How do you escape?

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I had nowhere to go but up when I got sick at seventeen. I was a druggie and unschooled, undisciplined in anything except a couple of restaurant dishwasher jobs I’d had.

I started to read right before the onset of illness. I thought it would make me a better songwriter because I was going to be the next big thing though I only knew a couple of chords. My peers had shot ahead of me long before that.

I spent the following years learning to read a little each day. I never learned how to get lost in a book. I had lost the ability to get absorbed in TV. I had to give up pot. I hate it when people envy me and my situation or talent. They don’t know how lucky they’ve been. Finally 35 years later I find an escape in my guitar and mandolin. Reading is for the birds.

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You’re resilience and determination speak volumes. I’m glad you can escape into guitar and mandolin, it’s a great place to be

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I recommend tying the blankets into a rope and using it to escape out the window.

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My way to escape is to play pc games

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my escape is my music. that and art and architecture books.

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Escaping is tearing apart clothes and putting them back together in new ways. It’s taking old, faded things and making them beautiful. Music and art is a gift, it feels like something you were born to do

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Internet distracts me

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