I enjoy my own company. I like being with just myself. Some people get that, some don’t. Most of the hours that you spend awake; you are talking, arguing, responding and reacting. Some people like being around people all the time. I don’t. At times, I would rather behave like a recluse, than answer silly questions and say things just for the sake of saying them.
At times, I just plug my ears, put on some music and walk by myself. I think once in while everyone should do that. Believe me, it really helps you think things over, when you have put the outside world on mute and spend time just with yourself and some music.
This picture was clicked on one such ‘solitude walk’, when I visited Darjeeling in May, 2009. The long, winding, unending roads communicated a repeating rhythm that comforted me. I remember having walked for almost an hour without a break, feeling so much at peace, with Yanni’s Nostalgia playing on my iPod and looking at the screen of fog slowing advancing from the skies onto the hills below. Time and again, I would pass some of the locals on the way, who seemed just so happy and content in their little world. These were people who would trek on foot for 2 hours just to get to their schools and workplaces and yet, they didn’t show any signs of complaints. They were so ignorant about the comforts of city life and probably were so happy despite their difficult lives, precisely due to that ignorance. I remember wondering and I still do – What is better? Knowing everything and feeling sad or being blissfully ignorant?
Great lighting!
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