"You have to travel...to realize that you belong where you started off."

rich wrote this. it's brilliant and it belongs with where i am heading with this next entry.

during joseph campbell [iamontheheroesjourney] overdoses, i have convinced myself beyond a shadow of a___ that i need to pick up and move off to the woods. i need to do this or i'll die.

i found recently that although his hero journey was in the woods, mine is here. in my small apartment that smells like vegan food. in my gas tank that empties out way before i want it to. in the hard-core hatred i feel for people who haven't got the faintest____ about how life is supposed to be.

yes i could carry a bookbag full of words into nothingness and research the meaning of life and get it all figured out in five years, but i'm deciding i don't have to. once you come back, anyway, the smell is still there. people still won't have gotten it. and possibly everything i will have learned could be destroyed by the sheer shock of facing humanity's impossibilities again. difficulty aside, there really is no place like ____ to put your own puzzle pieces together.

2004-06-10, 1:09 a.m.
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