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In life in order to move on or escape after bad
experience or certain difficulties that may occur in future, some people
usually opt for escapism. This is written to understand that escapism do
help moving on although temporarily and may cause regret and guilt
afterwards.
Life has been defined by many authors differently, it has also been
portrayed as a sequence of continuous problems till death and escapism
refers to giving up or moving away from certain difficult situation and
picking the easy way out. the question is does it really helps?
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There are many ways to handle the problems or difficult condition, one
of them is escapism. Escapism is the method which we learned in a very
early life, by telling a lie or concealing the truth in a crucial
situation and then further in a life we often use this method and this
became a pattern of life and our behavior.
Consider, you are going towards your destination and on your way you
come across a river, now there is no boat that can take you to the other
side of the river, and you can not swim a river even if you are the best
swimmer in the world. What would you do now? Changing your destination
just because of this hurdle would be escaping.
My question is how many times would you compromise your destination? And
what will you get? You would end up with the second best and believe me
you will find a large crowd there because you are not the only person in
this world who escapes from his problems.
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Now days many of us look at our problems with a pessimistic approach.
Our minds are programmed to see the glass half empty and the word
“impossible” we carry it on the tip of our tongue. We have lost faith in
the fact that there is no problem that cannot be solved. Every problem
has solution, but again sometimes its look difficult. Majority of people
who escape are those who do not want difficulties in their lives.
If you adopt my simple theory, you will never have to escape, and the
theory is:
“Short term gain cause long term loss and short term loss cause long
term gain”
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Here, escapism is the short term gain and at the end you will find
yourself in overall loss, because every time you get the easy way out
you not only compromise your desired destination but you end up with
mediocre achievements like million others around you. On the other hand
facing the challenges and working hard may be a short term loss as you
have to face difficult situation. as in the above mentioned scenario,
you will start thinking as to how you can cross the river. And with
positive attitude and perseverance you may even reach to the point where
you are ready to build a boat with the wood of the trees around the
bank. Yes people might call this a mad idea, you might even be left
alone but with determination and hard work you can surely succeed. Do
not worry about people because once you are done with your challenge
they will come back.
Let me end this, with this statement
I hated every minute of my training, but I said, “Don’t quit”. Suffer
now and live rest of the life as a champion “Muhammad Ali” |