Need for an escape....

              

If you could get a free ticket to any place, where would you go?

Definitely, some place away from here or wherever you are right now. Well, that’s our tendency. We always want to get away from the place where we are now and maybe get settled in our own utopia.

Well, most of us aren’t that lucky to get that golden ticket. So, we spend our lives planning and working to get that ticket. The ticket to a place where everything is perfect. The ticket to a place where you could be “you”.

While, I write this, I wonder, if we even might say that we’re happy here. Then, why do we long for an escape? Why do we yearn for it?

For me, that escape is not just an escape from the place.

I could say, that it will be an escape from this identity itself.

We strive to create a better identity for ourselves, in this path, one could say that we stray further away from what we are. Or that’s what I just feel. This better identity might seem futile when things don’t go as expected. And we might even end up changing the identity even more for our needs.

One might identify you as a kind guy and another as a cruel one. But at the end, does it all matter?

Depends on the things you did. But by being stuck to the identities created for you by others, aren’t you just imbibing those identities to yours? Well, this is just my thought.

Escape enters here.

Escape could even mean a new page in your book. Here, you can write the script. And there are going to be new characters and your identities might even change. While being away from everything you’ve known all this while, away from the stereotypes on you(?), you could actually end up becoming something else, maybe the person you’ve always wanted to be?

But the person you’ve always wanted to be was made to excel in the environment you’re in. This person who is created at this new place, could just be someone you couldn’t imagine!

Well, these uncertainties do excite us! and also scare us. Well, it scares me a lot! But what’s life without experiencing this even once? We face so many uncertainties in this meticulous society of ours and we face them earnestly. Then, why not take a chance?

Escape, where?

Well, for me, that’d be a place where there’s no restriction on expression. Certain emotions do carry stigma in this society, my escape would be to a place where there are no such stigmas! Maybe, all this exists in my head.

What if, the escape is just from our mindset? Maybe, it is nothing related to the place or the people? Maybe it’s all just us? all the time, searching for an escape to justify our failures?

Maybe the escape is just an excuse?

Well, maybe escape is real, but we just failed to realise what it is exactly?