We sail through two powerful but opposing streams: a desire to socialize and wish to be alone. We live in in-betweenness.
We always seek unknown- a mysterious unknown side of our self. We keep moving, keep wrestling with time, and end with revolving around a circle. We do some forward steps, many in the backward, and we call it an exercise of living. This may or may not build hope muscles, but it necessarily deepens our craving for solitude.
The networks we build may bring us opportunities in earning more wealth and upgrading our social status. People we live with may expand our moments of felicity. And the world around us may contextualize our efforts in creative production.
The world-beyond-us may give us a measure-of-life. But it is world-within-us that will define who we are.
Our pursuit of solitude takes us to those solitary moments when we dive deep into our own self; they are the moments of melancholia when we are weeping or sad while wrestling with the unknown world inside us. Whatever the knowledge of the world we do acquire, wisdom comes from knowing more about oneself. Our pursuit for solitude reminds that human self is a mysterious one and needs to be explored again and again.
Strip off the solitude from human life, and you will see how souls will turn into hardened rocks, and the pool of originality will dry forever. We will mimic life, not worthy to be called life.
Nevertheless, there will always be a secret pleasure in pursuing moments of solitude.
M Hasnain says:
I think there are two problems.
Firstly, we live in in-betweenness, and end with revolving around circle. Later is negation of former or vice versa.
We achieve something but we end with revolving around circle, mean achieve nothing.
secondly, solitary moments are moments of melancholia and of weeping, and also there is secret pleasure in pursuing them. It imply that a secret pleasure trigger us to attain melancholia and weeping. i don’t think it is so. If it is so then what is secret pleasure.
Yaseen Baig says:
Nice to see your intellectual response
The pursuit of solitude is a secret pleasure, which we wish to seek all the time. Moments of melancholia would be taken as a means to experience that pleasure. Pleasure does not trigger something, it is the outcome of when we experience through solitude. We wish to go through that experience again and again.