By Icy Kendrick
When I was twelve years old, I was a very rebellious Tween. Thinking I knew everything. Why? I sat under the Elders. I saw myself as this wise person because I was smart enough to sit under my elders and listen. Yes I was smart and wise for doing this. Although knowing the journey and living the Journey is NOT the same thing.
Looking back I can see that I was out of control. Reflecting on my life and surroundings I was a mirror to the things I was watching and taking time to ask the elders.
Escapism is an action word to me. It's the action of taking something, doing something is order to no longer feel the extreme feeling to act. To some it's a time out from reality. Reality gets too real and for the Soul of an Artist all that Realness of Reality is just too much of a Creative limitation to exist in.
TO others it feels like a box that just keeps closing in on the perceived limitations.
Escapism screams I want to be different, feel different want my circumstances to be different. Why? Because in that moment that person that want just wants to feel that escape.
The imaginary feeling that everything is indeed okay. For most we all just want things to be okay. Safe, healthy, clean, peaceful. What happens where there is no escape meaning there is no person, no substance, no pill, that can take away what you have been running from?
What if you have been escaping your growth?
I advocate for channeling verses escape. I advocate for mental health awareness and alternate mental health care.
In Persephone's Veil, one of your Tarot cards could be the Hanged man
Instead of escape, somethings come into your life to cause you to surrender to the growth and the changes. I have heard many wise women say,
In your Twenties you feel Grown, in
your Thirties you learn your mother was right, In your fifties you learn to spend more time with your mother if you can. When life gets hard you just have to keep on living long enough. Things will get better.
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