Solitude

Sometimes, you have to walk away. You have to look at the things you’re giving energy to and realise that even though you could stay, and try to win their approval or try to make it up their ladder, you could also make the brave choice to take whatever energy you have left to a space that welcomes you. It’s never an easy decision to make, and it’s never easy to accept that you might be walking down a path that will involve risk and new unknowns, but there are times in life where walking away is the best thing to do for your mind, and who you are becoming. Even if it means that people will change their opinions of you… opinions of you that are not even rooted in truth. You may still need to walk away, trusting there is so much more ahead of you.

 I want the weirdos, the clumsy, fumbling, awkward ones who call themselves a big mess, that’s where it’s at. Give me the ones whose eyes are coloured with the shades of madness. Throw me in a room with the loners, the ones who never found their place. Sit me down at the table with the dreamers, the ones who feel with eyes and see with their hearts. Surround me with the extraordinary souls, who inhale passion through their fingertips, and exhale creativity from masterpieces in their own bones. I want to dance with the ones who break their own hearts because they only know how to love too hard or not at all, build a path with the pieces of the broken ones. I will follow the trail and carry each piece back to its owner, showing them the stained glass pieces of their beautiful, broken, magnificence.

Find meaning, distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk, it doesn’t have to be a romantic walk in the park, it doesn’t have to be a walk during which you’ll have multiple life epiphanies and discover meanings no other brain ever managed to encounter. Don’t be afraid of spending quality time by yourself, find meaning or don’t find meaning but “steal” some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and Solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world, but you need to breathe, and you need to be!!!!

Signing off, your lovingly,

Rashmi Manjunath ❤