Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't ever feel the need to escape.
I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously.
The fact is that you don't want to be away forever, but you want to lead a normal life.
Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender - not a surrender to the other person so much as to our feeling for the other person. What is the obstacle? The possibility of loss.
I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously. I treasure it in the sense that I believe it's a path of great courage. It can also be the path of the foolhardy and the compulsive.
I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right.
You know what's funny? I don't ever feel the need to escape. I have a strong marriage. I like my life. You hear about these guys having midlife crises - I don't see that happening to me.
I don't like the dislocation of being away for months at a time. It's not conducive to having a life.
We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.
I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.