It must feel better to go into video games or VR or escape into any show, into anything, when your life is not in alignment with what you intended.

But here’s the thing:
If I don’t like my life, if I don’t like my present moment, then I need to give that moment my undivided attention. That moment that is incompatible with what I want in life, that is the moment I need to give 100% of my time, attention, effort, and creative power to figure out how to change. How to change my situation. How to change myself, if needed. How to create that life.

Any escape may feel good in the moment, but it will take us further from the life we want.

So in these situations, especially, this is the time to dig in, not run away. This is the time to build that new skill, start that new business, give extra at our job, or double our effort to find a new job. If it’s finding a partner, then we double our efforts and keep trying. Whatever about our lives that we don’t like, we are capable of changing. It may take time. It will probably take effort. But there is no one for whom the law is different: time + effort always leads to results.