Comments on: Escapism

By: Nancy

Nancy — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:33:49 +0000

Hey Sally , i know exactly where you are coming from… i been doing that for ever, and escapr forms have change with the change of age and friends, but escapism has always been there. I jusdt think its a time when you lift that heavy sack you carry on your back thruoghout life and return to being a child, without having to think so hard only letting go and enjoy your body mind and soul being set free for a while.
Its always been a method of recharging for me, cooling down if i’m upset and clearing issues that mess my head.

By: shalabieh

shalabieh — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 12:33:54 +0000

Ammar why do you always make me think harder than I already do… that is a great point. Since when we escape we are doing the things we love how are they an escape from ourselves.

Perhpas they are just momentray lapses from self analysis and so even if they are extensions of ourselves we are still taking a break from a certain aspect of us.

Did that make any sense?

By: Ammar

Ammar — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 11:01:01 +0000

escapism or extension of the self? (Ammar rubs his chin contemplatively)

By: shalabieh

shalabieh — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 07:31:03 +0000

Ali dear it was a pleasure hubbly bubbling with you I hope we do it again soon. Hopefully for purely recreational purposes only

Rami, escapism is not always negative, and you are right it depends on what you do to escape. I agree with you on Self analysis it is a crippling force and is very energy consuming. I think u hit the nail on the nose with your interpreation of my escapism. I’d love to meet up and chat about this in the near future. Miss ya

By: Rami

Rami — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 11:36:41 +0000

Escape is negative. What I think you are doing is extremely positive. I would call it avoiding self indulging. Human beings are made to build (Let us not debate the meaning of building though). The moment we stop building and working and we have free time, we start looking at ourselves and our lives. Concentration needs focus. The latter needs energy. Self analysis is important once in a while, but we all know how we can over analyse until we are paralyzed. Thus we would be consuming our energy for paralysis. I think what you are doing is extremely positive and we should all learn how to keep ourselves busy with building and working. Having fun is part of that the building process by the way. (my 2 cents)

By: Ali

Ali — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:09:11 +0000

I’m glad I atleast shared the Hubbly Bubbly with you, but these Hun are temp getaways for the Human soul. Maybe, and I’m not giving any adivse here, maybe you need to know what is realy bothering you, maybe there is something that you need to change, anyways it’s still the begining of the year and there is always time for change. At the end I might be wrong, but what can a friend do, just give advises