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Escapism is an addiction

The past few weeks, months, i feel as if I'm falling deeper into a daily, dreamlike daze that I find it harder and harder to get out of. With the world situation the way it is, as well as feeling more and more left behind, I feel my mind retreating into itself further and further. I want to act on these feelings by causing some trouble for the powers that be , but at the same time, I've come to a point where I've got things to protect and a standard of living to keep.

That sounds so privileged, I know. I'm both proud and disappointed in myself. For the sake of keeping a harmonious relationship at home, I need to distance myself from radical circles for the mean time, I'm afraid.

(part of me is certain I'll come to regret that or at least look back at the above paragraph in disappointment in the future.)

My mind feels empty a lot of the time, in the bad kind of empty. I feel cottonballs filling up my head most of the day. I honestly don't like that sensation, so I've decided to take up reading fiction again. Something not too heavy but also worth the time spent reading it.

So I've started reading light novels. I've already been reading manga on a regular basis, and since a lot of them are adaptations of light novels, I say why not. Since starting sometime last month, I've read the following: