End of the Affair
This last week, several thousand people experienced the end of an intimate affair, publicly, on a football field.
The final performance of something worked on together with friends over the course of an entire year.
The show, every little intricate part of it repeated thousands of times, stops. The object of your complete attention 24 hours a day, waking and sleeping, will never be performed again with that group of people.
One group, the winner of the competition, gets as its reward, a final encore performance. Then everyone wakes up the next day and does something else.
The feeling is that of a bittersweet breakup. The end of an affair. Would you do it again knowing the end result? Absolutely you would.