What Your Choice of Escapism Says About You

What Your Choice of Escapism Says About You
A little bit of this; a little bit of that. Photograph taken with Fujifilm Instax Square SQ6. Credit: John Jajeh

In this fickle and unpredictable world, we all look for a way to escape. But what way do we choose and what do our choices say about us?


Video Games

  • You’re depressed, and you don’t know it.
  • Your wardrobe consists of many graphic t-shirts.
  • You wish you had better facial hair.
  • You either sleep fewer than 6 hours or more than 10 hours per night, but never in between.
  • You are either really in shape or really not.
  • You like subtitles.
  • You dig instrumental music.
  • You really like cars or motorcycles.
  • You love eating Subway.
  • You need a haircut.

Listening to Music

  • You could use a haircut but it sorta looks chic the way it is.
  • You have trouble going to sleep.
  • You have poor posture. (The better the music taste, the worse the posture.)
  • You enjoy eating spicy food.
  • You’re either a quiet extravert or a loud introvert.
  • You wear long sleeve t-shirts with short sleeve t-shirts over them.
  • You could be better about time management.
  • You only know one language, and you don’t care to learn any more.
  • You wish you had a better vocabulary though.
  • You’re a night owl.

Exercise

  • You’re an early bird.
  • At least 40% of your phone’s photo album are mirror selfies of your “#gainz.”
  • You know a guy who knows a guy.
  • You unironically wear your baseball cap backwards.
  • You either eat really well or you eat like shit.
  • You tried listening to an audiobook once but quickly reverted back to listening to podcasts.
  • You’re subscribed to a Patreon account.
  • You think you have better music taste than you do.
  • You always have your friend’s back.
  • You swear by a specific shoe brand.