Looking for a Little Escape

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I’m on a train and I’d like to get off. So far, 2011 has been full of life disrupting bumps in the track. Every time I seem to bounce back from the latest round of bumps, I encounter another.

This has left me feeling a little lost and a lot not like myself. I’m a positive, half-glass full kinda girl; it’s just my nature. Lately, however, I feel sad, weepy and sometimes I don’t recognize just who it is staring back at me in the mirror. I’m starting to wonder if things will ever be good again. See that statement? The one right there? That’s just not me.

Granted, life has hurled some pretty major stuff at me lately, between friends and family diagnosed and/or suffering from serious ailments, expensive car issues and drama at the office I feel like every which way I turn, there’s no escape.

It seems the only way I have been able to find that little slice of peace lately, is by turning to the world of the written word, diving in, not looking back.

I conquered the final book in the Fever Series, Shadowfever, in four days, all while working full time. I literally felt like I was on a ride, my jaw dropping open at every turn. If you haven’t read the Fever Series by Karen M. Moning, I suggest you pick it up, STAT.

I re-read Lover Unbound in preparation for a character review of Vishous of the Black Dagger Brotherhood in two quick days. Could I love a brother more? No, I don’t think so. His strength of character bleeds off the page a little more every time I read the book. Black Dagger Brotherhood by J.R. Ward: Do it.

I also read an old favorite in the Princess Bride (it was unearthed in my family home over Christmas) and wished for a moment I could escape to the world of Buttercup and her Wesley, with their twisted, tangly dialect and fantastical adventures thwarting death and causing mayhem and, of course, falling in love.

I know that I might never be able to escape to the worlds I find in the books I read and that, sometimes, escape is not the best when your facing the toughest of life’s obstacles.

So I pose a few questions…

What do you do to get through tough times? How do you find the way to take that next step?
What makes you happy when it seems like happiness is an impossible feat.

Yes, I’m pleading, but that’s because I know that there is a wealth of information in each of you.

Just sayin’.