Escape
03.09.07
Posted under: Thoughts
What’s yours?
I mean, everybody once in a while wants to escape reality, right? But we can’t always due it or fly to wherever it is we want to go, so how due you turn your mundane world into your escape?
For me, I choose books, movies, and games. Basically, I get lost in entertainment. I get lost in somebody else’s life so I don’t have to deal with mine. Sometimes, it’s not even a necessary escape for me; sometimes… well, it’s entertaining.
Lately, I feel that I’ve had the need to read more, to watch more, to get lost more. I know it’s not the greatest defense to deal with my problems, but it helps me stay calm. It helps me find my own way to cope.
Is there a chance you could ever get so lost, you can’t get back out again? I don’t know really… maybe it depends on the escape, right? My escapes aren’t that damaging to life, or at least I think so. But other people have different escapes, may it be drugs, alcohol, thrill-seeking, etc. So for those people, how do they know when it’s time to stop faking and time to start dealing? How does anyone know? Do you wait for it to get that bad?
I don’t know really. If you haven’t realized by now, I like to pose questions that have many answers, some of which are clear and some of which are not. But, that’s life right? Sometimes it’s clear and fun and other times it’s all muddled up with shit. Oh well, deal we shall.
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Tags: books, escape, games, Life, movies, reality
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Stockton Boy wrote:
Monday, September 3, 2007 @ 2:05 am GMT-8
You don’t need to be afraid.
Julie voiced:
Monday, September 3, 2007 @ 3:47 pm GMT-8
Escapes are great, that’s what TV is for, just zone out and get dumb. But you’re right, some people can’t tell when it’s time to stop and they get too addicted, like with drugs and other addicting things. We just have to remember what’s real and what’s fake and do enough of both to make life tolerable.
Mari stated:
Monday, September 3, 2007 @ 5:44 pm GMT-8
Mari agrees with Julie. TV FTW.
Mari’s been a video game zombie. Mari’s game addiction got so bad that her grades dropped below “half-assed” into “I’m dead” range. Mari thought of nothing except what level she had to get to the next day.
Mari can’t game online, because Mari knows Mari will get addicted to gaming again. Mari had to move the TV so she’d have to sit uncomfortably on the floor to play PS2 and GameCube (thus reducing the time Mari spends doing so). Mari had to delete all her old save files so she had nothing to just plug in and screw around with for hours. Mari has to really fight herself to not play games all the time.
Mari does okay with TV and books, but the Internet is almost as bad as Mari’s gaming addiction. Mari has to watch it, or she’ll end up sitting in front of the screen for days on end, then wonder what she did for the last week.
Mari knows about the dangers of balancing reality with her escape far too well…
Margaret typed:
Thursday, September 6, 2007 @ 6:27 pm GMT-8
For me, it’s music. Recently it’s been a coping mechanism for how crappy I’ve been feeling lately. I especially like songs with pretty melodies.
I’m not sure where the line is between going too far or not. It’s definitely at some point before “interfering with friendships/social life/grades/fun activities.” Obviously the line has really been crossed when friendships are affected.