"Much like a medically induced coma helps our brains heal from trauma,
escape is often just a way to survive the very fact that we have to live in our bodies.
Escape seems to go against the grain of our culture of self-improvement and self help that tells
us one of the highest goals we should aspire to is to be comfortable in our own skin. Escape also
connotes weakness. You flee something when you don't want to confront it; you run away when
something is too difficult to face, when there is no good response because the question is so
absurd.
But sometimes, you need to escape from reality into fantasy, where it's always the golden hour,
everything is drenched in honey, and nothing hurts."
~ from an article named "Watching and Reading About White People Having Sex Is My Escape" by Esther Wang.
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Sweet Nothings
PoetryThis will be a collection of some of my favorite poems or writings or passages. Hope you like my taste! - also, OBVIOUSLY these are not my works or else I wouldn't give the author credit at the end of any piece I post.... so don't even humor the...
