What are you escaping from?

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I'm not escaping, I'm just enjoying myself and stewing.

There is a wall between what's inside my head and the world, it's just that 'scapist falls inside that wall.

 

[EHKOS]

Everything. Despite my best attempts I am becoming cynical. I can't help but feel it was built into us. 18, no job, no skills, dropout, divorced family, money problems. But hey, fuck all that I just crafted a refined metal, three more until I get my Juju!

 

[Cymen]

The fear that life might be meaningless and I will be forgotten as soon as I am dead without having any impact on the world.

 

[Someone Depressing]

The fact that my life is just a big shamble of Eating M&M's, playing Video-Games, and Drawing Fan-Art of Sean Bean and Natalie Portman Line-Dancing in a Stripper's club, and the fact, that I, Will never have any inpact on the world, and I'll probally be forgotten, and my family'll probally sell all my stuff, and Own my house, and have kids there, not caring the fact that their son had accidentaly hung himself on a door handle in that very house.

A.K.A what the guy who Voiced that twat from House of the Dead 2 thought of after he realised that his career had stopped after one, measly, pointless role.

 

[zhoominator]

Right now? Dirac notation. I fucking HATE Dirac notation, though I have a feeling it's going to be vital now that we're getting into "spin". Bollocks.

 

[Gitty101]

Life. I play games that give me the freedom to do whatever I please, when I please. No bills, exams, or nags. It's just nice to immerse myself to escape for a while ^^

 

[Steven Macias]

eh most of my time that I spend off is looking for a quick fix of fantasy to leave my stressful life and relax a bit so I spend a lot of time either here, youtube, or DeviantArt.

 

[PurplePlatypus]

I?m not so much running as looking for something.
Life?s not so bad and really it?s far from uninteresting but there?s a certain mundanely in day to day life, a lot of time to fill. So I fill that time with imaginary worlds, my own and other peoples because they are interesting and entertaining. It?s taking bits of reality, our experiences and making something else out of it by twisting and playing with it.

 

[Kinaori]

My soul-crushing, utterly meaningless excuse for a job (complete with a big pile of fakers, of which I am by necessity one, a whole lot of ridiculous and childish politics, and cubes the size of a porto-potty inside a massive complex with bad lighting) that I have no choice but to do if I don't want to live in a cardboard box.

The cardboard box is sounding exceedingly appealing. Stay in school, kids, and really do what you actually want to do with your life.

 

[Tizzmarelda]

The loss of my lover. She's with another man now. but iam slowly making my peace with it all. il soon be in the military pursuing my dreams but i think she might always be there in the back of my mind an the corner of my heart. Take care ica .

 

[babinro]

Boredom and potential loneliness.

I don't find myself feeling lonely and turn to gaming...but I'd imagine I would feel lonely if all my gaming outlets were taken from me for an extended period of time.

 

[Kuroneko97]

Teasing. Several students at my school constantly tease me and make me feel like a piece of shit under a person's foot. At least on the Escapist, people sympathize with me more than my own family really does. They just tell me that I'm being to sensitive and to ignore them. When I say I can't ignore them, they say I'm not trying. I do try, but I can't. And let me just say that when you are told for about seven years that you're ugly, talentless, stupid, and annoying by the people that always surround you, you begin to believe it.

Escapist is pretty much the only place that I feel I can talk openly about something and know that there will be many to give me advice and show support.

 

[WafflesandBacon]

Reality, really. I'm trying to escape the fact that this is all there is, it won't be more.

 

[Crazy_Man_42]

Life, boring, boring life where you daydream about aliens attacking your school and then friendly aliens give you a rifle so that you can kill the bad aliens. REAL LIFE SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[AmayaOnnaOtaku]

The black hole in my heart that is currently threatening to consume me. Some nights, I'm not escaping very well at all.

damn someone just said what I have been feeling for these 3 mths. My black hole also has the emotions and pain of the past plus the unending stress of the 8th circle of hell that is called my job

 

[nomzy]

Emptiness. Sometimes it's nice to feel something instead of just being numb most of the time.

 

[Mr.Mattress]

My Board life... And School mostly.

 

[endnuen]

Boredom.
And for a time to forget a girl, it's not a problem whenever I do something, be it working out, doing stuff with my friends or anything else really, but when I sit and do nothing the blasted witch crawls back into my skull.
I'm getting better though, got my mojo back 'n all, so a few weeks more and it should finally be a done chapter. At least for some time.

 

[mechanixis]

Fuckin' anxiety disorders, how do they work?

Many aspects of adult and student life can be borderline panic inducing for me. I think it's fair to say most people pursue this hobby for the escapism element, whether they're conscious of that or not. It's very inviting and enveloping and let's you leave the world behind like nothing else. Waking up from a gaming binge can be a terrible feeling.

But you know what? You're way worse off than I am. You, sir, have every right to tune out for a good long while. I'm getting back to work. I'm hitting post and closing this browser right the fuck down.

 

[AWDMANOUT]

Did anybody say the Matrix yet? Well, I don't give a shit.
I'm escaping from the Matrix.

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