Someone above said the "festival will choose you" and that's what I'm hanging on too.
Since 1997 I've only missed a maximum of 3 in a row and between 2007-2017 I went for a glorious unbeaten run of 10 in a row at Worthy Farm. In 2019, I chose not to go because I needed the money and got offered a well paying DJ gig that same weekend. When tickets for 2020 came out, my wife was 4 months pregnant, and we knew by the time the fest came round we'd have a 5 month old child to consider. So again we dropped out. Then covid happened and suddenly what was supposed to only be one year out (2019), became five years away from our second home.
So when last October came round the f5 finger got a workout again. But we missed out on tickets by seconds. Payment details in > site crashed > sold out. Not to be. Didn't even bother with resales as we spent the money on something else.
So when October comes I hope the festival gods realise that 3 fests and 6 years away is too long. And we'll see you all, supping over priced beer this time next year.