Escaping

Escaping, relieving stress, relaxing, is all so much easier to me with music. A lot of people like to let loose in their mind when they exercise. I’m sure you can tell, I hate exercising but I was learning to enjoy it when I got my first IPod. Suddenly being on the elliptical machine was an experience. This experience could be switched from relaxing to motivating with a swish of my thumb. Sadly one day after a party it disappeared - and that truly sucked. It wasn’t just exercise that suffered. Without this musical world that was so personal to me riding my bike to school was long and noisy, walking to my classroom felt awkward and car rides with the family were so boring.

A while after that my boyfriend lent me his IPod for the summer and with some help from my ADD medication I was back on track with my exercise routine, I was running and walking all four dogs one at a time every day. I was able to handle living with my mom again. Whenever she started nagging me about how messy the room was (I had to share a room with her and I had one drawer) I would just escape by putting my headphones on.

That IPod was lost along with several cell phones when we were in the keys and our boat sunk (everyone was alright apart from the phone not a horrible experience). So now I suffer without my music, I cannot exercises or ride my bike to school with a smile on my face. When I want to escape from it all I can either dance around my room to super loud music or mindlessly watch trash TV. I like the TV option because I seem to forget all my problems. I think about if RayJ will find love or if he is bound to liking the stripper type girls and if those tools will ever become men. I think that is a great escape.

Oh and I have not mentioned books yet, I have been so busy lately but that is a true escaping being engulfed in a good book. If I had all the money in the world I would just jet off to some lightly populated island and swim with the fishes every time I feel stressed, but I don so I will have to rely on media, which seems to do the job.