The world crushes us down with the intensity of gravity, so ofcourse we have created routes with which we can escape from the pressures of life. Even if only but for a moment.
Hi and welcome to my blog, may you find time to take care of your mental health this year. Most importantly may you love yourself fiercely and spread love everywhere you go.
How do you let your hair down at the end of the day? Are you a drinker? Smoker? Sports enthusiast? Do you enjoy being crowded by friends and family? Whatever the case we all search for an escape to help us make sense of the world or to help us run from it.
Growing up, I found myself in situations where I was the youngest in the home. This at times made the home feel crowded especially when everyone was in the house. I’d escape into my head where I could control what was happening. Where I wasn’t alone with a grown ups but had people my age who could relate, understand, and empathize with me.
Everything at puberty seems more intense, it’s not just being shouted at it’s a collapse of trust and boundaries. It’s not simply chores, it’s a bunch of unanswered questions and an escape is craved for.
An escape is a form of what we would consider regaining “control”. Control? you may wonder, where is the control in taking drugs? The right to choose is a strong concept on gaining control and sometimes we choose the worst for ourselves because we would rather have some control.
Some of anything is better than a life where we feel like nothing belongs to us in anyway. So we pick things and escape to our hideaway where we can be everything we want to be, where we can be successful, where the world makes sense.
I hope today is the start of a series of difficult questions with what our escapes are or could be to help us cope with life. How can we escape to our happy place without putting a strain on our lives and ourselves.
May we find an escape that helps our mental health to thrive in the world as we spread love to everyone we come in contact with. May love guide and lead you to a beautiful escape.
