Day 15: Runaway? Where to?

May 29, 2022

Happy Sunday Read-Friends! Today's the last Sunday of the month and we are bound to start a new month. Time indeed flies swiftly and before we know it, we will be counting down to Christmas.

I'm on day fifteen of the thirty-day challenge. Today's prompt has me answering the question, 'If you could run away, where would you go?

First, of all, I don't feel like running away. I think I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be. Some people might want to go abroad and travel to places just for the sake of running away. But I don't think that works for me. If I'm on travel as my way of trying to run away, I think my thoughts would still be filled with how my family is. I don't think I can run away without my family with me.

But for the sake of the prompt, I would want to run away from people who have caused me much. People who disturbed my inner peace and people who don't love me enough and only take me for granted and stay with me because they benefit from me.

I would want to run away from my neighbours. They are not good for my mental health. Some of my Facebook friends are detrimental to my health too. Old acquaintances from college, high school and elementary. Sometimes, you just have to get rid of people and cut ties with your relatives without having to think of explaining. I have a lot of so-called friends that aren't helpful to my inner peace. There is something in them that I don't want to acquire. Their aura specifically.

I have this college friend who used to always message me asking me to make her a lesson plan. Until one day, she stopped. Then I knew she was hired in a Division where we both applied. To be honest, she doesn't deserve it as her points didn't make it to the quota. But here she is, proud that she is already in the system. She didn't even mind that some of us knew what she did. Ohh noo!

They make me bitter. This is why I feel the need to run away from them.

I want to run away and move to a different city where no one knows me and my family. A city wherein people only mind their own business. A city that is welcoming and that provides equal opportunities. I want to move to a new environment wherein there is healthy competition. I want to be in a city where I can peacefully practice my profession without begging for the position. Somewhere wherein no one would guilt trip me if ever I don't take the career path that I ought to take. Somewhere where no one cares about what I do. Somewhere where people leave me be.

That's an ideal place and I don't think it exists. I mean I can't afford to make it into my reality. Maybe not yet, for now. I hope someday, I will.