Why am I on the run?

I’m on the run because I want to get away. Actively distancing myself from a culture I don’t like being part of, a culture where I am required to constantly prove myself. I don’t want to prove anything. I want to just be! I want to stare at sunsets on beaches, I want to watch birds circle mountain tops, I want to spend hours watching the rain pour down and transform my surroundings. I want to surround myself with experiences that bring me peace of mind.

And till I find a way of not being a part of everything, even though I am part of it, I won’t find my peace of mind, and I am going to run to a place where I know I will find it. And we all already know of these places, they’re the ones you sigh at when you see them in a movie, when you come across them in a photograph or a painting, when you live it in a dream. They’re good for your soul. I sure know they’re good for mine!

I am not running away from life, but am running to a better one rich with experience. To put it more simply, I am going to use a line from Bob Marley’s ‘Iron Lion Zion’.

I have to run like a fugitive, to save the life that I live.

In perpetual search of clarity.