421.......the day after

Whats better escaping or faith?......maybe i need to be alil bit more specific.

Ok

Lets say you're in a room filling up with poisonous gas. The gas would take at least a day for it to be effective. There is a sign in the room that tells you the gas will stop eventually but you will have to pull a lever at a certain unknown time to clear the air until then you cant leave.  What would do? Would you try to escape? Or would you put your trust in the sign and wait for the right time to pull the lever?

Sloppy scenario aside,alot of us go through this in life. We would be placed in a situation where its no way out and we would just need to be patient and have faith but faith is not really something that can be easily refilled. More about that later.

Another scenario you are working out everyday lifting weights. You start with 15lbs until they become light. The next day you move to 20lbs until they become light and so on. What if you didnt get that day of rest. What if as soon as you become used to the 20lb weight your trainer dont let you leave and you have to immediately jump to 25lbs. You gonna feel the burn of the 20lb work out and the new burn and strain of the 25lb work out.

Thats a better (in my opinion) way to describe life. Random occurrence that just make you feel like your faith in a better life is being tested.

                                                               .........it is
And it needs to be the further you get in life the more troubles you are going to go through. How the saying goes 'mo money mo problems'? but for the poor its more same money mo problems. This where both escapism and faith come in at.

Escapism is the reason why  alot of people use tree(weed , loud,marijuana, sticky icky,  that yea doe, collard greens , antidote). When you high you dont think about your debt or crippling depression. You mind is free to think about what you want and look at it from a different point of view and sometimes not think about it at all. Beside god's grass, its alot of things people use to escape. It could be video games, movies, tv shows, music and of course social media. These escapes help our mind relax so we wont be overwhelmed by our struggle and strain. However, everything works in moderation and sometimes we get consumed by the escape we never want to go back n solve the problem.


Back in the first scenario, i wonder how many would try to find a way out instead of waiting to just use the lever? This is where escapism fails and faith steps in. See we escape for a momentary rest a break from the workload we have to go through in life. Like the day of rest i said in the second scenario (see they all make sense it wasnt just random hypothetical questions) but the things is its for a short term. Faith on the other hand is very much long term.


Faith in ...anything can actually push and motivate you to keep going. Faith in a dream , a deity, a love one hell even faith in your self works. It makes you believe that the stuggle you are going through will not be in vain. You can see it in a lot of movies and tv shows. The character would be down on their luck until someone gives that character something to believe in (faith) and the character becomes extreamly motivated for their goal. The only drawback with faith is keeping it strong. We live in a world of stimulus and distractions so finding escapes is easy but the world can be very negative and if we dont see a silver lining faith will dwindle. once its low we would be left with our problems and escapes from said problems and more problems will be added on making us eacape more. The cycle will continue.

You know why people fail at working out. They focus too much on the now rather than the future. They feel like its not working and quit instead of having faith that it is working its just gonna take sometime. Anything we do its gonna take time and work to achieve the higher quality of life you want the more work and time it takes to get it. Its the law of equivalent exchange.

Anyway its escapes are good they like candy and junk food real good for the time being. Just remember sometimes to get some healty food in you. Be around people who will give you faith to keep going. Because anyone can make you forget your problem its another thing to have people make you remember your dream.

But thats just my interpretation of the situation

Now im going to continue smoking n meditating.