New Frontiers
An Essay on Escapism
2023
2023
2023
Year 2023
Year 2023
Insights, Copy, Concept
Insights, Copy, Concept
Insights, Copy, Concept
Type Insights, Copy, Concept
Type Insights, Copy, Concept
Pace and pressure—the name of the 21st-century game. With this project, I explored escapism in various shapes and sizes.
When the world wears us out, escapism, standing at the doorstep of the cottage of comfort, graciously greets us with a warm embrace. But what can come across as a friendly face to some is also the frivolous friend your parents weren’t keen on you hanging out with.
For starters, I wrote an essay on escapism looking into our collective need to escape reality. In doing that, however, ideas and questions entered my mind.
What if we could apply escapism like moisturizer? What if there was something that could provide us a moment of reflection upon conquering the porcelain throne, instead of scrolling our phones like there’s no tomorrow?
Pace and pressure—the name of the 21st-century game. With this project, I explored escapism in various shapes and sizes.
When the world wears us out, escapism, standing at the doorstep of the cottage of comfort, graciously greets us with a warm embrace. But what can come across as a friendly face to some is also the frivolous friend your parents weren’t keen on you hanging out with.
For starters, I wrote an essay on escapism looking into our collective need to escape reality. In doing that, however, ideas and questions entered my mind.
What if we could apply escapism like moisturizer? What if there was something that could provide us a moment of reflection upon conquering the porcelain throne, instead of scrolling our phones like there’s no tomorrow?
Pace and pressure—the name of the 21st-century game. With this project, I explored escapism in various shapes and sizes.
When the world wears us out, escapism, standing at the doorstep of the cottage of comfort, graciously greets us with a warm embrace. But what can come across as a friendly face to some is also the frivolous friend your parents weren’t keen on you hanging out with.
For starters, I wrote an essay on escapism looking into our collective need to escape reality. In doing that, however, ideas and questions entered my mind.
What if we could apply escapism like moisturizer? What if there was something that could provide us a moment of reflection upon conquering the porcelain throne, instead of scrolling our phones like there’s no tomorrow?
Pace and pressure—the name of the 21st-century game. With this project, I explored escapism in various shapes and sizes.
When the world wears us out, escapism, standing at the doorstep of the cottage of comfort, graciously greets us with a warm embrace. But what can come across as a friendly face to some is also the frivolous friend your parents weren’t keen on you hanging out with.
For starters, I wrote an essay on escapism looking into our collective need to escape reality. In doing that, however, ideas and questions entered my mind.
What if we could apply escapism like moisturizer? What if there was something that could provide us a moment of reflection upon conquering the porcelain throne, instead of scrolling our phones like there’s no tomorrow?
Pace and pressure—the name of the 21st-century game. With this project, I explored escapism in various shapes and sizes.
When the world wears us out, escapism, standing at the doorstep of the cottage of comfort, graciously greets us with a warm embrace. But what can come across as a friendly face to some is also the frivolous friend your parents weren’t keen on you hanging out with.
For starters, I wrote an essay on escapism looking into our collective need to escape reality. In doing that, however, ideas and questions entered my mind.
What if we could apply escapism like moisturizer? What if there was something that could provide us a moment of reflection upon conquering the porcelain throne, instead of scrolling our phones like there’s no tomorrow?
An Essay on Escapism
An Essay on Escapism
An Essay on Escapism
An Essay on Escapism
An Essay on Escapism
Casually browsing the Merriam-Webster dictionary, as you do, I stumbled upon the following definition of escapism: “habitual diversion of the mind to purely imaginative activity or entertainment as an escape from reality or routine”. Until recently, I imagined escapism to be avoidance dressed nicely; nevertheless, it seems that escapism equates to deliberately painting outside the lines, simply because it’s pleasing.
I dove head-first into the cool and serene ocean of escapism. Here, I understood there to be two sides of the same coin: Escapism and Avoidance, also known as: Pull and Push; Active and Passive; Deliberate and Compulsive. Looking into both concepts, however, doesn’t explain where our need to escape reality stems from. So, what are we trying to escape and why?
Nothing but the ideal is good enough. We struggle to meet our own unrealistic expectations. For instance, after countless hours of wrestling my inner critic, unable to find the perfect example of paralyzing perfectionism, I surrendered. Only then, with a defeated look on my face, was I able to recognize the perfect example emerging before my eyes; I only had to look in the mirror.
We pursue the ideal life, like wide-eyed lizards frantically looking for noonday rocks on a warm summer day. Ironically, while pursuing the ideal life we forget to live. Instead, we drown in duties. We become walking to-do lists. We forget how to have fun. The illusion of the ideal is the ideal illusion; never realized, but ever evolving; like sailing up a creek without a paddle. How might we regain control?
Just like we should apply sunscreen to our faces, even on cloudy days, I believe we need to apply a little escapism to our lives too. We need to initiate dream-nourishing activities on purpose, rather than partake in mind-numbing activities out of compulsion. Dose your escapism right and you may just start living again.
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