Loneliness versus Aloneness
- Jayita Sengupta
- Sep 2
- 1 min read
Aloneness is chosen, loneliness is not.
Loneliness is like a leaf in a rocking sea! Aloneness is self preservation. But Loneliness imposes Aloneness, and by and by one learns to close in within oneself cruising over the waves of life from day to day, hour to hour, minute to minute existence. Loneliness and Aloneness, both teach you to love the Self! Not to exhibit your ego before others through snooty behaviour or high handedness, so common among the elite class, nor the brazenness of the uncultured. Solitude chosen or as life's imposition on you just leads to self confrontation. Recoiling within the Self, it teaches a lot of unlearning about the Self: Who you think you are, what the world(s) think and what you try to comprehend, accept and forgive through self-recognition. The truth is ... you are just a leaf in the wave tossed sea of life! A speck in the vast expanse of creation in constant movement, resounding with AUM!
The tumultuous weather is placed in our journey; it makes us either take a step back or remain staid in the journey. On the rarest of rare occasions, you succeed at the first glance itself. When such occurrences manifold, you lean to form a belief system that defines you when you walk through such tumultuous weather again. The form of the belief system that whispers, 'You drive the flow of thoughts in a way you would like to travel.' The canvas blends the colour for the observer to get imbued in the flow of the journey; the leaf, being in a rough sea, is trying to breathe, and her thoughts are for survival at first glance. But being in such…