What A Different Crowd

I recently went to Splendour in the Grass at Byron Bay and although there weren't many bands that I knew and liked, I have to say I discovered a lot of new bands and thoroughly enjoyed myself. One of the main reasons for this is just the crowds at splendour. At one point, I was so deep in the crowd for one of the shows and it was so packed that I got really light headed. I was scared shitless that I might have fainted and gotten trampled so I rushed out. The good thing was while rushing out, people saw that I was obviously in distress and helped me out. Something like that has never happened to me back home. If anyone ever sees anyone else in trouble, nobody bothers to help them. I just thought that was something really different about the Australian people.

The second awesome thing that happened to me was when this bunch of guys started getting rowdy and having fun. They were pushing me around a little but I didn't mind too much. I mean, you're in a festival, it's obvious that you won't have as much personal space as normal. All right, the awesome thing was that one of the guys saw that they were pushing into me a lot and told his friends to just go a little further away. When it got a lot more squished, he maintained his distance from me while ensuring that people to the side and the front wouldn't push me. I still get amazed when people act like decent human beings. You'd think that everyone should behave decently but they don't. It gave me some hope in humanity, that people were willing to help perfect strangers for no reason beyond just helping someone else out.

Kudos to you guys, if you happen to stumble upon my blog while searching for splendour stuff. I'll buy you a beer next year.