Everyone feels like running away from problems, people, and their life when it’s gotten to be too much tohandle. We feel like running away from problemsbecause stress and anxiety have overwhelmed us. What’shappening is that we’ve simply become too afraid todeal with problems at all. It’s important to note here thatrunning away doesn’t necessarily mean getting on a bus, plane, or in our car and heading out of town and notlooking back.

It may just mean running, leaving, or ignoring a problematic situation instead of dealing with whateverthe problem or our actual fear is.

 When we don’t see results, after a little effort, we tendto bury the problem hoping that we would be able to getaway from it when we don’t pay it any attention, or blame circumstances, or people about it. So why doesrunning away from our problems seem to be an easiersolution?

Running away from the problems gives you a temporarysense of comfort — so that the monster can’t see youany longer and you feel like you have just escaped froma dangerous situation you could have run into,you put your blame on something else or someone else, and a general sense of optimism that things will get better isthere with you. But we all know deep down in our ownhearts and minds, that really, we can’t run away fromanything. Every problem we create will follow us, no matter where we go. And, we will keep repeating the same mistake again and again until we strongly  decide to fix it.

I think that getting  an adult means to have the ability offace the consequences of our choices even if they are the worst ever made. The sooner,the better!!  This is the case, an excellent time to start. When we learn to deal with problems as they arise, responsibly, and as quicklyas we can, we’ll keep them from getting out of hand and we won’t get to the point that we will feel like runningaway.