The Reality of Festival Season
- Marissa Martinez
- Nov 3, 2019
- 4 min read
Updated: Jan 23, 2020
Do we actually ever just simply live in the moment, and take everything in? I know it's hard, you're watching the most incredible artist perform before you and all you want to do is videotape it... post on all your social media platforms.
we are forgetting how to let go and be free within a moment.
Trust me, I am guilty. Probably more guilty than most people. I want the best pictures wherever I go, making my friends taking hundreds and hundreds of photos of me. It's an understatement to say I understand how hard it is to be disconnected with your phone when all you want to do is show the world where you are and what you are doing.
I went to two music festivals this month: ACL and Mala Luna, where I had two completely different experiences and different memories. They both were amazing, but in Mala Luna I felt free as I simply just lived. I danced and jumped and screamed and laughed.. not to be captured on camera or in hopes of catching people's attention, but it was just me enjoying my time at Mala Luna.
Austin City Limits
Outfit Details:
Austin City Limits was strategically planned, I mean my Instagram caption was planned before I even got there. The location of where I wanted my next Instagram picture to be was planned. I knew everything.
There were things that happened, that I wasn't expecting on like
1. The cold ass weather, my body was cold and that white slip dress was not doing much to warm me up
2. Megan Thee Stallion cancelled her set, I was so excited to see her. We got there extra early to see her as the next artist we wanted to see didn't perform until 6 hours later...
3. My bestie girl and I felt extremely sick after eating ACL food, that food sucks and is overpriced or maybe we just have sensitive stomachs. Either way, I felt horrible.
My pictures came out great though, I saw James Blake and took so many cute videos. I had an amazing time, but my whole time at ACL was dedicated to getting the greatest videos of me dancing and aesthetic pictures of me that would fit in my Instagram theme.
I was living for the camera. I was living for everyone but myself.
Mala Luna
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Mala Luna was the polar opposite of ACL. I barely had any pictures taken of me this day, missed 2 of my favorite acts, no videos were taken. Now all of this was not by choice, this all happened because my phone died as soon as I got to Mala Luna. Well missing 2 iconic artists was not because my phone died...but that's another story.
I was forced to experience the moment with my two eyes rather than through a camera lens.
I immediately got into a slightly irritated mood when my phone died as I no longer had an outlet to showcase what was happening in my life.
My beautiful friend, Charlize, who just had gotten her phone stolen looked at me and said just live in the moment, we are so controlled by our phones, just live. I wanted to scoff and argue with her, become stubborn and put up a fight, but I knew deep down she was right.
In that day I managed to grab Miguel's hand twice, danced and sang with Char all night longggggg. I reflected on everything that has happened to me this year and honestly I felt like I was flying the whole time when Miguel was preforming.
I was free.
Sabrina Claudio
Outfit Details:
🦋 Victoria Secret Black Slip Dress - Small ($14.95) *San Marcos Outlet*
🦋Oversized Forever 21 Geometric Cardigan - Large ($$) *Got this 5 Years ago*
🦋Pitaya Snake Skin Booties - S8 ($30) *can't find online, but dupes everywhere*
Yes, Sabrina Claudio was a concert and not a music festival, BUT this was after the revelation I made in Mala Luna, plus I looked to beautiful to not include these photos in the blog post.
I am not saying, don't take photos or videos when you're at a music festival or a concert. I am telling you that don't videotape every performance and stop forcing your friends to take thousands pictures of you when the reality is that most of those photos will be deleted and those videos will be forgotten.
I promise that I am still going to take a video or cute photos for the gram (...like obviously), but I am no longer going to make that my priority as the moment is what matters most. And I am not one to tell people what to do, but if you wish to enjoy a moment and I mean truly enjoy it... put the fucking phone down (:
ukiyo
(n) living in the moment
detached from the bothers
of life
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