Wednesday, October 13, 2021

Drapetomania

 Drapetomania(n)- an overwhelming urge to run away.

Everyone has a chapter they won’t or can’t read out loud. Running away could mean many things. Whether it's to escape the marcid reality they've been put in or, for even a moment, have a place where they can scream loud enough that their tears fall down their face in relief. Some people run away to find their “Raison D’etre” and I envy them, for someone who hates existing finding a reason too is orphic. Running away serves as a nepenthe to many, including myself. To be freed from the monachopsis feelings that enslaves me and entices my dysania, to be in such a state of bliss..would be fogein to me. An escapist that feels so euphoric by kenopsia that it leaves them careless. Drapetomania- derived in the slave days and was used to describe the "disease" in which the symptoms were "a slave that was addicted to attempting escape or escaping slavery”.


The Final Stretch and the Quiet Between

 I know it’s been a while—way too long—and for that, I owe you an apology. Things have been chaotic lately. Between finishing up my combined...