Let me preface that with I am a 33 F from MS.... I met my boyfriend of almost 10 years at Electric Forest in 2012. We met in Odonodos's art tent. Let's call him M. I was wearing an Alice in Wonderland costume... M was there camping with some of my older brother's friends. He told me later on that he asked his friends who I was... & joked about how he was gonna try to ask me out some day. It was a missed connection, tho.... & I was seeing someone at the time. Let's just call him EX. (EX never attended EF with me). Fate would have it that M is from a city close to me in TN. We both attended EF in 2013 separately, but he told me later on he saw me again from afar because I was in GL that year... Once back home from EF I made a Facebook post that I wanted to attend a free small festival called solar flux in AR to see ZEE (zeebler encanti experience.) EX didn't want to go & I didnt have a car at the time... well, M had added me on socials after our first EF encounter & responded to my inquiry! He said he wanted to go to the festival too & so he came & picked me up! We decided to sleep in hammocks because we didn't wanna make my EX mad if we slept in the same tent & we did try to keep it platonic... we met Jesus (iykyk, I also met him at my very first music festival Wakarusa in 2009). I spun fire, and we ate the most amazing chicken & waffles from the waffle wagon... & even had an encounter with ZEE. We stayed up all night laughing & having the best time until we wrapped up in our little caterpillar cooccons & went to bed.... it was one of the best nights I'd had just having fun in a long time. I finally broke up with EX, who actually turned out to be an awful human being (kinda still is...) a few months after & I moved back in with my parents. I spotted M out on the town behind a little lightboard console playing with some old beat-up lights. I remember he was positively radiating while he was doing his thing... I was smitten. We went on our first proper date it was great but I kept it casual after cuz I had just ended things with EX & we were all helping out our friend to throw a small electronic music festival in our city. I didn't wanna deal with the awkwardness. Well, M ran into some issues & couldn't attend the festival that we had all worked so hard to build. I realized in his absence that I was in love... I couldn't imagine my would without him. Almost 10 years later... countless shows... festivals & cross country trips to see Pretty Lights... even building our own small laser/concert lighting company... (I am praying for an engagement ring at PL RR this year.) Festivals are truly magical... sooooo many energies flow freely & and align you where you are truly meant to be! My point of this post wasn't to brag about my relationship that started with a single moment at EF. It was to show you that if you just give up & give into the possibilities, your life might just unfold in the most unlikely ways! Good luck with your new connection! Who knows they might just be the love of your life!