What Do You Do To Escape?  

Since I'm a real lover of music I can understand how it can be a great escape...lots of times especially when I'm cleaning in the apt. I crank up the music and sing out loud...to the dismay of my two cats..LOL

Yes there is a wonderful serenity to the water. And yes, you really hit a spot there with me about reading Harry Potter....I wouldn't mind being at Hogwarts at times! Of course there was quite a lot of darkness involved especially in the later books--I actually found all the "deaths" in the books depressig.

i agree with you. we always want the easy way out. the way we live it's like throwing caution in the air and when it fires back we scurry away to some place safe. we can't keep doing that coz soon enough we'll run out of place to run to.

First let me address desireeo --although what I say here can go for you too Aussie

Desireeo--you'll see my response to your reply as you missed what I was saying and gave a different meaning to what I mean by "escaping"

I'm very much an activist in many ways...I'm involved with a lot of issues concerning world affairs such as environmental issues...I'm not implying that I'm a person who tries to ignore the world's problems and hides my head in the sand wishing it'll go away by magic...I'm NOT saying this...but we can't all be activist 24 hours a day...To keep one's sanity I think it's important to have the ability to escape and just for a little while forget everything--for me that is watching fantasy or kiddie movies reading books of the same genre and even writing my own fantasy stories

Oh..and Aussie...I don't even have a washer or dryer...I wash things by hand to save money and hang things to dry on...yup clothes lines in my bathroom--heck don't even have a dishwasher...I'm the dishwasher..hehe

I understand what you meant by escapism.

But I am not losing any sleep over the world problems. I have enough to worry about with my own problems.

I don't have a dishwasher either. But I could not live without my washing machine. I was without one for 18 months... and that sucks big time. lol

I know what a clothes line is. It's that thingamajigy out back I hang my clothes on to dry whenever the weather lets me. I also have 2 clothes racks that I set up in my living room to dry clothes on if it's raining/snowing/too darn cold out as well. My mantle also becomes a clothes hanger for the shirts to dry. I'm my own dishwasher as well. I don't want an auto one. IF I need to dry something like a big blanket or sheets, I'll head to the laundromat with a pocketful of quarters. Like you, Aussies, I can't live w/o my washer with 3 ppl in the household. lol

Hehe...and we all know how your kitties help you with your hung up clean clothes that are drying, right blackbrier...heehee

Another good genre of books to read are true life stories of people who have conquered a lot of setbacks and despite the odds became successful...they can inspire one at times and make one feel good

I think maybe you're missing my points and ideas just a bit here.

I'm not trying to suggest that by "escaping" we forget the problems that are going around the world and not do anything or try to come up with problems that our world is facing

...Since you don't know me well, and perhaps haven't read many of my other discussions, you've missed the concepts that I'm very much an activist both from an ecological/environmental viewpoint, to animal and human rights and so forth. In fact I just did a discussion about our usage of too much plastic items that is harming our environment.

I'm very much a realist and realistic person who is all too aware of what is going on...my point was however is that we ALL need some time off and escape from these problems and concerns of the world even if just for a few minutes a day...we can't all be activist 24 hours a day after all

i see your point. maybe, i got too carried away. it's not just your post i was trying to respond. i was just sending a message to everybody that there's no way we can always get away with all these unless we have to address what's going on. anyway, i should just have concentrated in what you have asked us for. you're right. i don't know you at all and i haven't read any of your other discussions. i didn't know you're an active environment crusader. well, this certain discussion of yours came off as something like you just wanna have fun while the rest of the world rots. ok, maybe that's too harsh but it did sound something like that. anyway, i'm all with having fun and forget the world's problem for a while. to tell you the truth i don't even segregate my trash. i just lessen my use of plastic bags and reuse some that i got. like aussie, i don't lose sleep over global warming but i do care enough to do my part. peace!

Huh?

I'm not a fanatic about the news either...I mean I at least try to keep up with some of the basics that are going on in the world but that's it as I do find it depressing. My one neighbor on the other hand is a news junkie...I mean she must listen to the news on the TV or radio nearly 24 hours a day...and of all things she suffers from depression...like duh? If you suffer from depression I think the LAST thing you want to listen to is the news--I mean crap...if your going to have the radio on, why not listen to music instead?

Walking used to help me so much. Now it is getting so hot that walking to relax actually is more stressing!

I feel for you. Where we're at, it still feels like Winter some days, though thankfully it is starting to feel warmer for the most part.

If it's hot where we are, I try to get up into the mountains surrounding Vancouver, it usually feels a little bit cooler up there. Besides which, the Cypress trees and the Pine trees smell fantastic!

I can understand that about walking. Did you know that walking is not only good exercise but is good for depression. Now I don't suffer from depression, but I find that for instance if I decide to stay home all day, I feel more drained and tired fo some reason, so I do make a point of getting out of the apt. and take a walk somewhere, anywhere and I feel so much better and energized. Also, I don't have a car, so I do have to walk everywhere anyway

I think one of the things I need to get back into doing is some serious meditation type of thing...even if just for a few moments to just still my mind and block everything out for awhile. Now a lot of people here know me as just a tad bit of an animal activist and campaigner for animal rights...but even I have to step back a bit from that from time to time...I used to belong to a lot of pet rescue groups but since stopped...the alert messages were so friggin depressing about all the pets that were going to be killed off due to lack of room in the shelters...not that I'm not caring...I'm caring too much I think and would really get to me

Yes children's movies are a wonderful way to escape...have you ever watched the 2003 version of Peter Pan...my favorite!

Hi pyewacket! No, I haven't watched it yet. I have watched the old one and for the last few days, I have been watching over and over again, the "Sound of Music" and hubby is really getting annoyed. haha..Take care and have a nice day.