mind to it and got right back into the groove. When Anii started playing Róisín Murphy I was already in a trance state of mind. The music was taking over all control of my body. The heat was no longer there and got replaced by a warm loving feeling. I forgot my legs were tired and I felt the power of the music.
We reached a new grounding break and you can say a lot about the timing but after a hot day the sound system needs a break and so did i. So instead of going against it I embraced it. First, I found some amazing food, and then I found a nice spot to take a nap. I put my alarm to 30 minutes as I didn’t want to go into a deep sleep. When my nap was over I would have loved a shower to feel like new. But at Boom, this isn’t convenient so we expected the dirt and moved on.
Going into the night I realized the next days were going to be amazing. So I better took it easy. I walked around a bit lost in this big place full of mystical creatures. Somehow I was always finding my friends in this edition. Before I came I had decided I wasn’t going to look for them anymore. In 2018 I searched too much. I know now it’s better to go where I want to be and manifest myzelf. Then everything I need will come to me. As I never took any pictures and I didn’t look at the time very often I had to guess sometimes what time it was. Then it was already night and the sun wasn’t coming up yet so I knew we were about halfway.
Tuesday morning I wake up like always with the first heat. This must be around 9:00, I eat my breakfast which consists of canned fish, meat, and olives together with some crackers. Here at the festival I only have a couple of friends I know well. But the new group we have is really like a family by this time. It’s my Boom family, so before I’m even hungry I’m already eating the food they prepared for us. After we start making a workshop with feathers. Everyone makes something like earrings or bracelets and I’m putting some feathers on my hat. It’s now already 15:00 and I’m still in the camp. So I decide to have some acid and hit the road. After a quick swim, we go dancing. This time I felt that the break really wasn’t necessary and my friends also wanted to go to the funky beach. Once there we danced to the setting sun. And before you know I have the most beautiful moment of this boom. I met the most amazing woman. We start talking and discover we have so much in common. We are always dancing until all our friends have disappeared. Ore’s mission is to spread love all around the world. So we dance and laugh until the sun disappeared. Now I realize she is here with her friends that she hasn’t seen for a long time so we decide to go ore own way. We need to have faith that we will meet again.
I go back to the Alchemy knowing I will probably be there till the next break. so I know I will be dancing all night and all day. This doesn’t scare me because I did it many times before. And the Boom vibes will give me the energy I need. On the dancefloor, I can see that one of my friends is a bit sad. I worry so much about it that eventually, I find myself crying in the morning. This is something I try to embrace because I know I don’t cry enough. I learned from a very young age to be a tough guy. So this time I let my tears flow as much as possible. I get myself together and hit the dancefloor again. Here my older and wise friend tells me I worry too much about others. I start thinking about it and realize this is a big thing for me. I always worry so much about others that it takes me down. So if I just do my thing I will make a lot more people happy. But when I feel too much for others I will not be enjoying anymore and others will start to worry about me. So I start to dance full on and just be me. Seb G is now playing and we reached noon. So now I need to take my bike and start my mission. I have to drive back to the camp to get the mushrooms I grew before I came to Boom. I want to give them all away while James Monro is playing. So I hurry and drive up the hill as fast as I can. I freshen up a bit and take some food into my system, then collect the mushrooms and some nice rum. An hour later I arrive back on the dancefloor. Here I soon meet the people I wanted to see so everything is going to plan. Now I start giving the magic to everyone that wants it in small amounts. My message is to share this magic and let it grow stronger.
And what do you know, suddenly I am talking to my new best friend. Not only do we understand each other on some higher level but she is also like a personal air conditioning system, because she keeps on waving her big black folding fan. We take on the magic together and we dance the night away. Then around 3:00, I start to feel that I really need a break so I go to the camp to get a good power nap.
It’s the last day, so as soon as I woke up I went back to the dancefloor. This time I’m not with any friends I just want to dance in the middle of the dancefloor in the front. Here I find myself in a magic circle. Some of the most magical people have come together in this circle and we dance while we give each other energy. You get what you give, so the more I dance the more I feel good. The more we share this the stronger we get. This whole festival I was giving it all away and now I have so much…
The job of feet is walking, but their hobby is dancing
Unknown dancer
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