PEACE IN SOLITUDE?

MY POV:

My thoughts and reflections on solitude.

“Do you ever feel like escaping this town for a while. Going to an alienated place. Living in seclusion. All alone in peace. I feel that very often”

Do you ever feel like escaping somewhere? Maybe because you are too bored of watching and being around these humanly figures, bored doing the same thing everyday, bored because you are having fun, the same fun you had last weekend with your friends, and the coming weekend is already planned in your head or maybe because you’re bored being a human and you probably want to slip into another living organisms body.

I’ve always been surrounded by people since childhood. I love human beings, they are great! Trust me. We humans search for the existence of other human beings, it’s a human nature. Since childhood we search for a company, maybe because of the fear of becoming a loner or maybe because we always need someone to walk by our side in the school corridor, maybe we always need someone to sit by our side, someone to hold our hand, maybe because we’re always trying to fill those empty spaces and gaps in our life, which probably is the biggest fear in a human life, empty spaces. We’re always trying to fit in.

Demanding a space for ourselves in this universe, in this earth, in someone’s life and in someone’s heart.

But what if I demand a space for myself, and do not want anyone to enter my territory. What if I do not want to socialize, and be left alone, do not want any company, do not want anyone to talk to, I'm not talking about shutting myself down somewhere, but because all I want is to talk to my own self, discuss some issues, a little chit chat, getting lost in an ocean of thoughts, imagining dirty, dreaming with eyes open, counseling my vocation, etc. Would it hinder my image of a ‘social animal’? We get so much busy with other human beings all day that it is sometimes only a few minutes in the nighttime we get for ourselves and enjoy the peace of mind, and that too if our cell phones aren't beeping. Ya right, thank your smartphones later.

Sometimes I feel like eloping somewhere or becoming a loner for sometime. To see how is it to eat alone, walk alone, talk alone, travel alone, and breathe alone. This urge to go to some lost land all alone, becoming an alien and getting lost is inevitable. That magical imagery they show inside a time machine or a black hole or a crystal ball often used by the witches or that hollow ring filled with light, it has always attracted me. I feel like diving inside it and see where it will take me. Will it take me to some other land or will I get lost somewhere. If becoming famed and legendary is desired by humans, then I think we all should be hit by oblivion too, for once. Yes, oblivion should happen in every human beings life. But how will it happen? No idea.

Since I took this road less traveled, which means less honking horns, less automobiles, less shouting vendors and no traffic, driving to the college is the best part of the day. I drive slowly, the morning sun is beautiful; the music in my earphones is more enjoyable and that 15 min drive is one of the best parts of the day. All because that road is less traveled and secluded. Morning coffee during the winters in the back porch, late night movie marathon, 2am snacks, mute lip syncing the late night music in our headphones, deep coversations with ourselves,etc. These all are the moments we enjoy in solitude.

Solitude helps us find ourselves, have a conversation with ourselves and knowing what’s going inside us. We are just like a pencil, no matter how fine and beautiful the wooden exterior is, it does not matter, what matters is the graphite inside it. We should pay heed to what’s going inside us and how can we beautify our inner self, and sometimes seclusion is all we need to find ways. 

Akshita's POV:

2'o clock at night; they say owls wake up at this time!! Then why am I awake at this time? I doubt! maybe to find PEACE IN SOLITUDE. I have always been a person who has cherished being around people. Be it school, college I have always had a group of mine. It is only a few days back that I realized how amusing it could be do just be on your own. How peaceful it was to be all alone; in SOLITUDE.  I have been a part of a reputed school in Dehradun; where it was believed that after recess you need to meditate for 5 minutes and find Peace of Mind, so that you can concentrate on your studies better. Try to find peace in solitude!  But it was never so. In those five minutes most of us would close our eyes, giggle around, think of next class and somehow or the other tease each other. Years later; a few days back in Rishikesh at around 1 at night, lying alone on the sand; just looking at the stars I realized what really Peace in solitude meant.

Solitude to me is when there is no barrier on our soul, on our thoughts. It is when our soul and thoughts just grow wild; when our soul empowers all the materialistic things in this world. At such a point it does not matter how many people we have present physically around us; we find PEACE IN SOLITUDE! Being in solitude never means locking yourself in a room. You could be with five people around you yet communicating best with yourself in your mind and trust me when I say this you will surely find peace in it.  If solitude did not exist imagine the entire world of invention inside the mind and soul would not exist. A lot of people do not find peace in solitude and what they face is depression. Therefore it is very important that we stay calm, think about our life, find peace in Solitude and then just break the silence and share that thought with someone.  After that night in Rishikesh I found answers to a lot of my questions; which I desired to ask life or rather myself. But then it was very important for me to share those answers with one of my best friends. And the Peace in my mind completed itself only when all Silence, My thought and a view from someone important made a package out of it.

Therefore at times when you find yourself standing all alone in this huge universe, do not lose hope or get depressed; let it be your time. A time when you self evaluate yourself. Stay in that state of solitude and communicate to the inner cores of your soul and mind. And then come out with a bang to tell the world about your thoughts through actions. And it is only then that you will find PEACE IN YOUR LIFE…Be it in the state of solitude or with thousand people around you.

P.S- A warm welcome to my friend Akshita Vohra, for featuring in my blog! 

Our thoughts are not contradictory. It is a mere perception of two different minds on solitude. 

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