Friday, October 10, 2008

My experiments with solitude - Living Alone

[The following text is updated from the last time as are my changing views towards living alone. I guess its a change and every change deals with transients and changing opinions..that phase is still not over for me]

The more you try to find out about life, the more you get sucked into it .. when the whole exercise was actually to emerge out of it. Generally, you restrict your search to your imagination and your thoughts as to why we do certain things..why we feel good or bad or happy or sad about something..

But sometimes, You kind of take another step forward (for good or for bad you don't know) into some mysterious territories to gain a first hand experience of some scenarios which you don't get to experience in general.

Living Alone has been my recent step in that direction. And it has been very funny since then. Every day has been like omg!! So this is what it means to live alone. Ask friends, u might get conflicting views. You were getting conflicting views even before you started living this way. Infact, that was the reason you went ahead and tested the waters yourself (though i agree that always isn't the wisest thing to do). Anyways, sometimes you've got to do some things.

So, coming back to what how I am feeling. Yes, living alone is boring a bit .. but only initally ., But unlike what i was told, the boredom is reducing as each day passes. And I am kind of getting used to the surroundings. Part of the reason which makes it a little bad in my case is that currently I don't know anyone in the neighborhood. Anyways, now that I am face to face with solitude, lets befriend it. :)

अब जब तू रू-ब-रू है मेरे
तुझसे ही दो बातें हो जाएँ

5 comments:

Rohit said...

Hi Aman,

Disregarding popular opinion, I feel living alone gives you the chance to be yourself, away from the usually pretentious self that one has to be in front of others. One might think that one can be oneself and the world will accept him but the truth is far from that. People mold themselves according to the wants of the world that they want to become and remain a part of. In fact, I would even say that one who feels that he is not a pretender in front of the world is so good that he has even fooled himself!

Living alone doesn't mean being an ascetic and giving up everything. It is a state in which you can take out time for whatever matters to you in this world.

aman said...

Interesting opinion , rohit .. I totally agree that living alone helps you know who u are...

Also, no doubt that living with friends is so much fun. Living alone, I think, is a different experience and surely worth having for a while. I am enjoying it as of current :)

Sandeep Chauhan said...

hey aman, nice post and the attitude reflected by 2 lines of "sher" in the end is just too good.

अब जब तू रू-ब-रू है मेरे
तुझसे ही दो बातें हो जाएँ

aman said...

thnx sandeep..

Sandeep Chauhan said...

it's available on google video

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4920568512416532465&ei=E0z9SKWKMJHuqALY0-CeCw&q=ek+ruka+hua+faisla