“We can live without religion and meditation,
but we cannot survive without human affection”
--- Dalai Lama
Quite recently I have
developed a habit of sorts to think about life before I drift off to sleep
every night, and seldom have these thoughts carried over to the next day waking
me up to bizarre mornings. One such night I was thinking about how different each
person around me is. I thought about how each of them contributes to my life
every day in their own personal manner. And then I thought if I could ever live
rationally if none of them existed around me. We all know that man is a social
animal in a quite extreme manner. We try to keep in touch with our loved ones
by all possible means, be it personally, or through all the various
technologies that exist around us. Man has become social to an extent that
various networking sites and our blackberries have become our lives. And still
we complain that we all need our space. This made me question the existence and
the influence of technology in our life. And I wondered if we had all the things
in the world served to us on a plate, would we able to survive alone without
any other sign of life?
The major question
underlining this situation is about the definition of “living alone”. “Knowing
how to live alone” does not mean to live in solitude. It means to have control
of you and to have freedom and not be bogged down by the circumstances of the
past or the present.
I cherish and am
very protective of my own chosen moments of solitude, but I also know that long
periods of time alone can send me into a depressive state, or make me feel like
I'm going crazy. More specifically, a kind of panic sets in when I realize I'm
alone with my thoughts with no one to affirm or deny the soundness of my
thoughts. When I'm by myself for too long, I start to question my own understanding
of reality and everything around me.
We constantly need
interactions with others because they are such a momentous part of how we
understand and enjoy this life and our reason for living. It is important to
remember that everyone around us lives in a world that we create.
---Mediajunkie
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