Solitude
Came across this flipping through the pages of a book:
“Solitude isn’t a place to settle down”
One of those phrases, which caught my eyes and brought my thoughts to a screeching halt! How true!
Solitude needs to be experienced. It provides a respite. It recharges the self. Yet solitude isn’t the place to park oneself permanently! For every charge seeks fulfillment in discharge. There’s a celebration in being connected too with the society at large!
Yet don’t we, in the midst of crowd, securely lock ourselves in the ivory tower? Is that solitude as well?
And if solitude isn’t a place to settle down, is the madding crowd the other alternative? Or is there a middle ground? Or should it be an optimum mix (how, its either solitude or isn’t?)?
I ponder on this thought in solitude…or is this a thought which I’m actually sharing with many others?
Came across this:
After all this kind of fanfare, and even more, I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of 'thinking' and 'enjoying' what they call 'living,' I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds....
Anonymous
To which there was:
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
Honore de Balzac
and yet:
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion, it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the world, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Ralph Waldo Emerson