Recipe for Loneliness

“When you walk in the dark, even your shadow does not follow you”

So said Adolf Hitler, a cold-blooded Nazi, who rose to heights to satiate his obsessive hunger for power.

There are many leaders, politicians and people in influential places, who snooze through the deserts of loneliness each day. For any of their sociable gestures are but within the line of unspoken periphery, inside which there are no sentiments or favoritism or human bounds of any kind (so to avoid others from taking leverage over one’s plain courteousness). In this era headed toward globalization, most individuals are more than triumphant to lucratively bank for their physical needs of food, clothes and shelter. Indeed most of the white collared professionals are well-resourced to splurge their surplus on superfluous merchandises. But, these very people, who have all the money in the world to make them happy, are seldom satisfied on this journey called life. Sometimes it makes me wonder, if it is this life’s very emptiness that alters them to a selfish state to obsessively chase for Money, Power and Luxury. So do we find Happiness in them? We all know the end of Sir. Adolf Hitler….It sure was futile.

Reminded of a dialogue of the widow mother to her recently widowed daughter, in the movie P.S: I Love you: “I know you are lonely, I’m too, but at least we all are together in this loneliness”. Ironical as it may sound, but yes we all may seem happy from outside, but deep down within, the core of every heart, there foams, lava of discontent, a sense of untold loss, poignant thoughts of those broken dreams……Words can’t capture the colossal avatars of Loneliness. Your tears could have been crystallized through years; blood oozed from your hurt soul could have now clogged with no fellow soul to notice; your desire to simply “be understood/wanted” may now be just a hallucination, far from reality; you may have become Zombie, walking dead, with personal little desires buried and living through the routine scheduled responsibilities. Rich or poor, Political Leader or civilian, Influential or layman, you or me, married or single :-) *(1), we all as social animals are connected with the same cord. Are on the same plane! Are together in our loneliness! Collectively wanting for something from outside to make us happy within…..

Born from a mediocre family that’s been struggling through many hurdles, I was no exception. Since my childhood days, I’ve felt rejected. Parents who could provide the best of life’s best for me, somehow could not shore up to my wants for their special exclusive love. Formative decade at school was cocooned within walls of isolation, a defense shield from those bulling and teasing fellow mates. Friends who dawned up later, swiftly moved on at the same tempo they walk in. But, yet there on this boulevard of loneliness I was not alone, as I thought it might be. There was someone who’s been all along. He kept me going. His name is Jesus Christ!!! It may be tough for a neo-generational, techno-professional, semi-computerized personality, to count on someone unseen to quench one’s thirst of loneliness. But, I’ve always felt His real-time comfort during those downhill gloomy interludes of life. Hours muted through solitude, has always ended in His enlightening companionship. I just don’t assume He’s there, but have felt and known His presence carrying me through. I’m happy, Joyful and contented – Just because of Him.

Happiness is from outside is momentary and is very much relative to its environment. Happiness quotient fluctuates with how our-others treat us. It’s always possible to be excessively happy on the outside, be rich and of High power and yet intrinsically feel lonely and miserable. But Joy, that Jesus Christ gives is everlasting and from within. Joy is not relative to its environment and no matter how shoddier your loved ones treat you, you will experience brimming peace inside your heart’s core. It’s would be feasible to reside in worst of life’s miseries and yet be joyful. He is as Real as your wants are... He is the one who can make you feel Joyful from within.....He is the lone gratification for all that lava of bitter discontent…. He is the only recipe for your loneliness.

Being lost, means nothing more to lose. So, why not try Jesus Christ, before you sink further deep in your ocean of problems and head nowhere. Make a Simple Prayer*(2) … Probe Him, if He’s for Real?, Ask Him to show up just once, in your life… it will just be astounding to comprehend God’s way... You will never ever feel lonely again…..

*(1) Married people are lonelier than singles *(2) Am not being conventional repeating what preachers before my times have sermonized. This is my experience for ‘REAL’. A REALITY that God wishes to help each lament soul with.