Michael Ellick

Eventually, you know, there's homework at home, but my dad basically feels bad because he thinks I'm moving too fast.

doesn't insist that I do anything.

I think under different circumstances, he would have.

So eventually, I'm allowed to go back.

And I think that my friends were going back

But that first day back, part of the craziness is that I'm walking down a high school hallway and I haven't thought of this place.

And like, oh yeah, during music time, we don't actually go to the music room.

My friends and I sit in this little office and we play games on this computer, right?

Like I'd forgotten that.

I'd forgotten that we had these little, you know, there's all this nuance.

There's all this...

remembering.

But again, as I said, like, you know, I just remember feeling really free and like, like, wow, I'm going to waltz through everything in life.

Like, and what's odd to me now is that I don't think until later that I have the thought, am I here permanently or not?

Right?

Like,

it feels like it should have happened sooner that I'm like, am I here forever?

Or am I going to go back and forth?

Because initially when it happened, I was like, wow, I just meditated my way to 1990.

And