The difference between realization and escapism?

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant.

Acharya Prashant (AP): Escapism is — I am moving from city to village, from wife to mother, from job A to job B, from office to ashram, from object to object. Realization is from object to the core. In both, there is a movement involved, there is no doubt about it. And the movement sometimes is physical also. It may or may not be physical, but it can be physical. So, there is a movement involved but if the movement is from one object to another object then you call it escapism. If behind the movement is something else, then it is not escapism. Is this clear? The difference between these two? Moving from tea to coffee is?

Listeners (L): Escapism.

AP: But, moving from desire to the source of desire, that is realization.

So, success to failure, escapism. And, failure to success, escapism. One need not be at a particular position to move to the core. You can be anywhere on the circle if you want to move to the center. Would the journey be different? Wherever you are on a circle, if you want to move to the center, would the journey be different?

So, the winner or a loser, how does it matter? How does it matter whether you are a winner in the world or a loser in the world? Wherever…