Running away...

Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica...photographer unknown. 

Sometimes we think that if we could 

"JUST GET AWAY" 

for a while 

that things would be either so much better when we returned than when we left 

OR 

we would have been refreshed enough to face whatever we wanted to run away from...

Simple Joys 

(from the Musical "Pippin")

Stephen Schwartz

Well, I'll sing you a story of a sorrowful lad

Had everything he wanted, didn't want what he had

He had wealth and pelf and fame and name and all of that noise

But he didn't have none of those simple joys. 

His life seemed purposeless and flat

Aren't you glad you don't feel like that?

So he ran from all the deeds he'd done,

he ran from things he'd just begun

He ran from himself, which was mighty far to run

Out into the country where he'd played as a boy

'Cause he knew he had to find him some simple joy

He wanted someplace warm and green

We all could use a change of scene

Like us all, the young man in this story thought that he could RUN AWAY from his problems, but hopefully, he learned, as we have, that we cannot run away from ourselves. We try! But we will never succeed in "leaving ourselves behind". We will take ourselves with us everywhere we go...so the moral of this story is: "Find yourself, heal from abuse and learn to dream again"...Learn to LIKE yourself, you will be spending the most time of your life with YOU.