Escapism - The definition

"The tendency to seek distraction and relief from unpleasant realities, especially by seeking entertainment or engaging in fantasy." 

I've felt the road fall beneath my feet although everything around me appears perfect, it's an unknown feeling, a distancing from those around me, I don't know why or how to explain it, I just start feeling this way. 

I need to escape from where I am, the cities that tower over my life, the daily routine of commuting, socialising and putting a smile on my face even to those who look at me with contempt.

I pack my bag and start looking for places to go, somewhere with water, somewhere with mountains and tree's, somewhere is a place that only my soul seems to know. 

Friends and family ask me, why do you do this? "if I knew the answers I probably wouldn't be going I say", it's like a call from nature, a voice from beyond, telling me to pilgrimage to a site unknown. I live in reverence to my being, I go where I must.

Telling me to re-fresh, re-charge and re-dedicate myself, although life feels fine at the time.

Maybe that why, maybe nature operates on a level that the conscious mind can't comprehend and only our inner essence can feel?

A beacon, a homecoming, in the distance I see paradise, behold the lake of tranquillity before me, rocky pebbles on the beach, crystal turquoise and optic white ice. I pick a few rocks up and skim them on the water, looking at the ripples that emulate across my life. 

Relief as I pitch my home for the night, ready for the stars of the mind, a buzz of energy that sings so loud, it's almost deafening, thoughts and ideas start streaming, goodbye to the concept of what we know as time.

Laying on my back, looking at the stars in the sky, I feel every one of them talk to me, telling me stories from the millennia's of life, an undeniable truth as stars cannot lie. 

After entertaining my eyes till the golden light breaks the dawn, they whisper the same message I felt a few days ago, thank you for coming to see me,  

now it's time to pack your bag, you must go!

Namaste.