Michael's Message to the Fan Board

what dyu mean?

oh lol awww dont worry bout it mythicfeline!!

lol i agree to some extent, its made me want to go to Hawaii even more just to see that astounding scenery!! ;D

I felt the same when I returned from Colorado; I'd been gone for around a week and a half, but I felt as though I'd been away for 3 or 4 weeks because we traveled a lot every day, saw my old neighborhood, parks we used to visit, ect. I'd dreamed about coming back, ever since we left, imagining it would be so exciting to see the mountains and snow, again, but it wasn't as exciting as I thought I would be; My Mom said it's probably because of the circumstance that brought us back: a death in the family. My old neighborhood and schools still looked exactly the same, except for the new school signs out front.

I was stunned to see that the route to my aunt's house, with a view of the mountains, was now somewhat blocked with a lot of new homes, apartments, stores and cars, on a road that I remembered as being open landscape, where it looked very natural, with a few homes and stores, basically empty...I felt it was now ruined. I didn't expect it to change that much in 10 years.

In the city, I was amazed to see people on almost every block, of different ages, walking, riding bikes, or riding the bus; It's rare to see people do these things where I live, and if they do walk or ride the bus, they're in their teens or twenties.

When I came home, 'Lost' felt different to me; Even the idea of the internet seemed unimportant and a waste of time, compared to what I'd done and how I'd lived the last week and a half. I was worried and perplexed, that I'd suddenly lost interest in these things, but I got back into them. Actually, I'm still worried that maybe I am no longer interested in these things, that they, too, are now a part of my past.

Maybe this is just reverse culture shock. I guess I got used to living in hotels because I felt weird, coming home.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_shock

Reminds me of my travels a little.. You know how usually when people leave home for a length of time they get home sick, I never did I was always the opposite. It was when I was heading home that I felt sick and it would always stay with me a day after. Heading home was always the work part of any trip.

There are lots of times I ignore the internet for awhile, not a hundred percent why just every once in awhile the thought of being on the internet made me sick so i'd forget it exsited for a good week or so...