People are looking for escapes in many of life's situations also. When we have difficulties, frustration; we try to escape from them. Many people try to escape in such a horrible way.
Wanting to escape is okay, but what is the right thing to do to escape?

The right thing to do is to watch the process more closely, to understand it more thoroughly.
No matter what, even in your life any situation which
is painful, if you want to escape or overcome it,
the best way to escape is to pay more attention, to study it more thoroughly, to understand it in every detail, completely.
Complete understanding is the only way to overcome it.
There is no other way better than that,
no matter what the situation is, either meditation or
other worldly situation. This is the right attitude.

Once you get to this point in meditation, and understand
that, the only way to overcome any painful situation is to pay more attention to it, to understand it even more deeply, thoroughly and completely. After that, even in your life, when you face a difficult situation you don't try to run away from it, you don't turn away; you don't shut your eyes. You try to look at it more closely "What is happening now? I want to understand it even more deeply".

The insight you get in meditation is applicable in
your every day life, in your worldly problems.
You develop the right attitude to live the whole of your life, not only in meditation.
For your whole life this is the right attitude.

After paying even more attention `willingly,' and this is very important, because you are willing to look at it again, because you pay so close an attention, there is no other desire anymore, no agitation anymore; you don't even want to escape from it anymore, because you are paying such a close attention. So, see this point very clearly. You pay so complete attention that there is no
other desire anymore. That complete attention makes the mind very balanced; there is no split or division. Before this when you meditate, you want to escape "I don't want to do this anymore, I don't want to see it anymore; what shall I do now? Shall I stop
meditating?" Your mind is not really whole; you are not paying whole attention. But when you come to this equanimity state you pay complete attention, "No matter what happens, even if I die in this process it is ok". You don't want to do anything else, you just want to pay complete attention and then the meditation becomes
really mature. The culmination of meditation, "nothing else I want to, do no matter what happens, even if I die in this process I am willing to look at this process, look at it... look at it...".
That sort of whole hearted attention makes the mind really settle down. Even in your life situation when you decided "Well this situation is very difficult now, very painful, but I will really pay all my attention, I will really look at it", the moment you decide that, you'll find that you calm down, not so agitated anymore. That decision is very important. When you are paying complete attention, willingly, your mind calms down and becomes more balanced, no extremes, no attachments. Before
that when your mind calms down, you feel so happy, you feel so much joy that sometimes you get agitated and get attached to that happiness and joy. But now peacefulness becomes even greater but you are not even attached to that peacefulness. Your equanimity, your balance is so great.

A snip from A Map of the Journey by ujotika