Do you also have moments when you wish to be alone? Well I certainly do. So, few days ago, I was thinking of going to park near my office, have a coke in can, sit on the wooden bench, and just let my minds wander around. So, I got my coke, ciggies, and went to the park. I sat on the bench, opened can with well known "swooosh" sound, and started to think about actually nothing…As soon I reached that point that your mind is in harmony with itself, just refreshing lines in brain, one kid playing with ball stopped and looked at me curiously. As I'm a father myself, I smiled at him, nod my head, and continue my relaxation. Kid stood there for a moment, and after few seconds asked:
"Hi, what are you doing?"
"erm, Nothing" I replied, knowing that relaxation is over, and dozen of questions are on their way.
"What do you mean, nothing, how can You DO nothing" kid asked, obviously not interested anymore in his play.
"Well, You can do nothing. Just sit down and stay quiet, and You will see for yourself."
The kid sat by me, cross his little arms, and started to look like me. After few moments he said
"Doing nothing is really boring, dont you think?"
I smiled at him, as he stated it well actually, yet I couldn't explain why am I doing it, or why it will not be so boring when he grows up.
"You are right" I gave up, knowing that this conversation I cannot win. "So, how did You spent this day" I finally asked. Looks that it was the right question to ask for him, since he started from the beginning of time, and explain to me all about his friends, his parents, grandparents, even the event when he fell off rocking-chair and cut his knee and elbow. So finally him mother arrived and started to apologize for his annoying behavior. So they went off, kid was obviously happy that someone listened to him.
Surprisingly I was kinda sad when he left, but then I have remembered that I have kid that will soon start asking zilion of questions and that fact actually reassured me.
That is how my relaxation was over, yet I went back to office with a smile on my face. It wasn't actually how I imagined my relaxation, but it was actually fun. So, at the end do we really need to be alone, or is it just current state of mind? I mean, OK, I want to be alone, if I get alone for some time its OK, I wanted to, but if someone disrupts me, would I be mad, or happy? That further means that if Im happy when someone sees my loneliness and I react as happy, then it means that in the first place I actually wanted to invite someone into my loneliness and thus draw it away from me. So, do we use current state of mind to be lonely just to draw some attention?
Well, I couldn't agree fully with that, but from certain point of view, I think it is somewhat true. Do You?
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