Exit

Have you ever felt pain so excruciating that all you wanted to do was to crumple on the ground and succumb to it? How about all those little voices in your head, guilting you, doubting you? Be it a little baby or an elderly man, everyone has something that they want to escape from, something that desperately makes them search for an exit.

People seek an exit because they do not want to feel pain, they do not want to feel guilt. They rarely have the courage to face the devil in the face, and decide to make a run for it instead, but how do people seek an escape? Some decide to seek enlightenment and travel round the globe just to attain inner peace, to get away from the many tendrils of stress that dragged them into near depression in the past. Some choose to isolate themselves from the world, thinking that by doing so, nothing can ever hurt them again and is thus their ideal exit. While others turn to close friends and loved ones for guidance and support. However, there are people who do not seek an escape as they believe they deserve the pain for one reason or another and decide to stay within pain, grief and sadness because of their morbid, sadistic and possibly cynical thinking.

No one ever knows what to expect once they step through the exit doors but everyone expects a change for the better. Some people may even take death as a way out of the problems in the world, maybe some even believe they would then be in a world filled with sylph-like ladies where there would be eternal bliss awaiting them, which makes death a very obvious choice as an exit. 

What is then considered an escape, an exit? It would be appropriately suggested that an exit from all human-related problems is the same as that of an one-way, where all negativity is left behind, never to return. Then again, what makes us so sure that after those exit doors lie a happy ending? 

This leads me to believe that our exit, from anything we want to get away from, is ourselves. We are our very own escape, our very own saviour. We decide whether we make life and living a heaven, for ourselves and others, or make it a living hell. Something that most people would have heard before would be " it's all in the mind". Each and everyone is responsible for what they are and who they are. If they seek an exit, all they have to do is switch their mindset. 

It's quite ironic how everyone seeks happiness and bliss, but continuously carp about the very own problems they impose on themselves. I guess it all boils down to whether we think it's worth it to save ourselves. Worth it to find this escape -this exit. 

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Written by: Tiffany Choo <3