Shockingly, I have developed an interest in escapism that I had not cultivated since childhood. A child's escapism is - if we push the fact of the resourcefulness and creativity of children aside - partly attributable to the fact that it does not have mastery over itself in a way that the fully self-conscious adult does.
Pascal wrote that if we spent as much of our lives dreaming as we do living in the physical world, then the dream-world would be as important and as real as the actual world. For my part, I am still struggling with the work-life balance - 8 hours work + 2.5 hours commute; 6.5 free time; 7 hours sleep. My free time is only 61.9% as real as my 'dead' time, as the Situationists put it.
'Life is a dream a little less inconstant'.
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