Hey hey hey. Did you all miss me? Yeah I'm sure you did! I have had a wonderful weekend in Center Parcs with my entire extended family and it was just lovely. So fun and relaxing and exactly the same as it is every year. That's one of the best parts about it! But, now I'm in the real world. And I have a question for you, and I really would like answers please! In fact I have two things requiring answers, but one is only silly. This is serious... Someone said to me recently that escapism will only take you so far... and my question is this, is that true? Because obviously I know that when escapism becomes the reality rather than reality itself then there is a problem. But escapism, the silent and individual joy of slipping into another world, or pretending that things are not the way they are in whatever shape or form, I don't think that ever can go too far. Imagining things into reality is a way of life for me. I constantly dream myself into or out of different situations and of course I understand the concerns with leaving reality behind, maybe that's what this person meant. But I really can't see that escapism is bad. If it makes you feel good, how can it be? (Within sensible reason obviously!) It's just an active imagination being put to use!
Anyway, my second purpose of this blog, I have something of a quiz... all the following songs (one line of which is written) have something in common... ten points to the person who gets it first:
"If I lay here, if I just lay here, would you lie with me and just forget the world"
"I'm Luke, I'm five and my Dad's Bruce Lee"
"Now most people think of heaven, and they see those pearly gates"
That's it, I'll give you an easy one if no-one can get it!
Enjoy. xxx
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Erm no idea what the answer is! lol.
I do not know this mysterious person who has been making comments...but maybe what they were getting at is that there is no point in wishing ourselves away. There is a reality which we are given, which we can shape and alter, so we should be focussed on changing our reality, than closing our eyes to it and pretending. We all have dreams, and hopes, but to live in our dreams is to deny the importance and significance of the reality in which we exist
... unless that reality is not what you want, and there's nothing you can do about it. You cannot always shape and alter the reality you are given. So closing your eyes is a wa of dealing with it.
No-closing your eyes is running away. The reality is yours to change. You can't spend the whole of your life looking forward to a perfect ideal that is never reached!
No but you can spend the whole of your life aiming for something perfect regardless of whether it can be reached or not. Sometimes life is crap and closing your eyes to get away from it is a way of staying sane and coping with it. It's like having a tiny holiday. There is nothing wrong with that.
Yeah you can have all the points, that was the tenuous link... all about vehicles. I'll think of a more difficult one next time!
Oh and the easy one I was going to include was "I'm leaving on a jetplane..."
Hee hee, either that or "the wheels on the bus go round and round"...
Hey Kat
I think escapism can be a cop out sometimes, imagining yourself in another world where the problems in your life, the crap situations you feel can't be changed etc is not dealing with those problems, it is not an attempt to actively change those situations you don't like. If you make a conscious effort to make a change a little escapism along the way can help to keep you same as long as you don't rely on that and not do anything else. Escapism obviously feels good but not everything that feels good is actually good and this can't really be true I think of one thing and not of others, i'm pretty sure this isn't news to you but thought I'd remind you! Escapism is only a temporary thing, you leave your problems in reality and transport yourself into the imaginary just to come back to reality and your problems are still sitting there waiting for you. I'm sure you've experienced that before, I know I have, you try and sweep things under the carpet and forget about them but they come back to bite you inevitably in the bum and it's worse becasue you're happy in your imaginary world and when you snap back to reality you just go oh crap because you're instantly reminded that your problems are still there. Escapism is pretending, it's a farce which would drive you insane trying to maintain, it is much better to yes maybe do a bit of escapism as a bit of therapy but never just do it without actively trying to change your reality, there's nothing I think that cannot be changed with effort and God's help, it may take a long time but just saying it'll never change I'll just pretend it's gone away does not help, you just end up feeling worse! I don't mean to say you're wrong rrraaaah I just don't want you to be miserable because you feel that there's something in your life you feel you can't change and also this feeling slapping you in the face every time you come back to reality after a bit of escapism which will make you feel worse. Think of the simpsons - marge goes away for a bit and the rest of the simpsons just pile all the garbage under the carpet but it gets so bad that they end up having to surf along the garbage waves to get across the living room!, trying to pretend a problem isn't there only makes it a bigger problem!
Nic
xxxx
"Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends."
Lol...I think escapism can be good in certain contexts. Day dreaming is a wonderful way of getting through boring lectures etc...But it shouldn't be used to escape from your life and create false happiness. I regularly use escapism to hide from the things I hate in life...maybe imagine that the things that I want to happen are, that things aren't happening. and for that short period of time I might be deliriously happy. But when I come back to the cold reality everything seems so much worse.
Escapism when used in excess can be self defeating. It's kind of like alcohol. Drinking to forget things. For a while we are numb to the world. Numb to our problems, but the harsh reality of soberness is much more difficult to cope with when you have a hangover!!
By all means escape Kat! But don't rely on it to cope with whatever difficulties life throws at you, in my experience it only makes things much much worse. Things may sound stupid and silly when you say them out loud. But remember that you have a lot of friends around you that would be very willing to listen to anything you may need to escape from.
:-)
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