Is Running Away Ever a Good Thing?

The art of escapism

Photo by Darren Lawrence on Unsplash

I never ran away from home as a kid. My childhood was far from perfect, but I wasn’t quite desperate enough to tie my things in a towel and head for the highway. I preferred the problems I had to whatever scariness lay beyond.

Then I grew up.

You could say I have spent the majority of my brief adulthood mid-stride. After…