What is your escape?

[candle]

We have all done it at one point or another.  Sometimes you just need to get away from the hum-drum life you live.  What I want to know is what do you use to escape and why?

When I was a little kid, I was constantly being teased about my less than hygenic habits or my overly large glasses and my best friend had just moved away.  I can remember constantly coming home crying.

My mother was big on reading, si I started to find solace in books.  I started out with Dr. Suess and when I was older, I started reading K.A.Applegate and Brian Jaques(sp?).  In books I found amazing new worlds and imagined I was the hero and people loved me.  As I grew older, I read Tolkien, Asimov, and Piers Anthony.

I quickly fell deeply in love with the science-fiction and fantasy genres.  Even now, I will rarely read anything else willingly.  More recently, I have read Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series and Robert Jordan's epic, Wheel of Time.

Books have become my life.  I never did stop imagining myself as the hero and that inspired me to become a fanfic writer.  Eventualy, I hope to be a successful scifi/fantasy novelist, but it probably won't happen for a long time since I still have to write my books, first.

 

[Pisteleh]

We have all done it at one point or another.  Sometimes you just need to get away from the hum-drum life you live.  What I want to know is what do you use to escape and why?

Up until there I thought you were talking about drugs.

Anyway, I'd have to say that I enjoy music the most, though I tend to study my linguistics a lot too. I've always been interested in both since a very young age. I am a native Spanish speaker. Both my parents moved to the U.S. from Spain and I was taught Spanish and didn't learn a whole lot of English into I entered school, but I eventually found myself taking German. In high school there were more options for language classes and so I enrolled in Japanese and continued my German through self study.

As for music, I was taught piano by my father very young, and eventually moved other instruments such as guitar, drums, saxophone, and trombone. I used to be pretty shy with my music and that's why I used to do graphic work in the RM community, but I've found it very boring and about a year or two ago I started top open up with my music and have decided to start composing for the community instead. I use Reason most of the time for software synth unless I decide to record live instruments.

 

[Dopples]

My response to this is the going to be the same as every other 13-16 year old here. Video Games. Honestly, I'm pretty picky about what I like, but when I do have something I like, I get immersed into the story and gameplay of the game. I also like to write fiction, whether it be Sci-Fi, Gothic, or Fantasy. Either way, it's a way to let me escape from the boring parts of life (i.e High School)

 

[Anonymous]

drugs, music, and wikipedia.

 

[Pisteleh]

:cheers: to drugs, music, and wikipedia!

I can't edit wikipedia articles, they always get reverted back. They are perfectly valid edits, but the bots are really lame.

:fap: to domestic beer (U.S.), but :cheers: to internet.

 

[sixtyandaquarter]

Okay Dopples just scared me.
If I was 13 to 16 years old again my escape would be sex, not videogames.  Video games would be like when I'm bored or have a sprained knee or something.
Sure it's not my escape now but still.

Now a days it's drawing.  I just sit and draw and hours  go by before I realize.

 

[Cruelty]

psytrance and photoshop.

 

[Brosek]

Wanking it.


.. keep waiting for that just kidding.

 

[PeteD2S]

I am with Dopples :|, I am a gamer and what I do to kill boredom or pass some time is play games. I also do other stuff, but mostly gaming.

 

[Brosek]

Gaming.. can I change my escape? That ones less funny but more true.

 

[Rare]

Okay Dopples just scared me.
If I was 13 to 16 years old again my escape would be sex, not videogames.  Video games would be like when I'm bored or have a sprained knee or something.
Sure it's not my escape now but still.

Now a days it's drawing.  I just sit and draw and hours  go by before I realize.

You had sex at that age...err...
Sixty using sex as an escape can't be healthy for you or your partner :P

My escape is music and Coca-Cola.

And...writing.  It's one of my passions.

 

[Venetia]

Yeah when I was a teenager, it was all about the booze & secks.

Now that's I'm older and more boring, it's about the booze & secks with teenagers.

BAH DUM CHING!

I'll be here all night, ladies and gents. Don't forget to tip the waitress on the way out!

 

[khmp]

To escape school, life, bills, boredom, I come here to this forum and post. And after typing that I feel like such a loser in comparison to the rest of you with off-forum habits. :thumb:

 

[zenrdy]

Sleeping, Games, Sleeping....More Sleep, Go down to the small bar below my dorm and :cheers:

 

[Brosek]

To escape school, life, bills, boredom, I come here to this forum and post. And after typing that I feel like such a loser in comparison to the rest of you with off-forum habits. :thumb:

... yeah who would think people that actually post frequently are using this to kill time. o/`

 

[sixtyandaquarter]

Okay Dopples just scared me.
If I was 13 to 16 years old again my escape would be sex, not videogames.  Video games would be like when I'm bored or have a sprained knee or something.
Sure it's not my escape now but still.

Now a days it's drawing.  I just sit and draw and hours  go by before I realize.

You had sex at that age...err...
Sixty using sex as an escape can't be healthy for you or your partner :P

Yes I did actually.  May not be the most proud of it at times, but I was at least getting something when I was 10.  Bet that explains a lot :huh:

I never said it was healthy, but Jesus I was cutting school and bored and high off my ass.  Life sucked as a teenager, caught up in moody hormones and all that jazz, you gotta do something to keep warm when it's raining ice :\

 

[Venetia]

To escape school, life, bills, boredom, I come here to this forum and post. And after typing that I feel like such a loser in comparison to the rest of you with off-forum habits. :thumb:

Actually that's me too, khmp  :down:

When I was younger, it really was about secks & booze. Now that I'm settled down and have a job and have kicked the habits--this forum, video games, and pixelling is all that keeps me sane  :crazy:

 

[zenrdy]

When I was younger, it really was about secks & booze. Now that I'm settled down and have a job and have kicked the habits--this forum, video games, and pixelling is all that keeps me sane 

Venetia will you marry me?

Nah but, seriously That would be me but, replace Pixelling with Writing.

 

[Ratty524]

Video games, going on the internet and posting, spamming, etc.

Looking at porn and masturbation helps as well.  :wink:

 

[Grathea]

Me? Well, let's see. I find solace in reading. My family's always been big on reading. And I mean big on reading in the way that you end up setting up a library system for your friends, just to make it easier. Plus it makes books quicker and easier to find. Not kidding here.
I also relax via meditation - that's the main one nowadays. Quite useful for escaping stress. Not that I get much of that anyways, but whatever.