Again, not sure if this is the right place for it. If this is the wrong forum for it, please feel free to move it to the right place. Just felt since we Pisces were known to want to excape reality, that it was fitting.

Okay earlier I was thinking again...oh no, not I!!! lol ;)

Why do we feel the need to excape reality?  
Why do we feel it stronger certain times in our lives than others?  

This past year I have struggled with this myself.  Happy with my home life, my family, and friends...but still in my heart I wished to excape!  Anywhere but here, but where?  I tried new things, met new people, visited other places close to home. But I was still feeling the need to excape my reality.  Depressed, disheartened. Why?  Torn since inside I felt happy, I had what I wished for...or did I?  Not too long ago I seen my spirit's desire.  Although I had all that I wished, I still longed to do something just for me.  The more that I sacrificed for my family the more I became the one wishing to excape.  Tormented since this is not how mommies feel.  I loved my babies!!!  They were my life, so much I forgot mine. Ahhh, yes I forgot long before my partner, long before my children...I existed. Seperate from this unit.

I may get alot of heat for sharing this. Since society shuns us for mentioning these unthinkable truths.  This did not make me  a bad person for feeling what I felt.  For years I did without thought without questioning. All for them, placing them above my own needs and desires.  But deep inside I was crying out.  Something didn't feel right.  The balance was off.  There was a reason I felt the need to excape reality.  And this is what I found.

I needed to re-examine my life.  Simple as that.  A friend shared something with me that finally put words to what I had figured out.  By that point I had already re-examined and started to do the changing, but I wasn't aware of the connection of the two.  

Do others feel the connection between the two?

Safe Journey

I think you answered your own question.  Too often and erroneously, we think that self-sacrifice is noble.  It is not, except in certain extreme situations.  Mostly this kind of behavior is just martyrdom.  As a daily practice it is soul deadening.  All this does is teach others that we can be used and abused, and teaches our families that they don't have to think about others' needs, so some become martyrs also and others become those who only take and take and take.  Even Christ, or any other religious figure, took care of themselves first!  They ate, they prayed, they took care of their own needs, FIRST.  Christ said, "love others are you love YOURSELF."  In other words, take care of your own needs FIRST, so you have the strength and wisdom to help others.  

Then maybe there isn't the desire to escape, because your immediate life is more pleasurable and fulfilling.

Dear Youdah,

In this I agree.  Something too often forgotten...well I do anyways!   It wasn't so much of being unhappy as it was feeling unfilled, incomplete, longing, etc.  Spirit was a bit wrestless.  Thank you for sharing your thoughts reguarding this matter.

Safe Journey

I'm doing the same - escaping the reality. That's why i'm happy. For exaple i won't see horror films, i wont watch the part of knews about murders and similar things. Thats why i still feel like little girl not like a woman. But I'm happy that my world is  "blind". The fishes are too sensitive tod deal with the real world

Emelita,

I'm glad you are happy.    So many are depressed little fishes.  Finding this more common in the male Pisces. Have you noticed that too?  Wonder if it is because since they are really emotional, but since the male is not suppose to show emotion, there is that internal conflict.  Men don't cry sort of thing happening.   Dunno.  I find this all fasinating.  

However I do enjoy psychological horror although I am a sensitive person.  Mainly because I wish to understand the complex mind and why certain humans will harm eachother.  Although many fish are sensitive, there are those who do deal with the real world.  This doesn't mean that I do not feel out of place or out of time. I am a little girl in many ways but then there is that tigress in me that wishes to prowl and pounce on things.  So I feel like a woman in many ways. Although I detest those flowery girly stuff like dresses.  YUCK! I hate dresses.  

Sorry about the long rant.  I do love to hear how other Pisces women feel.  Thank you so much for your replie it really made my day.  Knowing that there are others out there like me.   May you forever remain a child at heart.

Safe Journey