Magic Happens When You Learn to Enjoy Being Alone

Being alone is an art, try to learn it and know who you are.

The world has become noisy ever than before. Life is so chaotic sometimes we forget to realize it. Thousands of creatures are there in the universe. We being humans are the creature behind all the chaos. Now we are opting to live in on another planet and preparations are ongoing. After Earth, Mars is the second destination. Maybe it is too early to say but there is nothing wrong to predict in science, by the way, science without prediction can’t deliver an invention.

The toughest challenge for us is to keep our mouth close and keep abstain from useless talking. Social media makes us garrulous. Our mind becomes chaotic due to too much involvement and squandering a big chunk of time on social media. Thus our heart and mind became talkative just like our mouth.

Everybody is restless in the room. Who is that ‘everybody’ then? You or me? We need to learn the art to be in solitude. Being alone and taking a dip into the sea of imagination or recollecting some past memory makes us feel rejuvenated. You are eager to know the world, first you know yourself. To know yourself you must spend some time with yourself in solitude. It is not tough. It is not easy either.

The other day I was sitting alone on my bed. I started counting the bad things I did in my past. Believe me, it is countless. I’m in my 30s. Maybe you are in your 20s or 50s. A human being feels happy to harm another human being. I was feeling so bad about my actions, which should have been avoided. I recollected a recent incident when I behaved harshly with my daughter: I tried to open the door of our terrace. I used the correct key. However, it was not getting opened. My 4-year old daughter started niggling me. I was feeling hot. I yelled like an animal. She cried. A ‘fake sorry’ never compensates for our beast-like behaviour with loved ones.

It was my daughter that day I treated her badly. Then what about my parents, wife, siblings, colleagues, or neighbours? On some of the other occasions maybe I hurt them. I was alone when my daughter was sleeping beside me and dipped in my recent past and my far past. Ill-treatment with others is only one aspect of my badness. There are numerous things I need to rectify. For that, I must…

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