Ever wanted to just get on a bus, train, or plane and just run away from everything?

Absolutely.

I always get the urge, when things aren’t going right.

I think, this is my life, one life to live, why wait in the bullshit ?

There are some things you just can’t run away from, especially emotional pain.

You have to confront them, but I have gotten the feeling many times.

of course I have! but no matter where I go, I’m still there!

You can run, but you can’t hide.

Sometimes change can be a very good thing.

Maybe starting new somewhere can be very good for you, a fresh start so to speak.

But if you’re dealing with heavy things, they don’t go away over night.

You can move somewhere new, but the feeling of hurt will still come back if you haven’t dealt with them.

Just speaking from personal experience.

You need stabilty.

Shit seems hard now, but if you got a bus ticket to somewhere new, would you have enough money to live off of ?? Would you have a job wherever you’re going ?

Never. I have a lot in my life to be thankful for. I wouldn’t give it up.

Definitely but if you’re running from something that something will follow you. You have to deal with those things and then move on.

@free_fallin – I really agree

I’m guessing the 88 in your screenname is your birth year. If that’s the case, and you don’t have any kids to look after, do it. Just make sure you’ve got someone to call if things get fucked up.

A change in environment can completely change a person. Not sure where the “you can’t run from your problems” rule comes from. If you’ve got nothing real tying you down, running is the solution to the problems, not just a way to postpone dealing with them. It’s a slower fall, sinking in quicksand, but if you jump off a cliff at least you might survive. Might even find a way to fly before you hit the ground. excuse my metabation. . .

I’m completely biased, because I’m about to take a semi-reckless leap myself and this is the attitude I have to have.

I strongly recommend that you plan out whatever you do thoroughly. Family and friends provide you with a safety net, one that isn’t going to follow you as you go hither and yon. Should you pack up and leave, you’ll have to deal with that.

Perhaps what you need is a vacation, of sorts.

Sometimes I feel like this too, a lot actually. But running away from my problems would not be the responsible thing to do, now would it? To help me feel better, I focus on all of the things I am am grateful for. This could be as general as family and friends or as specific as each blade of grass or the air I breathe. This keeps me going and I am much happier if I have this positive attitude.

I have sat in the parking lot of my former place of employment, staring at I-90 straight ahead, and wondered how far I could get before I was found out. But now, since I do not have that job, I feel better. In the immortal words of of John and Paul (The apostles? No the Beatles!) “I’ve got to admit it’s getting better(Better)
A little better all the time (It can’t get no worse).”

I only feel that every day – and twice on Thursdays- but I don’t think you’re looking for a way to get past the feeling. You are not alone.
Validation.
I want out of here too… let me know if you find the way.

Right now you’re thinking about what you do NOT want. What is it you WANT? You may not have to run off to get it.

No, never thought of it but now that you bring it up…...

Of course, there is only one reason why I don’t and if I could take that one thing with me then, come payday next week, I’d be on the next plane to America.

@Scarlett raises a very good point. Not everyone, but many people I know have mentioned the idea of “getting up and going”, as if it will solve all of their problems. Contrary to that belief, I see this as a way of pressing the “pause” button on things and as soon as you resume and reality catches up with you, your problems are going to be staring right back at you, just the way you left them… the feeling that arises out of that must be worse.

I have a friend (who has a lot of problems) who met some very wealthy guy across the states and decided to just run away with him for a few weeks and practically be another person. Went to exotic areas of the world and stayed at this dude’s very fancy houses. In the end, reality came knocking and my friend is right back in the situation he was in when he started.

I’m more of a permanent-fix type of person.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ok; but did he enjoy himself? Glad he went?