Escapism is the practice of immersing into a made up fantasy world to “escape” reality.
For some individuals escapism can take over someone’s life, so much so that they want to spent all their time in it despite knowing it’s a fake world they are living in.
Personally I’ve realized how severely i’m affected by escapism after brainstorming and realizing a behavior of mine.
As usual on a Friday night, I was playing Minecraft. After setting up my base, I started to decorate it with the nicest materials I could find, I thought really hard about what to improve and how to structure everything so it looks great.
The irony here is that i haven’t cleaned my room for several weeks, to the point where there’s a mountain of trash right next to my bed.
I’m spending hours decorating a fake home for a fake character in a fake world, yet the real me is drowning in plastic packaging and smelly laundry.
Another example is games like gta,Arc Raiders, WWM etc. basically games where you can customize your own characters.
I always make sure that my character is the best looking with the nicest clothes, I even have different fits for them to wear so it won’t get boring.
However I don’t take care of myself IRL at all, I’m wearing the same 3 fits every week for years now and I could buy new clothes but I don’t feel the need to do so and always decide to spend my money on food and games.
I look and smell like a hobo and I don’t care because all I think about all day is my video games, I literally have no life outside of it.
I would probably get a mental breakdown if someone came and took all my electronics because without them I am nothing, I am just an empty shell.
For some individuals escapism can take over someone’s life, so much so that they want to spent all their time in it despite knowing it’s a fake world they are living in.
Personally I’ve realized how severely i’m affected by escapism after brainstorming and realizing a behavior of mine.
As usual on a Friday night, I was playing Minecraft. After setting up my base, I started to decorate it with the nicest materials I could find, I thought really hard about what to improve and how to structure everything so it looks great.
The irony here is that i haven’t cleaned my room for several weeks, to the point where there’s a mountain of trash right next to my bed.
I’m spending hours decorating a fake home for a fake character in a fake world, yet the real me is drowning in plastic packaging and smelly laundry.
Another example is games like gta,Arc Raiders, WWM etc. basically games where you can customize your own characters.
I always make sure that my character is the best looking with the nicest clothes, I even have different fits for them to wear so it won’t get boring.
However I don’t take care of myself IRL at all, I’m wearing the same 3 fits every week for years now and I could buy new clothes but I don’t feel the need to do so and always decide to spend my money on food and games.
I look and smell like a hobo and I don’t care because all I think about all day is my video games, I literally have no life outside of it.
I would probably get a mental breakdown if someone came and took all my electronics because without them I am nothing, I am just an empty shell.
