Saturday, April 28, 2018

Running Away From Your Problems

Have you ever run away from your problems?

Most people have at some point. (Except Harry Potter. Harry Potter seldom runs from his problems. Harry Potter runs towards his problems. The whole series hinges on Harry being a reckless, restless maniac with zero self-preservation skillz.)

Guess what characters do run away from their problems?

Star Butterfly and Marco Diaz do. Constantly.

Allow me to demonstrate. Here we have Marco slamming his bedroom door to escape his problems (coughStarcough)...


...Star leaving a concert early to escape her problems...


...Marco climbing out a window to escape his problems (again, the problem he's escaping is Star)...


...Star trespassing into a city aqueduct to escape her problems... 


...Marco hiding under his suit jacket to escape Star his problems...


...Star jumping out a window and flying away on a magical cloud to escape her problems...


...twice...


...Marco walking slowly backwards...


...running across a beach...


...and sharing his hoodie with this girl he barely knows, all so he can escape his problems.


(I'll give you one guess as to what problems that might be.)

Don't get me wrong; Star vs the Forces of Evil is a great series. But everybody in it does run away from their problems on the regular.

I'm more like Harry, I guess. I like to walk up to my problems and punch them in the face! Metaphorically! Sometimes literally! But one time I did leave town unexpectedly to get away from some stuff.

What problems have/are you running away from? How drastic is your particular form of running away? (These are rhetorical self-help questions. You don't have to respond. Although I'd be curious to hear if you did.)

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