Have you ever wanted to just pick everything up, get into a car and never come back?
I've been feeling this for years, but a lot more lately.
shareSo many times,lad.So many times
I always said "i had enough",but always something stops me.
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Many times, and I've done it a few times, but you always wind up either back where you started or dealing with the same issues in a new place
shareThat's been a concern. I'd like to move away into like a small shed in the middle of nowhere.
shareComplete isolation seems appealing, but it's not good for most people's brains. Believe me I wish I could escape the people who irk me the most, but a better solution is making serious strides toward adding positive relationships, then the negative stuff fades away. It takes a long time, and it takes serious effort, but you can't run from your own shadow. If the reasons to run are your personal relationships, understand that you have a say in how those relationships are or are not. If you run and don't address it, you form the same toxic relationships elsewhere. If all you ever see is birds and deer, your own negativity will fester and you'll never be confronted with things in yourself you may need to make changes with. We need people even if we hate people, and trying to acknowledge issues within yourself is necessary for personal growth
shareWise words, Pete, wise words.
shareDo it.
It might not be for you but you'll never know unless you go.
Every day.
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That's kind of how I feel, except I don't just want to get away for a change. I want to leave just to get away from society where I can be on my own with no distractions.
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Coincidentally, I just saw a great documentary about two people who did just that. It's called The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden (2013). https://moviechat.org/tt2960450/The-Galapagos-Affair-Satan-Came-to-Eden
It's been described as a true life Agatha Christie novel meets Darwin, and I'd say that's pretty accurate.
The story got me so hooked, it's 3 days later and I'm still researching it online.
But, I'll tell you, their getaway didn't turn out well.
Been there, done that, got the T Shirt.
If you want a piece of advice from an Old Skol guy, as the Nike commercial says: "Just do it!" Remember, when you get old like me, you will regret not so much what you DID, but rather what you did NOT do.
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I had an Aunt who used to say,
"I want to run so far away, that Jesus Christ wouldn't even be able to find me!" β
Lately, I have wanted to do that EVERY day!
I got out of a very bad marriage a decade ago. He was verbally and emotionally abusive. But I think I made some bad decisions, bought a house that was too big and expensive. Now I feel STUCK again.
My elderly mother is quite ill, so I have been living with her and running home to my house every day to take care of things and my cats. As long as I feed them and clean their litter boxes they are okay.
My mom has elderly dogs which need their pills and I have to take them to the vet. I give mom her pills every day and nag her to do her breathing treatments. She was just in the hospital for ten days with her second bout of pneumonia. Smoking for over sixty years tends to eff-up your lungs!
She keeps sneaking cigarettes and I want to scream! I will do whatever I have to take care of her, but YES, I'd love to buy a van, load up my animals and run away...
....Maybe after she passes on, which I think may be soon. Her lung capacity is poor and she will NOT give up those "mother effing" cigarettes! damn!!!
I wonder why I even care. My son and I are her beneficiaries. We get the house, her car, her retirement account and IRA. My two sisters are getting bupkis. One of them got her other house. My parents gave it to her. My other sister has been mad and feuding with mom for years. And my mom has said to me, "Don't give her anything!"
So I get most of what mom has. Why am I trying so hard to keep her alive?
I want to help her, but I also want to just abandon everything and run away.
Though not specifically, those are some of the reasons why I just want to get up and drive away. It's like you want to run away from your problems even though you know it won't fix the problems. I want complete isolation from everyone so I don't have to be around the people I don't like, and I won't have to worry about the ones that I do.
sharesounds like an estate battle in the making
shareOh boy, I can relate to this more than you could know. Went through 4 years of it. I'm still trying to recover from it, well over a year later.
I tried hard to keep my father alive too. Because it's what you do. But now, looking back, I wish I'd let go more and stressed out a hell of a lot less. I wish I'd insisted on more time for me. Maybe you'll be able to learn from me and do these things yourself. I hope so.
Do things for YOURSELF too. I know you think you don't have the time too, or the energy, but you do. Insist on it. Or better yet, just do it.
Hang in there. It does get better, I promise.
Pick everything up? No.
I have often wanted to drop everything, get in the car and let it take me where ever I end up.