An unhealthy obsession?

[O'Doyle Rules]

10th visit to the farm this year and, if anything, it is becoming more and more important to me for my mental health.

Just wondering if anyone else feels the same? And I am not the only one who loves that place a bit too much 😄 

 

[Cooter]

I've been going since 1989, missed one last year due to some mess in my life. Obsessed? Yes I was up until the one I missed. Some things in life just change who you are and how you feel which was a shock to me.

Having said that I can't wait til ticket day!!

[moogster]

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[paulshane]

yeah, this was my 21st Glastonbury, I live in a constant state of either wanting to be at Glastonbury or actually being at Glastonbury

[Crazyfool01]

no comment 🙂 

[Lucy92]

I missed this year for the first time in a very long time. It broke me. 

[DJL]

After 6 years away (fallow year, child in hospital, COVID x2 and no ticket) I know what it is like to live without it and I can but I sure as hell don’t want to

[fred quimby]

Been going since 1982, missed 1 due to wedding. No intention of missing one till life events get in the way, and want my ashes spread there

[mufcok]

Completely get this.

I started going in 2011 and have been every year since, this year being the closest I came to not getting tickets.

I found myself really exhausted at times and struggling with the intense heat this time but then something would very quickly happen; be it a set or just seeing something beautiful unique, and the emotion came over me.

I'm sure a time will come where I can't go for one reason or another, hopefully it isn't anytime soon. I'm finding it very important to be there mentally but we really shouldn't out too much reliance on it, given tickets continually getting more difficult.

[foolsgold1981]

42 minutes ago, O'Doyle Rules said:

10th visit to the farm this year and, if anything, it is becoming more and more important to me for my mental health.

Just wondering if anyone else feels the same? And I am not the only one who loves that place a bit too much 😄 

 

I'd upvote this to pieces if I hadn't wasted all mine on that damn Lana argument 😁

Absolutely. I've been going since 2007 and I have absolutely found it the perfect solution to so many problems in my life and things that have happened. That Blur set in 2009 genuinely changed my life around after a horrible period and I felt that I exorcised so many demons from COVID at McCartney's set last year. Even watching Guns N' Roses this year, Sweet Child O'Mine has a particularly important place in my life for very personal reasons and I cried like a child when they played it in my favourite place in the world. I'm actually tearing up now.

I know one day I won't get tickets or be too old/other life commitments and I've been enough times that when that happens, I'll look back with great fondness on all my experiences over the years. But I know once it's gone there will be a certain hole in my life.

To say something really corny, I always think of an altered version of that Elbow lyric when I think of Glastonbury. "Five days like this a year will see me right". And over the last sixteen years, it really has ❤️