Elliot Larkin: Finding Solace in Searching Within
By Tori Rubloff
Upon leaving Palm Beach Gardens to start college at the University of Florida in 2008, Elliot Larkin, an eight-year resident of Gainesville, experienced the pain of feeling like an outcast, mentally and emotionally. “I was never relating to people and not allowing myself to get involved with things…. It created for a lot of misery,” he said. In his sophomore year, he took initiative to resolve his suffering. After visiting Buddhist centers in France, “journaling like mad,” meditating for up to 11 hours at a time and traveling to India to volunteer at Mother Teresa’s House of the Destitute and Dying, he begun to find peace with himself.
By Tori Rubloff
Upon leaving Palm Beach Gardens to start college at the University of Florida in 2008, Elliot Larkin, an eight-year resident of Gainesville, experienced the pain of feeling like an outcast, mentally and emotionally. “I was never relating to people and not allowing myself to get involved with things…. It created for a lot of misery,” he said. In his sophomore year, he took initiative to resolve his suffering. After visiting Buddhist centers in France, “journaling like mad,” meditating for up to 11 hours at a time and traveling to India to volunteer at Mother Teresa’s House of the Destitute and Dying, he begun to find peace with himself.
