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What's up from Wellington!
we just got into the capital, Wellington last night, and it reminds me a lot of San Fran, the architecture, the buildings, the victorian style homes, the vibe. I def didn't expect it at all to be like this, cause i heard as you move more south the population gets sparse and everything gets more green and spacious, but it is the opposite here. But anyways, today we have the day off and were just gonna be filming some trip thoughts, and exploring Wellington. Tomorrow, I'll probably write a more in depth blog and just talk a lot about the specific instances and experiences here in NZ that have stuck with me and really got my wheels turning about my life, the united states, my family, my friends, and the extraordinary position i feel blessed to have been put in.

Here's a journal entry i wrote last night while just thinking about the trip as a whole.

I've been blessed to meet people all over the spectrum of life, I've spoken to: a mountaineer fighting to get out of his father's shadow, a fashionista who rewrote my thinking on "high" fashion culture, a Hip Hop pioneer who came up as a way to find a voice for his people, a professional rugby player with a burgeoning fashion company, the top hip hop producer who's as humble as God makes em, a prim and proper thoroughbred breeder who use to drive a truck and even played a knight of rohan, an activist surfer in his mid fifties who got sick in the middle of our interview, a zany brained potter who built his own railway, and is a character that even the most gifted storyteller couldn't create, a maori tour guide entrepeneur with no formal education, a happy family of vegan organic wine makers, a human tourism center dressed up in vintage clothing with with enough wit and facial animation to carry a silent film, and a musician who use to go to school at 13 to get high and sell drugs, yet now owns one of the top songs in New Zealand.

Not one of these successful fulfilled people share the same story, and all traveled radically different roads from each other and even more so from myself. Yet, in them i see myself, i see my friends, I see every single person struggling to raise up their true hearts voice because their conditioned logic, critics, and the so called "norm" tells them it can't be done, it shouldn't be done, and it won't be done. I've come to see that contentment in life isn't a single chance moment of Hollywood produced fate that turns your world upside down and reverses all of your life's previous hard luck fortunes. But it is a vision, a passion, and a series of small steps towards that vision quest that culminate in highs and lows, walls and breakthroughs. It is the unwanted results that are part of the process, but yet you learn to fall forward and see that failure is only a perception, and in actuality is our pride learning a unique lesson in order to gain new hindsights. But most of all, it is a collage of various experiences that illustrate to yourself that you actually are living, breathing, feeling, existing, and not a human doing, but truly in every essence, a human being.