"Running from Home sucks!" I sigh to myself.
'Not that this can be called Running.' I add in my thoughts.
'I'm an Adult, I can technically do what I want and noone is gonna stop me.' I feel myself spiral into a negative spiral again.
'But being an Adult sucks! The responsibilities, the Bills, the grind for Money, the search for another Job, the lacking free time, and the constant studying in University with all thouse deadlines in between.' I lement in silence, looking at the world outside.
'I probably need some kind of Therapy. I know how depression looks like and I check all the boxes... What a bother.' I sigh again.
'As a child, you always want to be an adult. Not knowing that you live the life. You go to school to lern. To get a Good Job you enjoy in the future only to get ripped apart in the Job market...' I remember
'I escape to University, a place of learning, to better the odds. But I hate it. I can't bring myself to care... I miss being an airheaded Child.' I think again. A thought I had one too many times.
The next station comes up and around 90% of the people leave the train cart I am sitting in. 'Usually, I would leave with them, but not Today. I'm running away :)' The Thought brings me a small amount of amusement.
Now the train is now much emptier then before and I realise that i never knew what after this station comes. There is it. The small sense of Adventure I was looking for.
'To streets that where never walked apon! To city's I've never seen' I fake exclaim. And the Train continues.
And I imagine a version of myself that never thought of running away and got out like anyone else here. I even imaginen him walking there, in his depressed state - deep in thaughts of self misery.
'Yeah! That's not the me of today! Today I'm an adventure! A run away! An other person!'
The thought fulfills me.
My attention gose to the rest of the Train Cart. A pair of Grandmothers are sitting on the End of the isle knitting or what ever old ladies do. A woman with a scarf around her Head looks at her phone a Guy in a Suit sleeps with his face against a Window.
'Yeah! I'm another person today. Old me wouldn't have seen those. But I'm different! Who said running away sucked? Not me! Muhahaha...' I Lough out in my fantasy.
I keep myself entertained, while the train leaves the City. Taking me away from here.
-An Hour Later-
The Train comes to halt on a small beathen Train station and I leave the Wagon.
All that I am greated with is a Sign that is Vandalized to a point where the only word I can identify is [A- - -dorf] but I don't care. A Village or Town I never herad or known of is Perfect for my adventure.
'Starter Village, here I come!' Is all i say and get to exploreing.
The train station is Old! Perhaps older then my mother but despite its trashy and vandalized facade it has it own little charms. The dead and opage Windows, the Ivy the cracks in the Wall don't take away from it cosey architecture. Made from another era.
So I start to look around and soon find the corners that are full of Trash! Usually i would let them be but I'm not the usual me.
So i take from my Bag a pair of Gardeners Gloves and a Trashbag and Start to Gather. Today is a Day of Adventure and this is my first Quest! Isn't this the a usual starter Quest? Gather Trash? Most definitely!
So i begin to Gather and the Trash and even begin to hum a small tune that i most definitely not the Piano man.
After a good Quater of an hour my First Quest is done! Two Bags full of Plasitc, Glass and other trash is Gatherd. The Platform is freed from the Trash and I look for the place where i could put the Bags, and soon find a public Trashcan, and put my Bags beside it.
'First Quest! Da~ Da~ Done~' I say as I free my Hands from the Gloves and put them into a prepared siplock back. To protect the rest of the Equipment from the Smell!
And after a small wash in the Restroom I found on my first Quest and I start to explore the Town. 'No! My Starting Village!' I correct myself mentally.
- Same day in the Afternoon -
Turns out I'm somewhere in nowhere. Sure, people are here. But it's definitely the opposite of Busy.
Many houses look empty and even the small church looks like, it had seen better days. Despite that- I've seen the Magic the town hides. Nearly no Cars drive around. Every house has a Garden and even the Usual Discouter down the street is relaxed and its parking lot is nearly empty.
I too had done two Quest again. I freed a small corner of nature from weed that was killing the flowers and i Freed a Drain from dead leaves. Not that anyone saw me do it or thanked me!
'I'm not doing it for recognition but for self satisfaction!' I reminded myself and continued my Adventure!
Or better- Would have because a gnawing noise of a Snarling bear made itself known to me. And I realised that i was hungry.
'Oh... I have nothing prepared. I better find a Café or restaurant... for now before I think about another Adventure' I realised a bit embarrassed, by how deep i got into role-playing and denying reality.
To my luck i found a small establishment in a small ally between houses. A dainty place that wouldn't look out of place in a fantasy Village.
'This is the place I've been looking for!' i realised in delight.