Tabula Rasa
Loneliness is not a foreign feeling. It resides in all souls – at all times- waiting to resurface. Being alone, on the other hand, can feel so good – until the time it transcends to undesirable loneliness. I have been alone for some time now. Days go by without me even realizing its constant presence. And there are days when I panic with the thought of it. I realize it strongly, during my happiest times. When my heart is overflowing with exuberance, but there is no one I could clink my glass and celebrate. Of course, I still have my parents. But they have reached a stage in their lives where they are more of a spectator to all my major successes or failures, believing that now my life has rolled out on a different plane than theirs and has a pace that does not affect their lives. My friends too have their lives moving at a break neck speed to be present at each of the occasion of my joys and sorrows. In just a year – I realize how much I have been taking for granted – the...