By Chuck Hustmyre
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What she fears, Walsh said, is that Brianna misinterpreted Tolle's message, that she felt she had to strike out on her own, that she had to leave with nothing, that she had to rid herself of her past and future in order to find true enlightenment. In that type of misinterpretation, Walsh explained, "There's no future; there's no plans. It's just living in the now, the moment, the now, now, now."
Walsh continued: "I think she thought that the 'now' was someplace other than where she was, and that's where she wanted to be. That is the big mistake that people make, trying to be somewhere. They don't get it that you're there already."
Walsh last saw her daughter on Jan. 11, but said she believes Brianna may have tried to leave the night before. As reported earlier by Crime Library's Steve Huff, the night before Brianna disappeared, a sheriff's deputy found the teenager wandering along a roadside in the middle of the night. The deputy gave Brianna a ride into town and, at her request, dropped her off at a supermarket. A few hours later she met her boyfriend, who had come in from Texas, at the Livingston bus station, and the two of them caught a cab back to the house Brianna shared with her mother.
"I think Brianna was planning to leave the night before," Chera Walsh told Crime Library. "What she wanted to do was go off on her journey that night."
The next morning, according to Walsh, Brianna told her boyfriend, Montana Standish, 16, "I made a poor choice."
"I think the poor choice was leaving that night," Walsh said, adding that at the time, southern Montana was caught in the grip of a bitter freeze, with high winds and light snow. "So she went to bed, slept three hours, and left the next day."
Walsh said she supports what she believes began as her daughter's personal journey toward spiritual self-fulfillment; yet, she also thinks Brianna's journey was a misguided one because of the pain her disappearance has caused her family. "On one hand there's a part of me that wants to admire her," Walsh said. "On the other hand I think she's about as stupid as they come."
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