Once again, the picture I shared for Thursdays Reflections this time is one of the many photos I took while visiting my father’s grave in the past Easter. What appeared on the glass door were the backs of some of my family who was walking out leaving my father’s grave.
For some reason, there was a feeling of loneliness when I looked at this picture. A feeling about the situation like I being left behind alone. We know that everything has a turn to leave ourselves, either one by one or at once. It can be anything, those who close to us by blood or emotionally, prosperity, glory, and popularity, or something we believe in, even ourselves someday.
That is my reason why I really try to keep a distance from fear, desire and attachment to anything because in certain situations, in the end, we will be alone and can only rely on ourselves for peace, bliss, and completely free.
Funny, many people think that I’m weird, even crazy, at least on my thinking, because I’m considered to always thought of things that are not important like that. I don’t know, I just thought that being peaceful, bliss, and free was the most important thing to step in the path of present life to the end, but I could understand such a view because in the past I also had such a perspective too, and really understood that something considered important by everyone is relative.
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Have you ever felt left alone?
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Will the things that you consider to be very important now will remain important till the end?
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Do you agree that many of my thoughts are strange and unimportant?
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I agree with you, dear friend. I am glad about all the views of my friends here. Another thing, I see from the “other world” side, where many of them cannot feel in peace in that plane related to such feelings of abandonment. It happens if our memories have not been able to escape from worldly bonds.
Many spirits of the dead still cannot go away from their attachments to the material world they have left behind. That’s what I mean by the “other world” side.
You’re most welcome. Only by learning to break away from our various attachments while living will it be easier for us to continue living as a spirit.
That’s okay, dear friend. That is your right, and I uphold differences of opinion.
Its odd but I don’t always feel alone by myself, and sometimes, I’ve never felt more alone in a crowd.
Well, I really have cried a lot when many have gone to the grave but for me, I know a God of love who will go with me when I leave this earth. I cant prove that to anyone but his spirit has helped me through many hard times and will be there for now and beyond that.
No proof. Off course I would lie if I said I was not afraid, but this presence helps me
The things of this world are only materials which come and go.
I honestly say that what you feel is not strange at all. People with an open mind, with broad insight, and wisdom will never feel left alone or lonely.
I also strongly agree that the material world is a continuous cycle.
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Your thoughts are not strange and you are not crazy too. Every person has his own thinking. It is always so that some of us understand others, but not. Depending on how sensitive we are to something.
I am glad there are friends who understand and support here. Thanks for all. I think, if we have an open mind, we will more easily understand other people or something.
My dear friend, you are just following your principles … you are a very nice man … sometimes I think your thoughts are incomprehensible, but then you explain everything nicely … we are all weird in every way … do you agree?
You are right, dear friend. I really just followed the principles, and my curiosity to understand something hidden and mysterious, especially about ourselves.
Yes, each of us is strange in our own way.
And so stay as you are,dear Albert … unique and friendly do not look at other people … let them think what they want … I personally do not burden myself with this … if I do not like to leave me alone
Your support is very valuable, dear friend. I am also glad that we have respected and supported each other’s uniqueness.
And I hope that will remain so, dear friend
I’m sure so, dear friend. Very sure.
After all, we will be alone and can only rely on ourselves for peace, bliss and completely free. Well said. Everyone at some point needs a little loneliness.
You are right about this, Ellenka, I agree with you,
First off your thoughts are wonderful, guiding and enlightening not strange, different and/or weird.
Loneliness is something all of us experience from time to time. I know that growing up I asked my grandfather questions. When he passed away I asked my father. Now there is no one but me to ask the questions of, it is different.
I’m glad there are friends here, like you, who think my mind is useful.
Yes, when there are no more people to ask, what remains is ourselves.
Do you remember the band Supertramp? The “logical Song” the questions that run too deep for such a simple man…
Yes, I remember we’ve ever talked about the song and its meaning.
🙂 I live in the logical world of zeros and ones. Sometimes it is hard to go back to the world of gray between the shadows.
I don’t see a problem there because everyone lives with their own mission. The mission is the priority to be completed.
you are a good person, Albert. Thank you for the gift of kindness.
I have never felt abandoned. I like loneliness. Nothing compares to the time you spend with yourself!
Your thoughts are not strange and unimportant… they are just your thoughts! It is simpler to say that someone is a little crazy than try understand him, don’t you think?!
One more thing we have in common likes being quiet, alone, and spending time with ourselves.
I’m happy that you don’t think I’m weird, but actually, I don’t really care about being weird or crazy.
A little craziness does not hurt anyone!
Now I feel the need to appreciate you for being willing to be friends with someone who is a little crazy.
Our species requires socialization, but the peace you experience when you’re alone, therefore free, is priceless. ?
As a human of flesh and blood, and social being, I agree with your opinion. On the other hand, I believe that we are all One with everything. So, the feeling of being abandoned is only an outward feeling in the world’s play.
Agreed. Loneliness can allow us to feel the sense of being one with everything, while engaging in socialization can distract us a little, ending up feeling lost once we lose that connection with people.
I’ve always felt the most lonely around people, and I guess you have too, as you mention you were told to be weird and crazy for thinking the way you do.
It seems that I understand more about the level of your position. People on the hill can see people in the valley, but not vice versa.
Of course I would never believe your thoughts are strange or unimportant. I feel the same as you do often and many times I have felt left alone. Those dark days are behind me but the feelings creep in from time to time. You are right, we are left with only ourselves in the end. Some think like others may not. I think in reality. It is what it is, so I do what I have to in order to protect myself for future times to come.
Thank you that you consider that my thoughts are reasonable.
I think our diamonds of peace, happiness, and free are always in us, and everything around us, or everything which comes and goes is just a sharpener so that the diamond gets brighter.
Another great way to see our world, like diamonds. I like that a lot.
…and you are that brilliant diamond is!