Just Get Away for a Little While?

The phrase of commercially influenced persons who begin to feel oppressed by their situation, "I need to get away from it all" causes warning signs to spring into the minds of psychiatrists and dollar signs to dance in the eyes of travel agents. Born of a generation constantly in motion and convinced of the possibility of buying one's happiness, escaping 'reality' seems to be the primary motivation in those actions of a person that deviate from the routine. This "need to get away" is also reminiscent of repression. Obviously being a modern trend, these tendencies and desires among humans bring fear to the heart of the less than casual. Will men eventually get to the point where nothing is faced up to, responsibility is taken for no situation, and diversion, vacation, and fiction are the primary pursuits of mankind? I, for one, would derive no pleasure from "having fun all the time." Yet how many do you know who would revel in a world in which the papers never had to be written, books never had to be read, alarms never had to be set for 8am, there was no drinking age, no driving age, plane tickets were free, and Margaritaville was an everyday place? Procrastination is like masturbation. In the end, you are only screwing yourself. Yeah, but its fun while it lasts. And what if it lasts forever?