Being alone in a room of 7Billion people.
How ironical it is, right?
A world beaming with a humongous population of 7 Billion, almost everyone owns their own digital devices capable of connecting people at the two different ends of the world at the speed of light. A miracle that was not even available to the royalties a few hundred years ago.
Clearly, advancements in technology have drastically improved our outer world, bringing all sorts of services right to our doorstep, except joy.
We are one of the most comfortable and lucky generations the world has ever seen until now, but we are also the most lonely, unhappy, and insecure! It is pretty clear that outside advancements and changes have not brought any joy to us, the way is somewhere else.
Millions of people(3 out of every 5, if you are a number guy) suffer every year from loneliness in a world that can connect them to literally anyone on just a click. Loneliness is not just a state, it is a journey of the degradation of mind where the person suffering feels uncomfortable, unwelcomed, and disconnected from those around him. It starts slow and moves on to cause pain, suffering, and to the point where the person might feel that they can’t even talk to someone about what they are going through. But in reality, they can. People who love them would go all ears to hear out their troubles and worries only if he could have the mind to say it.
So, what is in play here. Clearly, the mind. The mind tells us that it is not good to talk to someone in some manner, in some way, in some situation, in some this, in some that, until the point that you feel like you can’t even talk to someone without being judged or without any negative consequences. It is the mind that is in play when you feel like no one wants to hear you out, or you think that people might consider you a poor lad. The mind plays its game and you let it win.
Tell me something, will you? If you have a car that has an amazingly powerful engine. Now, the driver turns around the key and the car bursts into a smooth action. It is not the other way around, is it? It’s not like the engine controls the car. The driver controls the car, the driver controls everything, including the behavior of the engine.
Now, just replace the engine with your mind and the driver with you yourself. The brain that you have should not take control of you. You should take control of what it is allowed to think and do. Agree?
Loneliness is not a disease caused by outside factors. It’s a condition caused by your own inner thoughts. And changing your own inner self is the only way to change the deteriorating condition.
The only way out is IN.
I won’t promise you this is an easy way to cure such ailments. Yes, it will take time and effort. But what better use of your time to make your life easier and happier than before.
Loneliness can cause depression, and the suffering might feel marginalized in a society that is dying to help him out.
Some of the best ways out are obviously talking to someone you trust. But if that’s too difficult for you, go and try some natural ways of healing yourself.
Practice Yoga, take shelter in the practice of meditation, write journals, try to be positive, and learn to count the blessings of life.
You can read self-help books, or follow 21 days happiness challenge on youtube. Whatever helps you, do it, because only when you do the right things, the right things happen to you!
Be Calm. Be happy.
Signing off.
Rajat Upadhyay!
