His leg is all smashed up, and we're not sure if he'll ever be back to gymnastics. Just as Dan is making progress down Socrates' path, the young man gets into a motorcycle accident. Bonus: he has a major crush on this other student of Socrates' that shows up on rare occasion. Eventually he accepts his teacher's advice to take the way of the peaceful warrior. Socrates, with lectures and the ability to give Dan visions, teaches the young man that the mind is the source of his dissatisfaction, and that to become truly happy, he must stop trying to figure the world out and instead learn the difficult discipline of living in the moment, healthy and free.ĭan straddles the fence between Socrates' philosophy and conventional wisdom for a few months, feeling alienated from his classmates and gymnastics team. Dan meets him at a gas station suddenly, names him Socrates, and becomes a student of his way of life. In the dreams, though, this weird, white-haired dude seems to be the answer to everything.Īnd in fact, the old man is the solution. Recurring nightmares about his mortality drag him down. What more could a guy want?īut there's a problem. His studies are going well he's got a girlfriend named Susie. A junior at the University of California at Berkeley in the 1960s, he's a popular gymnastics star piling up trophies.
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