Life and Escapism

In life in order to move on or escape after bad experience or certain difficulties that may occur in future, some people usually opt for escapism. This is written to understand that escapism do help moving on although temporarily and may cause regret and guilt afterwards.


Life has been defined by many authors differently, it has also been portrayed as a sequence of continuous problems till death and escapism refers to giving up or moving away from certain difficult situation and picking the easy way out. the question is does it really helps?
 


There are many ways to handle the problems or difficult condition, one of them is escapism. Escapism is the method which we learned in a very early life, by telling a lie or concealing the truth in a crucial situation and then further in a life we often use this method and this became a pattern of life and our behavior.

Consider, you are going towards your destination and on your way you come across a river, now there is no boat that can take you to the other side of the river, and you can not swim a river even if you are the best swimmer in the world. What would you do now? Changing your destination just because of this hurdle would be escaping.

My question is how many times would you compromise your destination? And what will you get? You would end up with the second best and believe me you will find a large crowd there because you are not the only person in this world who escapes from his problems.
 


 

Now days many of us look at our problems with a pessimistic approach. Our minds are programmed to see the glass half empty and the word “impossible” we carry it on the tip of our tongue. We have lost faith in the fact that there is no problem that cannot be solved. Every problem has solution, but again sometimes its look difficult. Majority of people who escape are those who do not want difficulties in their lives.
If you adopt my simple theory, you will never have to escape, and the theory is:

“Short term gain cause long term loss and short term loss cause long term gain”
 


 

Here, escapism is the short term gain and at the end you will find yourself in overall loss, because every time you get the easy way out you not only compromise your desired destination but you end up with mediocre achievements like million others around you. On the other hand facing the challenges and working hard may be a short term loss as you have to face difficult situation. as in the above mentioned scenario, you will start thinking as to how you can cross the river. And with positive attitude and perseverance you may even reach to the point where you are ready to build a boat with the wood of the trees around the bank. Yes people might call this a mad idea, you might even be left alone but with determination and hard work you can surely succeed. Do not worry about people because once you are done with your challenge they will come back.
Let me end this, with this statement


I hated every minute of my training, but I said, “Don’t quit”. Suffer now and live rest of the life as a champion “Muhammad Ali”

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