Which is better?
Is quitting social life is like waiting for death?
Any one in here lived alone more than 2 years?
If I spend life in forest for 2 years and rejoin with crowd, will my perception about the world changes ?
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I also ask myself this question. What would it be like to travel around for a few years witout much money, to India or Nepal? Meditate most of the day, without any social duties? Could I face my loneliness and smile? Can one transcend ones neediness by isolation and come back to society as a man of love and freedom? What happens to one, if all the distractions die, no PC, no TV, no grocery stores and stoplights? Can there only me or would I go mad?
What does it feel like to breath the forrest’s misty morning? To climb a mountain to wash my eyelids in the rain? Kneeling in the dark?
I cannot tell you my friend for I never tried. It seems like I never will. But you should try!
Why do you want to quit social life?
I found this rat race is pointless.
get marks, get job, get better job, make money, make more money, get beautiful wife, divorce her if found another more beautiful woman, social status, get knowledge, hoard more knowledge. get old and stink. die………….after all if I ask myself ” Why you did all these?” ” is that the only thing you can do with 80 years given to you?” ” who told you to do all these?” I am not convinced with the answer “Since every other is doing, I should do or this is how humans life to be spent on earth”
It is possible to be alone even in a crowd. You can be alone simply by being around people who don’t care about you, only themselves. I was married and yet “alone” in the sense I didnt have a real wife (in many ways).
I still have mom here, and am more “physically alone” now, but happier since it is better to be alone than to deal with what I delt with.
I dont think people are meant to be solitary creatures. I do understand some prefer that, but living alone and then returning to society isnt going to do much for you other than perhaps realizing how bad society is in a lot of ways.
(just my opinion).
Your plan would either make or break you. Living alone like that for 2 years will tell you a lot about who you are, what you are capable of (or not).
(I just wanted to add that).
“When people realize how lonely it is being on their own, they will become kind.”
It’s true, as far as my life has gone. Also, being alone teaches you your own limitations. It’s a good experience, and if you have the guts to go through with it, you will most likely return to society a lot more humble, a lot more wise, and a lot more kind, with less of an individualistic do-it-yourself attitude.
My wife split shortly after I was diagnosed with MS. My kids are too busy with their own lives and I can’t talk to them. I have been alone for almost 7 years and most days, I first have to find a reason not to eat my gun. So far, I’ve found reasons to go on but I’m running out of them. I’m an atheist so all that is waiting for me is an infinity of nothing. I’m coming closer and closer to the point where an infinity of nothing is preferable to the physical, emotional, and psychological pain I feel every minute of every day.
Me too doc, only I have no legacy and no dependents. I say that regretfully because all my life I have welcomed my share of communal responsibility, not more and not less. Unfortunately it never came around and in its place I got public schooling and self-hatred. When you never ask for help, people see it not as something to admire but as giving them a cold shoulder and a reason to ignore you. As creatures none of us can survive alone. Not well at least. Those that will always prosper will be the ones who stay together. You’re more likely to survive in a group than you would going to war all by yourself, even if you and your group are wrong. God have mercy on you if you are wrong and alone. If that doesn’t explain everything you need to know about human nature, I don’t know what will.