Theres a common phrase ‘a solitary reaper’ and people generally attribute a negative connotation to it. I have always been a bit of a loner.I love quiet places sometimes ,to drift off on dreams ,to conjure up hypothetical situations or just laze around. Its not a real place but keeps you cocooned from it. A warm,safe haven from the rest of this mad barking world.Once in awhile reaping the bliss of solitude is good. I miss the NITK beach. It was a magical place.I come from the city of Marina hence its not the beach that attracts me in Surathkal ,its the stillness of time there. The place is so quiet that every cry of sea gulls and the roaring sound of waves crashing on the shore could be heard almost in synchronization with your heart beat. There would be times when you could just gaze at the vast ocean losing yourself in the enormity of the power of nature. In Marina its hard to do that amidst cacophony of large crowds.
The past few months I have been surrounded by people of all kinds from lab mates to friends to house mates. I have found out what it is to engage in conversation with people from different ages at IISc . Its weird sometimes, sometime fun and sometimes its a forced learning curve but life just takes you along on a juggernaut.
Its that beach I miss, a symbol of eternal passage of time yet an illusion of time standing still…
Archive for November, 2009
Precious moments of solitude
