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This is a follow-up to my previous article, Reality Escapes. Here is a list of one hundred things which might be classified as Reality Escapes. Such classification is arbitrary and subjective. The point of the list is for you to ask yourself which items you look down on. Every item on this list, has the potential to enhance your life, so I hope you’ll question any items you’ve “written off”. Remember, if your life had gone just a little differently, any one of these items could be the center of your existence. None are inherently more worthwhile than the others, or inherently more of a “waste of time”. All have the potential to broaden and enhance the lives of whoever accepts them. If you view something as worthless escapism, then how come? What led you to feel that way, and is it really true?

* Academia
* Alcohol
* Anime
* Barhopping
* Blogging
* Business
* Capitalism
* Card Games
* Cars
* Casual Sex
* Celebrity Gossip
* Chat Rooms
* Civil War Reenactment
* Comic Books
* Communism
* Computer Programming
* Crime
* Cults
* Dancing
* Dream Journaling
* Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, etc.
* Fan fiction
* Fantasy Novels
* Fashion
* Foreign Languages
* Fraternities/Sororities
* Gambling
* Gated Communities
* Goth Culture
* Guns
* Hacking
* Heavy Metal
* History
* Hitchhiking
* Homelessness By Choice
* Martial Arts
* Masturbation
* Mathematics
* Meditation
* The Military
* Mind-altering Substances
* Money
* Nightclubs
* The Occult
* Online Forums
* Paintball
* The Paparazzi
* Painting
* Parkour
* Personal Development/Self-Help
* Pickup Arts
* Poetry
* Poker
* Politics
* Rap Music
* Reality TV
* Religion
* Rock ‘n’ Roll
* Role-playing Games
* Science
* Science Fiction
* Scientology
* Self-Hypnosis
* Soap Operas
* Sports
* Star Wars/Star Trek
* Squatting
* Survivalism
* Tabloids
* Tolkien
* Tourism
* TV
* Urban Exploration
* Video Games
* Wall Street
* Weight Lifting
* Wrestling
* Xtreme Sports

Pick something from the list which you always looked down on, something you always thought of as a waste of time, and see whether you can’t learn something from it. You’ll be surprised how much you were missing

FURTHER READING

Reality Escapes
Reality Expansion
Models of Reality
The Law of Beliefs
Invitation to Hedonism