Tuesday, July 29, 2008

LONELINESS, ALONENESS and SOLITUDE

Hello Everyone!
I am just digressing a little from the stories of yore and writing this blog about the three words most of us , I believe comprehend to mean the same but actually that is not the case. i was quite intrigued to read about them and would like to write down what I learned and what I could understand about these 3 very often used words, specially in the lives of teenagers and those who are new to the world of adulthood.
I would like to write this blog a little metaphorically and my prop for comparison is water, the elixir of our existence. U take ice, water and steam and show them to a person, who isn't much aware of things and perceives things as they appear physically, a rarity to be found these days (such beings lacking in common knowledge), still they do exist and they do form a very large chunk of the ignorant part of our society. Now when he observes the three things, he is unable to link the three and according to him ice is ice, water is water and steam is steam, ignoring the fact that they are the same thing, just in different states. Whereas, when a well informed or even a person having just enough knowledge of states of matter is shown these and asked to relate, he can easily say that they are just the three forms of same thing, water, boil it and u get steam, freeze it and u get ice.
Now, we as readers and visitors of these sites online are not like the former person but in some way or the other either like or even better than the latter one and hence as readers of language, we must be aware and be able to relate the 3 words, loneliness, aloneness and solitude. As most of us till now believe that they more or less give the same meaning of a condition or situation of being alone, friendless and probably a negative phase of life. But as technocrats, we are bound to get to the roots of anything dicey and when we do that with these three words, the situation is very different. Aloneness is actually a neutral state of being alone with neither positive nor negative energy related to it, whereas loneliness is the state of being alone when not wanting to be and hence is actually the negative state and most ill-conceived by us all is solitude, which actually is using the absence of people around you to ones advantage, and doing or thinking something constructive.
My analogy with water says that if one adds some positive energy(like heating) to water (the neutral) state, it gets into a highly vigorous state, workable, steam, which has a lot of energy and can then be used for various purposes, on the contrary if u take out some energy from water(again the neutral state) you get,a very rigid, cold and highly energy consuming, ice, which physically though has its uses but thinking a little abstract, esp in terms of energy, it is a waste. This is exactly the case with aloneness, u add negative energy, that is in form of negative thoughts, ideas and actions and what you get is a spoilt, cold, emotionless individual who if not attended to properly can become a threat to his well-wishers and on a bigger scale to the society. This state is what is "loneliness".
Now u add positive thoughts, work force, and ideology to aloneness and then u enter the phase of solitude, which actually is highly effective and efficient way of doing positive work. Aren't all the great scientists and inventors of the past considered as being insane for being alone and lonely always? But the fact is that Archimedes, Einstein, Edison were all anything but lonely, they were serving themselves and the society in their solitude.
So next time u see a person fiddling with only himself around, don't think him to be lonely and be sympathetic or think him to be insane and neglect him because who knows the next day he is ready with one of the greatest mood-elevating inventions the very next day.!!!!:):)

"The greatest of achievements are made in solitude, the crowd just gathers to be a part of history being made!!!"

4 comments:

ritesh said...

i agree with it,d only thing being--u cannot call a person in solitude as some1 radiating radiating positive energy.

NikhiL said...

n i used to wonder y ritesh talks so much.. he has a grudge against solitude :P

Unknown said...

:)

Poorvi Kala said...

absolutely agree wid whtever u wrote...:)