A HOAX ALLY

What is loneliness? Is it the 2am when you are awake at night and have no one to talk to? Is it the day time when you are having your lunch alone at the side of a road? The answer might be both. Or perhaps there’s a way to look at it in a completely different way.

Maybe loneliness is when you reach your class room in the morning and you see that there’s no seat for you. Maybe it’s people waving hello to you but not listening if you call their names for help. Maybe it’s when they leave you out of everything and pretend they didn’t. Or maybe it’s when they all laugh at you for encountering a failure. Maybe it’s when your boss toss a bunch of papers on your face if he didn’t like them and no one cared to ask you what’s wrong? My point is, real loneliness is when you are surrounded by people you call your friends, and they play the greatest role in making you realize that you are alone.

I want you to do something, close your eyes for a minute, and name a person who has been there for you always, who has never hurt you even once. Who helped you when you needed it? Go on, try for a minute.

What did you get? Your parents? Siblings? A friend or a closed acquaintance? Or no one?
Let’s take a moment for those people who did get someone in their mind, they are very lucky. Lucky enough to possess such super humans in their lives. But I’m sure those super humans don’t fulfill the criteria completely. No one is perfect and everyone in your life hurts you at least once. But still you always have someone you can count on. You always have a shoulder you can rest your head on. That feeling of being secured and being loved is always with you. But..

How about those people who didn’t find anyone? They might feel themselves unlucky, but the truth is, they are one of the strongest beings in the world. Who have the courage to walk in their class and pull a chair for themselves while carrying their heavy bag on their shoulders.  Who have the power to lift others up even when they walked away from them at the time of need. The people who have the strength to walk up a stage even while remembering the mocking and laughter of the people at their failure. The person who is brave enough to gather up those tossed papers and make them right. Those are the people who are actually fearless. Because they are self-made and independent. They are the survivors of cruelty of life. They are the people who learn to fight their own battles, the ones who have the audacity to pull out the knife, stabbed by their closest friends. And they are luckiest one, because they rely on no one but themselves and their only companion is GOD.

So next time if you are sitting alone, and having a lunch by yourself. Just look at the movement of trees. Cherish that every bite of your food. Take a look at the sky and see the birds flying. See the butterfly sitting on a flower, and you will feel everything speaking to you in its own way. No one is ever alone, we just associate it with human interaction. But in reality we just need to learn the language of nature, the language of birds, of trees, of sky, and most importantly! of ourselves.