5/22/2005 10:07:00 PM|||Travis|||

Home again, home again... back to the quiant little town of Missoula. For those interested, I will arrive on the 9th of June and be there until the 29th. The weather has made its turn and now I am able to handle it. I heard that it is up to 70 or so. I really like to be in Montana for the change of the seasons. It makes people in a manic sort of frenzy that you don't really get here in the consistant santa barbara style of weather. I suspect that this spring mania phenomenon happens anywhere that there is actual seasons. I look forward to the long summer days of doing graceful backflips into the Clark Fork river while working on the tan and of course, socializing. The summer nights should be delightful as well.

What should the story of my life be? I was wondering this today as one of my intellectual friends was discussing the merits of convincing yourself that you are the son of a god. Or are the reincarnation of someone important.... I think he is on to something. Like Alexander the Great's mother who convinced him that he was really the son of some god (Zeus? perhaps). But imagine the power in that sort of belief, no matter how arbitrary. Imagine Alexander standing on the ancient battlefield, arrows wizzing around him perfectly lost in the belief that is is related to a god. He can draw upon a seemingly unhuman psycology... Very courageous, fearless and powerful.

So how ridiculous is some belief like this? On a certain level you can say that it completly defies logic. But it is a deliusion on purpose. You are creating a system of belief that gives you a powerful mental energy. The trick is perhaps convincing yourself of it.

On another note, I witnesed two sunrises this weekend. It appears that the english people don't like to sleep. Partying with them is a never ending sort of deal, where leaving is almost impolite so I tend to stay for ages unless I can slip away. I am growing rather fond of the international party crowd that I have came into at Santa Ynez (that is a big apartment complex in Isla Vista). It takes a certain personality to travel and tasting all the different cultures is delicious.

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