the lakes

"Sometimes the desire to escape the world is really a desire to experience it more deeply."

Sometimes the world can feel like too much. Not only because of its weight, but because of how much of life can seem to happen at the surface. The performance. The noise. The judgement. The pressure to make ourselves understandable to people who may not want to go where our thoughts are trying to take us. We long to step outside of that world. Not to escape life, but to experience more of it. To find somewhere sadness can be profound without needing to be fixed. Where beauty does not need an audience. Where we can sit with the depths of being alive without having to make them smaller for anyone else. There is something alluring about the land of the poets for that reason. A place where feeling deeply is not a burden. Where grief and beauty can exist beside one another. But even there, we do not necessarily want to be alone. Sometimes what we are searching for is not a world without other people, but a place beyond the noise where we can share the depth with someone who knows how to meet us there.