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Healthy Escapes

Life can be hard and our daily routines can be monotonous. Do your escapes help or harm you?

By Gillian Bethel

Minimalist Krissy Branson used to live an escapist life: “I was never truly present.... I was looking for ways to zone out, ways to distract myself—as opposed to waking up and living the life in front of me.” Some of the ways she zoned out were scrolling for hours on her phone, binge-watching TV series, and shopping with no plan. (Others do the same with gaming, movies, drugs, alcohol, and porn.) Outwardly, she was just going through the motions of living: “I worked, paid the bills, went to bed, and woke up to do it all over again.”1

Branson finally decided to take charge of her life. She says that she stopped mindlessly consuming and stopped living on autopilot.

She started setting priorities—making time for what really mattered to her. She started planning for the future and taking steps to achieve her plans. And she began focusing on

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References

  1. Krissy Branson, “How I Stopped Escaping and Started Living,” No Sidebar, nosidebar.com.

  2. “Why do people help others?,” Quora, quora.com.

  3. Personal communications from Joanne.

About the author

Gillian Bethel is the associate editor of Last Generation magazine.

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