The Great Escape

"To escape is nothing. Not to escape is nothing."
                                            -Louise Bogan.

I've got no clue who Louise Bogan is. And I highly doubt anyone else in my English 151 class does. But this quote was in one of our books, and preceeded a memior called On Being a Cripple about a woman who, at age 28, was told that she has Multiple Sclerosis. After a series of questions about the memior, along with another one written about the same topic, we were asked to interpret the quote as it applied to life in general.

I've already finished my questions, and have fought with Dell of Doom printer in this room (I fought a good fight, but got my butt kicked.). So I figured I'd blog my interpretation.

We will always wonder “What if…”

What is this boyfriend didn’t leave me? What if I’d gotten out of this relationship?

What if I got a new job? What if I stayed at my current position?

We always wonder if the grass really is greener. So we want to escape, and find it. We want to see for ourselves. For some of us, it’s nothing. It’s easy to walk away from our lives, and pick up a new one. It’s simple.

And once we get to the other side, we may realize that what we once thought would be green pastures and still waters is really a bunch of dead grass, and no water in sight. What we see after our escape, may be nothing at all.

For others, like me, it’s an obvious choice to keep out life as it is. While we don’t always have control over that, it’s nothing for us to look at our lives, and want to keep it the same.

Now, as my readers and my friends, I assume that y'all will know what I mean. This professor, however, will probably think I'm a nut job.

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