I'm loving the book suggestions in this thread. I'll add my own: Jerusalem Creek by Ted Leeson. Very contemplative and starts out a little slow but I thought his reflections were well worth the time. To address Gene's initial query: I think that we fish to find "flow", i.e. a state of mind where everything becomes irrelevant except for the here and now, also known as living in the moment. So in that sense it is escapist: we escape our extraneous worries and hassles by concentrating on the moment. Any pursuit that gives the person flow becomes addicting - whether it's the detective hot on a case, an academic researching an interesting topic, or a flyfisherman trying to catch fish. Ted Leeson has this to say about when he took up fishing: "At the time, there was just catching trout or not catching them. We never considered ourselves as "learning" to fish, and put to us that way, we would have found the idea laughable. We weren't learning to fish,; we were fishing - wholly occupied by the thing itself, never considering ourselves at all. And perhaps this is why it all took root and grew in us, not because we thought about it, but because we didn't." (from Jerusalem Creek). Flow is what's missing from your job, Gene.
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