But who are you really lying to? Seriously, who? You just end up backing off from them all the way until you are eventually walled into a corner one day and you have no choice but to face them.
Until you acknowledge and muster the courage to deal with what you are trying to escape from, your issues will not miraculously disappear.
They will continue to be there, creating looping patterns in your life. You will keep finding yourself stuck in similar situations and contexts, thinking the same things, feeling the same emotions, and doing the same things — over, and over, and over again — until the day you finally decide to do something about them. Loops require conscious intervention in order to break out of them.
As long as you are trying to avoid something, a part of you is vibrating at a consciousness level of shame or guilt. So long as a part of you, however small, is trapped at that level, it makes you unable to fully progress and evolve as a person. To grow, you need to confront what you are trying to avoid. When you are trying to avoid something, it is usually a reflection of deeper inner issues which you have not resolved.
These issues are delicate. These issues are very real. It takes true strength and courage to be able to face them head on. Sometimes you may make some headway, only to be subdued afterward.
Sometimes, you get beaten back down almost immediately. This is especially so if it involves dealing with something you have been struggling with since a while back. For example, in running Personal Excellence, I witness my course participants and clients facing new blocks every week as they pursue their goals.
Sometimes, they may fall short of the targets they set. They may get discouraged and dismayed. But in the coaching process, they eventually regather themselves and continue to press on and fight.
They stay receptive to external help as they move forward. And because they keep going at it, they eventually succeed in the end.
You will grow bigger than your problems such that they are no longer problems. You will level up. If you need additional ammo, join support groups or get a good coach with a proven track record to battle these issues together. I promise you that it will simply be a matter of time before you emerge victorious.
When that happens, you will be living a life where you are truly liberated; a life where you are no longer running or hiding from something. A life of courage and bravery. A life of truth, authenticity and honesty to everyone. A life of integrity and honesty to yourself.
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Related Articles. All Articles ». Real life is difficult. Due to the modernization of the labor force, cooperative and social work has been replaced with men and women interfacing with machines or having them as communication intermediaries.
Consensus and collaboration have been replaced with ones and zeroes, decision trees, and metrics. This is not only true for work, but also for education. What this leads to is a sense of profound isolation, and for many, a loss of what it means to be human and alive. This is not how our ancestors lived. Even without technology, people collaborated and cooperated. Instead of sitting isolated in the computer lab late at night, or working on an assignment or experiment, you could be transported off to another world and be someone else different, and virtually live a different life.
The next generation of this is virtual reality, which will soon be powerful and small enough to be fully immersive. This disconnects us from the rest of humanity, and causes people to feel more lonely, isolated, and alone.
It also leaves many with a lack of empathy, understanding, or ability to separate real-life experiences and people from their virtual equivalents. All the while, the technology around us serves as a gigantic Skinner Box used to measure our conditioning and quantify our behavior and response. Over the past years, the cost of living has increased so much that both parents have to work, and there are also a significant number of single parents.
We also remove degrees of social interaction in other ways. With the emphasis on mobility of families for jobs, extended and close social interactions with close relatives and parents as part of the immediate social circle has decreased. As this has happened, the number of elderly and older relatives staying with their children or grandchildren has decreased.
This potentially leads to more isolation. If we make people the hero of their own little world, it gives people more reason to stay. In the real world, they feel like they are nothing. We have generations of people now who have significant accomplishments online in virtual worlds, and almost none to speak of outside of them.
They just understand that giving more like content means that people spend more time on the site, click more ads, or buy more items to quest on further. Keeping people angry, distracted, detached, and responding to stimuli without major consequences is now big business. Keeping them in a tunnel where their actions rid the world of evildoers and bring them fame, praise, and victory will keep them engaged, less likely to leave, and more likely to lash out at those that interfere with it or cause withdrawal.
The increased detachment leads to more anger and less empathy. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. Skip to content. Millions of people feel the need to escape, but from what?
Asking the questions Of course, these numbers will overlap to an extent, but I am not aiming to prove something statistically. Our personal and shared pain The Hungry Ghost.
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