I HAVE LEARNED THAT WHEN YOU ARE LOOKING FOR AN ESCAPE ROUTE ( FROM LIFE AND ITS MANY PROBLEMS), YOU DON'T USUALLY LOOK AT WHERE OR WHAT

YOU ARE RUNNING TO, JUST WHAT YOU ARE
RUNNING FROM - IF WE HAD OUR EYES WIDE
OPEN TO SEE WHERE WE WERE GOING, WE
OFTEN WOULD NOT GO THERE.



There are many escape routes in this journey
through life, things that we turn to when the
going gets tough, things that we think will
take us away from the difficult, mundane lives
that we may be living. Things that we think
will give us more excitement, more money,
more power, more friends, more influence,
less worry, less boredom, fewer problems.



Some of the most popular escape routes
available today are television, computer
games, legal drugs, illegal drugs, drinking,
gambling, affairs - physical and emotional,
keeping busy.



An escape route is usually there to be able
to remove ourselves from danger, to be
able to have a way out when our lives are
threatened but these days we choose to try
and find a way out when we aren't in danger.

We have looked to have something fill a part
of us that we long to be content in.
We need to look at what we are choosing to
do, to change what needs changing without
taking a path that is causing damage to
ourselves or others in an attempt to deaden
our pain from the lives that we may have found
ourselves in.



By looking ahead to see where we could end
up ,can save us a lot of heartache.