Speaking of the Circus..well, sort of

[bardiphouka]

It used to be that one wanted to run away from home TO something. To join the circus, to Boston to be a folk singer or San Francisco to be a Hippy or to Seattle to be angsty or Vancouver to be a star. But it seems like the majority of people today are literally running AWAY rather than to.

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[springheel-jack.livejournal.com]

nothing left to run to

[bardiphouka.livejournal.com]

Actually sometimes there is, which is interesting. The thing I have discovered (and yes...I did run away and join the circus once) is that what people do not realise is that often we have to create the thing we are running to.

[wolfette]

It's always really been "I'm going to run away to join the circus".

"I'm going to run away to London and become famous".

It's always been "running away to"

Running is running and it always involves running away from something - even if sometimes the runner actually manages to "go to" somewhere and do or become something, it's incidental because they take with them what they're trying to leave behind - and eventually it catches up with them.

[bardiphouka.livejournal.com]

but a lot of the transients and runaways I have talked to these days are just running away..from abuse from poverty,et cetera. They do not care where they go..just that they be somewhere else.