Escapism can help one deal with trauma, pain, illness, and just everyday drab living. Here I am, after all posting from work...
But I've found that when I've been especially stressed or unhappy, it's been moredifficult to escape. Oddly enough, escaping seems to come more easily when things are happy, even though that would seem to be the time when it's needed most.
The analogy of the prisoner is just so perfect. The danger is in letting yourself become so miserably obsessed with your jailors and the walls around you that you forget about the outside altogether.
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