The year....of.... "cultivated escapism"

If 2024 was the "year of the DGAF" and 2023 " the year of no regrets", the end of 2022 a time of inner peace, and 2021 , a year where a lot changed ( or did it really?), what about 2025?

Its the year where I really felt a year older or maybe even more, no kidding- not that I don't feel time pass by in other years - but this year,  I really felt it.  Maybe its the psychological threshold of crossing 40. Maybe its the acceleration in curing of a whole spectrum of delusions  ( a process no doubt which happens over many years and maybe even decades) and how reality hits you.

Does that last part mean I am less escapist than ever? Probably not,  i would still think.  Its one thing to just "know" the realities of life, and another thing to "problem solve" it,  if you get what I mean. This is even assuming the "problem set" remains static , and new problems which you think you need to solve for,  are not added to the list. Which may not be the case.

Is that escapism? Maybe.  Is that a bad thing? Over the long run and assuming the problems need a solution at some point,  then probably yes. But that's assuming many of them actually have one!

But is it that bad to be in a state of "cultivated" and yet harmless escapism? No easy answers,  but I think its certainly less damaging than escapism borne out of delusions - and harmful delusions at that. Then again,  you can ask if any delusions , or even a cultivated escapism, is harmless after all?

Who knows?!  But 2025 was a year when things to think about,  things to problem solve for,  were parked aside for another day and another year. Status quo coupled with conscious escapism,  and maybe,  even deliberate delusions, is quite alluring-  if you can afford it in the short run,  though the time decay means the costs add up in the long run. 

2025 was indeed the year of conscious "cultivated" escapism.

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