Lonely

Today a freind of mine asked me(via SMS) why we feel scared to be alone when we came to this world alone and we know for a fact that we are going to leave this world alone? We are always in search of security. Therefore we try to belong to a group. Even a group is lonely as it is divided in terms of ideas with other groups. Hence we are never together as a whole. To handle his insecurity,man has created God, society, culture, nation which gives one security in a psychological way. I replied to her SMS as above.

One can spot a tree standing lonely in the midst of a vast field. Its roots are deeper. Free to expand. Nothing interferes in its growth. It gets to absorb all the minerals without distinction of good or bad. It chooses with its natural instinct as there is no other roots for the tree to follow. There is no patterns established for the tree to follow. It derives its strength from its immediate surroundings. It understands that a lonely tree is vulnerable to an axe or storm. Therefore it derives its strength from this very vulnerability. One look at the tree, one can spot the divinity surrounding the same which normally one doesnt find in a herd. It knows for a fact that it belong to the ground underneath and the vast sky above. It belong to the whole.

One can feel lonely in a group and also can feel being part of the whole while sitting alone. The question is therefore not why one is afraid to be lonely, but rather why one is unable to identify with the whole.