Hikaro's Personal Labyrinth

I did my personal labyrinth today. I wanted to talk about what I learned about my parallel selves on the video, but I also wanted my video to be accessible to Esperanto speakers, and I'm simply not good enough at speaking Esperanto to do an Esperanto voiceover (I actually tried, but I wasn't very good and I wanted English subtitles, and I couldn't make them work). In any case, writing's my best medium anyway.

I know my labyrinth is lopsided... that's what I get for freehanding it! I did my labyrinth in the back of Parking Lot J, which is very empty on the weekends. (WOU dies every weekend because everyone leaves town for the weekend!) I wanted sidewalk chalk, but WOU's bookstore only had regular chalk. It took more than one whole stick of that chalk to draw that labyrinth!

I did three runs, actually, of my labyrinth. It was actually kind of annoying because after the first and second runs, I realized something was wrong when I was back in my room so I had to scrap the run and do another, walking back to the parking lot where I set up my labyrinth. The first time went fine but my head was cut out of the shot for the entire video. The second run was seemingly good, but when I was editing the video I realized I forgot my scroll! (No wonder I got nothing on that run from the parallel selves!) The third and final run is the one I published the video of.

The first and third runs I got differing impressions of my parallel selves, so I've concluded that I was seeing two different parallel selves. My world-creating moment was March 30th, 2008, when I committed to going to college at WOU instead of Pacific University.

The first run, I got the impression that my parallel self (the one that went to Pacific U) was a lot more lonely than me. I didn't know anyone who was going to Pacific, but I knew several who were coming to WOU, and I hang out with them all the time here. Even though one of my best friends from elementary school went to Pacific, my parallel self wasn't really friends with her. However, my parallel self was working for the student newspaper at Pacific, something I haven't really had time for here.

The third run, I got impressions of a similar, but different parallel self. This parallel self was on the newspaper staff, yes, but this me was a dikaiosune, not a sofia, and he was organizing synchronizing labyrinths and was a runner for his labyrinth... not something sofia-me would do! I guess this means that WOU has stimulated my intellect while Pacific would have stimulated my leadership skills. I didn't get the impression that this me was lonely like the first one at all. It's good to know that I'm not the only me that is helping Ariadne!

Overall, I think it was a good run. I completed a mythopoeia mission by writing "Findthelostring.com" below my labyrinth so that anyone who happens to pass by the labyrinth might get curious and join our cause!