Loneliness

“We are all lonely to different degrees,

We all feel like stones cast carelessly in uncaring seas,

We are all dealing with the slow feeling of sinking slowly into the deep”

-Arunoday Singh, Spoken Fest 2017

This is an excerpt from the poem that I came across a few days ago. To start with I never call myself lonely. I am blessed with loving family and friends. However, the above lines about loneliness still ring true for me.

There’s a beauty in everything that is lonely and empty. Whenever I have been left with no one but myself, whenever people have left me or exited from my life without a trace, I have always levelled up — both professionally and personally. Whenever I am left alone, I have learnt something new about myself and about the world around me. If I wouldn’t have been left with the emptiness that loneliness brings, I wouldn’t have been able to learn and grasp new things.

I guess to be truly lonely is not a curse but a boon. I wouldn’t have stepped out of my cage if I had a company there. I wouldn’t have done anything new if the people who left me still continued to be my muse. I guess it’s true what Arunoday says in his poem, ‘We are all made lonely by design’.

I guess we don’t have to find a cure for it, for it is the cure that we always seek.

Here are the lines from poem by Arunoday Singh, that will define my loneliness forever.

‘Loneliness-Our soul’s true Clarion call,

It’s where the words live dancing,

It’s where the art begins

Like Leonard Cohen says, It’s where the light gets in’’