Escape

Sometimes all we want to do is escape. Not the one where the characters of a story book escape the grasp of the evil queen. No.

Sometimes you want to genuinely escape. Flee. Abscond. You want to evade the reality, the present, the new tomorrow. You want to leave your past behind because it hasn’t given you any fruitful results and you certainly don’t expect your life to take a new course and bear sweet scented flowers on your path without any thorns. Your road is full of stones, thorns, breaks, falls, intense heat, harsh weathers and what not. But let’s admit it, at least once our hearts have longed to be free; to breathe in the fresh air of freedom, to elope and be married to freedom, to court liberty.

We all want to cut loose all our worldly ties and experience how it feels to bask in the sun without the fear of getting tan, to sit in the balcony and live in the chilly air without having the fear to catch a cold, to walk in the rains without the worry of wetting your clothes. We all want to run away to some place where there is solitude and there is just you and nobody else; where you have the peace of mind and time for yourself.

You have nights to dream about how your life has been and how you can mold it in the future; how much you have already ruined it and how you can now make it a bed of roses; you have those nights where you can just drink a cup of coffee and moan because of its warmth and taste, those nights where you can become a child again and gaze at the moon and star in wonder, in admiration, in awe.

Your escape gains you the privilege to experience those days where you can do what you want and not what you are compelled to do, you get to live the life you always wanted to.  You get to look at the birds hibernating, feeding their young ones, look at their stress free lives, and look at the love in their hearts. You get to familiarize how it feels to let your soul loose and wander away with the wind, swim in the streams, climb mountains, look at the sunsets.

Because it is in this escape that you get to be intimate with your surroundings, you get to apprehend the true you. It is in this escape when you laugh and soar high up in the sky without having the fear to fall.

But all this is when you make an escape and we all are coward to do so. In the end how much ever we don’t want to, we always wake up to reality and all our thoughts to cut and run, comes to a full stop. We wake up to reality. We wake up to the disappointed us.

Our escape is only in our dreams.