Everyone of us got some escape plan for us. Not like escaping from life, I'm talking about the escape from unplesant moment or bad situations, like how do we handle ourselves when things go beyond our control. Talking about the pause or break we take from a situation that doesn't go as we wanted, and now giving hard times. We all got a excape plan for such moments, right? Some comes natuarally, and some come in disguise to help us to tackle the situation.
I have seen many people coming up with various escape plans. Like, some want to have a walk in the open air, some prefer to sit on the riverbank, perhaps, some prefer to hang out with friends, some stay within four walls in their cocoons, some prefer movies/TV shows, and whatnot. It varies from person to person. These are what I got to see in my surrounding people; there could be more I forgot.
Even it changes with time as well, at least for me, maybe that too, depending on the time, place, and situation. When I was in my hometown, I used to have a few escape plans. Here in the city of robots (that's what Dhaka is to me), I have different escape plans, and all of these are based on the situations and the things I want to escape for that moment.
Like in the past, around 2020/2021 years, life used to be completely different, not hit by the realities of life. Back then, if things weren't in favor and I needed a break, I would go to the riverbank and sit there for hours, a big tree to sit beneath, no crowd of people, rather boats passing by, mostly owned by fishermen, and I would see their struggle to catch fish. It takes a long time to catch a handful of fish in those portions, and very easily we get to buy them in the market. At night, as I can't go out, I would sit for a movie, to cheer me up, I would pick the genre depending on the situation. There were friends as well, just one call away to start the bike and ride far from the city noise in between the village roads and find a distant tea stall where we would start our chit-chats over a cup of tea. That's how it used to be, my escape, I miss them pretty badly now.
What about now? To be honest, no escape outside my room as it got crowded all around. Yeah, sometimes I try to walk in the crowd and get mixed in between, it feels strange to see how people are always in a rush, no one to bother for the other, everyone has their own headaches to run after. Nope, now I can't watch movies or TV series just to escape a situation, as those feel like fueling the reasons, as at this stage of life, facing the realities, spending times something other than productive stuff feels like wasting time. I do sit before the PC or laptop, stare at the screen, hands on the keyboard, fingers moving just to find what's on the priority list of productive stuff, and go for them. Yeah, that's what the escape plan is like because I know only these can take me forward in the ladder of life and can give me freedom from the situations that give me hard times.
Life isn't the same as before; things have completely changed, so have the escape plans. Sometimes I just rant about the fact of how fast we have grown up, not by age but by the realities of life. I wish I could have taken things a little bit slower.
