Years ago, I had a job that I didn't like where I had to commute an hour. During those long commutes, I had dreamed of leaving the small area I grew up in and moving somewhere life was far more interesting.
Years of drudgery went by, and I finally got my chance and took a job in Florida. To move, I packed up a U-haul and headed south from Pennsylvania in the middle of a cold January. It was what I had wished for. As I drove, the temperature increased with each state as I removed one layer after another.
After living there a while, I was having lunch with a friend with a son who had just graduated from high school. During the conversation, the son grumbled, "I have to get out of this area."
It struck me. How could he want to escape from the area I had escaped to? That's when I realized when we seek to escape from our external world, more often, it's the internal one we're running from.
This moment inspired the story about a Day In a A Lifeform.
