Escapism: mental diversion by means of entertainment or recreation, as an "escape" from the perceived unpleasant or banal aspects of daily life. My blog offers escapism from the rural, unsocialized life that I lead. Online I can interact and live vicariously through hundreds of people. However, I'm beginning to believe that for the people who visit my blog they're experiencing the opposite. City-dwellers seeking some picturesque visuals of nature, perhaps?
Someone recently remarked that their favorite pictures recently are the ones where I'm at a profile, or my back is to the camera and I'm looking out across the water (there aren't any good examples in this set, sadly). Those are my favorite pictures as well, they're a little anonymous and it depicts a person absorbed in the scene. Whenever I see an image of someone's back in some idyllic setting, it is possible for me to superimpose myself into that image. If it's anonymous, it could be anyone, even a snapshot from your own personal history or memory; similar to how reading a novel in first-person can make you feel what that character feels...
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