Rebecca Avakian

It is important to find the moments in your life you can truly relax and forget about daily stresses. For myself I find it easiest to lose myself in many activities I love, and I will explain them briefly.

What better way to unwind than the twists and turns music can take, no matter the genre. I spend my nights drifting off to pleasant sounds, but that’s not all this activity amounts to. During these moments I envision different stories and worlds, that often contribute to the various surreal dreams I have. It is a great conversation starter to explain the wacky and unimaginable, everyone should try listening to music and thinking up creative plots. Before I know it I’ve drifted off to sleep, or spent an hour daydreaming.

Another activity I am able to lose myself in would be video games. There are many different genres as there is in literature. My favorite genre would be role-playing games (RPG’s), and it is not as wacky as it sounds. Often these games follow different stories and characters that you control the decisions of, or simply playthrough their unique story. One of my all time favorite game series would be Dragon Age. It truly is an example of having an open ended character, but more of a structured plot. You’re able to create and react to the world as the player, but the world and story have a generally predetermined ending -that varies slightly. If you’re looking for a fantasy experience outside of books, I would highly recommend this series.

The final piece to the trinity of activities I love would be learning. I know that sounds a bit cheesy, but I just lose myself to different documentaries all the time. Whether it be about random deep sea creatures, or missing persons cases. Sometimes I find the best stories come from real life, and not just from my head.

What do you lose yourself in?