Thursday, July 31, 2008

"Man is a social animal"

...said my class two textbook. Is that why we struggle so hard to belong somewhere, to someone, to a certain group of people with certainty and love? Is that why, identity, the curious remarkable thing that defines itself by being defined by everything around it, is so important to us that we constantly seek to establish and hold on to it? Is that why no matter how used to you've grown to walking alone, sometimes you still crave for a companion? No matter how independent and self-sufficient you are, even you need someone to laugh and cry with, even you hate eating alone sometimes?

Why does a sense of security come with reaching out to someone, feeling close to someone? Why is the nothingness of hours, the silence of the wind, the coldness of 'friends' felt like this? Why do we seek escape into illusions where we have no time to realize how lonely we are?

Rehne do, I don't even wanna know. You wouldn't understand.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

amen (esp to the eating alone part :) )

Anonymous said...

At least you understand that now ...

daman said...

baap re ... u told me to relax and take things easily... i would only say that we ourselves are responisble for this illusion...circumstances do drag us into them.. so we 've got to find way out of it. I think that one can't have too many friends in life so we should stick to one's whom we trust(although that too can be difficult)

Ekta said...

same doubts i suffer.

we suffer in lonliness,we suffer in closeness.To think of it,Bliss too is some sort of suffering

heh.we are doomed.God cheated us :P

zapper said...

ahh...such kinda posts go way above my head...
how and why does one even have to think of such stuff??
but i know your answer...it would be "rehne de...you wouldn't understand"

Bhushan said...

true.
sometimes you dont wanna know the answer even when you it.

One more blogger said...

There are certain things we all know deep down but they are difficult to accept.
But dnt say "You wouldn't understand" after this one because feel this is something we all must have felt and we all must have realized.

aditi said...

So true, we can't do without companionship.You know what's strange is that often the ones who seem self sufficient are ones who need it the most.

Anonymous said...

Yeah...all of it is just soooo true.
But then its really tough to answer this. As in, its just so obvious na.

And yes, I can atleast answer that part about eating alone. You see, when you eat with someone, its divides your bill into two, without necessarily meaning that you'll order twice the quantity. As in, if you eat alone, you'd be tempted to order one paneer butter masala and one dal makahni, and even if you are with someone, then also these 2 dishes would be more or less sufficient. So you see, you can cut into your food bills this way. Logic!