An Escape from Reality

by Amy Chen

“We often let ourselves be carried away by events out of fear, out of hesitation and many other emotions, and in this forced oblivion the same actions are replicated with a predictable cadence, almost like a repetitive and reiterated programming. Thus, hope is expressed as a presumed certainty, as a truth addressed to a perimeter of presumed security without understanding that instead there is only the certainty that nothing is certain—including that sense of protection and safety in letting oneself be carried away.’