Let me be..

I have been craving for some time alone, all to myself.

The more I want it, the more it evades me.

This has also led me to think how alien the concept of snapping out is to most of us.

Why is it such an ill understood concept? Most people do not understand that just because you want to spend time with yourself doesn’t mean you want to cut away from them or that you do not like their company. Unfortunately, there is some sense of insecurity or a feeling of rejection associated with those who you want to get away from.

What needs to be understood better is the desire to be alone and spend time all by oneself has less to do with getting away from your close ones and more to do with going towards yourself.

When the days and weeks have been rushed and the personal and professional demands start taking a toll, it’s as if you are divided into a hundred thousand shreds scattered in all directions. Each shred having a life, an emotion, a context of its own.

That’s the time when one needs to snap out, look in and sit still. And all those hundred thousand shreds of you travel back slowly and stick to your core. It’s like rewinding the scene of an underwater explosion.

Let me be.