via photo challenge: Solitude
I’ll accompany myself.
For I need no one along.
I can feel content this way, all alone.
For I know togetherness never lasts long.I feel no curse to have no one.
To have no one to travel this life with.
I rather feel blessed to dwell in solitude.
To the wilderness in me,’society’ is a myth.
This is a picture I captured while I was discovering Amer Fort, Jaipur, India. This lady and I came across each others paths quite often. And one fine time, she requested me to click a photograph of her. I happily did and just when she thanked me, I abruptly (out of utmost curiosity) responded to her thank you with -‘You’re here all alone?’ She said (and I remember her words quite clearly)- ‘Yes! And it feels great. But I’d suggest you to have a company every time else you have to ask strangers to click photographs of yours’. We exchanged smiles then. She went and I stood there, a li’l shaken, still, for a minute wondering if she felt lonely or she managed to go by the feeling and named it solitude (the happy state of loneliness).
-Ananya, The Verbal Seduction.
February 4, 2017 at 3:27 am
nice one ananya
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February 4, 2017 at 6:12 am
Thank you so much, Ma’am. ❤
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February 4, 2017 at 7:08 am
This is fantastic. I guess, people can have fun even in solitude. But for how long? I don’t think it’s possible for a long time, assuming the fact that you still want to be sane. Ha Ha. A lovely piece all together.
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February 5, 2017 at 11:51 am
Exactly. Solitude can be enjoyed but only for sometime. At one point, it can be life threatening. Togetherness equals happiness.
Anyway, thanks a lot for reading, Yuhu. Keep coming If my words keep you engaged. 🙂
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February 5, 2017 at 12:39 pm
Yup, will do. You write really well. Cheers.
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February 4, 2017 at 3:16 pm
🙌🙏👌👌
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February 5, 2017 at 11:55 am
Thank you so much. 😀
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February 5, 2017 at 12:01 pm
😊😊
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February 4, 2017 at 6:02 pm
Very well said ananya..
Amer is one of my favorite place to visit..
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February 5, 2017 at 11:56 am
It is so full of secrets and beautiful, right? 🙂
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February 5, 2017 at 2:08 pm
Absolutely, and that royal feel you experience there every time is awesome and quite rare too.
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February 5, 2017 at 5:31 pm
Been there just once. So can’t say with the repeating experience. But doubtlessly, it is a marvelous place to be at. 🙂
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February 5, 2017 at 7:52 am
oh my God….! Society is a myth….solitude….uff….the attitude….
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February 5, 2017 at 11:57 am
Haha. Hope the attitude’s right. 🙂
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February 5, 2017 at 4:20 pm
time being…OK….should not the regular stuff….
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February 6, 2017 at 9:07 am
That hike! It takes more to do it than concerns of whose going to take your picture.
Good going, I’d say!
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February 6, 2017 at 3:50 pm
True that. And thank you so much. 🙂
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May 10, 2017 at 2:54 am
You have written a simple incident in a great way ! Unique.
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May 20, 2017 at 4:55 am
Thanks a ton. 🙂
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