Spent the last seven days in a small town called Nuh about 80 km from New Delhi. I was there for overnight sky observations and was really hoping that the sky would cooperate this time after throwing a few cloud packed nights the previous month. Sure enough I got some really good nights and had a good time with all the school students who would join me in the evening and give me company through the night. This group of students would leave in the morning, just before sunrise and thats when a new world would begin.
All away from the city, alone in a small town with just the basic amenities at hand (and the luxury of my laptop to top it off) an incredible state of mind would set in. Have to admit it took me a couple of days to adjust to the stay-up-all-night-sleep-in-the-day routine, but the third day onwards I enjoyed a life many rarely get to experience. Eventually I realized not many would actually want to experience something like this, but then again I have always been a misfit, haven’t I?
Its a bohemian feeling. Lost in the middle of nowhere, no attachments, no worries no connections to anything or anyone. I remember a quote by Einstein where he mentioned that he never belonged to any country, place, person or relation. This is what he must have experienced. Its a joyful solitude and a comfortable loneliness.
As I lay hearing the sounds of chirping birds, as I stared out at the sight of the Aravali Hills covering three sides into the distance and letting the Sun enter this world from the fourth, as I felt the cool morning breeze with the smell of dew all around, it was a high I would rarely get from anything in the city. I could stay lost in that moment, frozen in time forever, without a care in the world. A life serenely peaceful where I would let my body rest and the mind work under no worries, no tensions and no strings attached.
Staying there I experienced the age of innocence and true loneliness. Loneliness that the word originally must have been devised to describe. Not a negative state of mind or a depressing stage in life as the urban population has turned it into, but a joyful bliss with a feeling of complete freedom and detachment. A state devoid of worries and problems. Just a serene calm and undiluted joy.
It was a completely individual experience where I owed nothing to anyone and no one expected anything of me. I was simply me. That was true loneliness, a lost attribute and a forgotten ideal. That was the real lost reality.
Tags: Life, loneliness
Nikhil Pawar
sounds like you loved it, so how come you wanted to strangle the kids?:-)
but seriously sounds awesome.
did not want to strangle them… but some kids would really get on my nerves at times!! Having said that, most of them were really interested and excited to be there.
Its always like that in small towns n cities; no tensions, no worries, no strings, nothing to catch, nothing to run after, just a simple life to live, a simple and happy life. Glad you liked the experience.