Lonely in a Crowd...

We are a species of over seven billion individuals. We live in societies, communities, nations, federations, etc. We communicate constantly and yet we are so lonely on a fundamental level.

We go about our daily chores, among milling crowds of millions but at the end of the day, we are left alone. Living in a city, where life moves swiftly, where we can’t really take moment to stop and pour our heart out before a fellow human, it becomes evident how singularly solitary our existence has become.

Come to think of it, it all boils down to the simple concept of ‘self’. Which then leads to instincts like self preservation, self development, self esteem, etc.

Doesn’t the concept of ‘self’ beat the purpose of being a part of something larger, be it a community, a countty or a race. An extension of ‘self’ is the concept of ‘my’. My family, my land, my property, my future, etc.

No. I am not advocating communism, if thats what you’re thinking. I totally agree with the premise that thinking and struggling for ‘self’ has brought us this far. Its all over the theory of evolution, “sustenance of self” and then species. But somewhere down the line, the species part of that theory gets ambivalent and then redundant.

I am just taking a moment here to wonder about how lonesome we really are. And its so perplexing to think that the very instinct that drove us through evolution has left us so pathetic.