My Answers Mattered

I could write 100 more essays about this past week. Today, I have time for one.

What was this beautiful week? I’ve never experienced it before. I was at Tomorrowland Festival with friends in the French Alps. We didn’t ski, we didn’t snowboard, we danced and talked all day and night long.

I don’t know why I went. My friend offered so I said yes. I thought I’d get my jig on, learn to ski and dance a bit. Never in my life would I have imagined to feel so much love so deeply, so quickly with strangers and people I already knew.

I don’t have the right words to tell you about it. It was too much, so intense. But I’ll try.

3 of us arrived first. I didn’t know one and didn’t know the other well. We got to the house and started talking. We couldn’t stop. We asked questions and asked more questions. At some point, we made the couch into a fort. We sat in there, drinking Kava tea and talking until the last 2 arrived.

They got in the couch fort with us. The 5 of us sat till so late, talking, asking questions. Talking and asking questions.

Later, we went to dance. And for the next 4 days, we did the same thing over and over again. We talked and asked questions, sat in the couch fort and then went out dancing. We came back every night and kept talking.

Some mornings, we went into the mountains. They had stages 8,000 feet up. I was cold but we danced. My fingers froze and we still danced. We danced, then sat in the fort and talked and asked questions. I went to sleep at 6 or 7 am after dancing and talking again.

I don’t know how to say this well. I don’t know how to tell you this so that you understand, but I’ve never felt more accepted in my life. I thought I came for Tomorrowland, to dance and learn to ski. It wasn’t that. As we sat together, talking and asking questions, everyone listened to my answers. My presence was accepted with the love only a couch fort could have inspired.

It was a beautiful week and we danced and talked all day and night long. I’m scrolling and looking through my photos now. In half of them, my mouth is open in a D shaped smile. I was overwhelmed with love. Because my answers mattered.