Once the format was settled, I got flying. I decided that it could not be a grim portrayal of the situation. It had to be upbeat. It had to highlight the potential without undermining the seriousness of the ground reality. When I asked Celia her take on the focus of the video, she confirmed my own angle. That was good news. I felt I could not just go and distort what she had shot in almost 10 hours of tape. If it served some higher purpose, praise be to God! Alhamdulilah! (That's something I have learned from my Arab and Muslim friends).
How do I even start? Where do I start? It was a difficult decision. In the beginning, I was only concerned to make a fund-raising video. So I started chopping up pieces that were good, and had some meaningful insights from all the individuals that were interviewed, interspersed with sights and sounds of Kathmandu and Hetauda. It was good that there were some artistic sections--no I am exaggerating! Well, I am referring to a little snippet of music that went along with this sign that said: Let there be peace! And there was a section with a Nepali folk song. I grabbed those real fast. I would definitely use them. I grabbed all the snippets with children doing their things. Then I separated out the more serious interviews with the adults.
I tried to put some humor--crosscut the serious interviews with children's upbeat natur--before the message got too depressing, or turn away viewers. I felt it was important to show the reality of the school--how it looked, how student studied. As they say a picture speaks louder than the words--ok okay, those are not the exact words, but why use a cliche when you can be creative?
I had Purna, Rob Buckley, Juliana and Elizabeth Wickwire. When I reached my first review phase, it was about 20 minutes long. I knew I had to put Kirk later, but at that point, the video was meant to be only for fund raising. So I got a little creative. I wanted to get a feedback before I went and made it unbearable to watch. I asked Bruno Pareyra, who runs Ram TV programs twice a week to view it and tell me honestly what he thought. I am glad I asked. He told me that it was hard for him to understanding English coming out of Nepali tongues. At that instance I had placed all the Ms. Wickwire's interview intact toward the latter half. That was too lengthy and had to be chopped up to prevent it from being dull--despite all the interesting facial expressions, her ability to express concisely, and create new words in the process if she had to.
I agreed with Bruno's take. That set me into a new phase....
Friday, August 26, 2005
Wednesday, August 24, 2005
Making of a documentary
I had barely started to learn digital editing three months ago when I took on the challenge of producing a documentary. I am passionate about serving my home town in any way I can even though I am eight thousand miles away. But passion, as it turned out, was not enough. I also had to dig in and utilize the other two p’s—patience and perseverance.
First, I got a two-hour VHS tape from Celia (She’s a soul, I believe, who has come down to help humanity). She had reduced her 10 hours of DV tapes into 2 hours and expressed her desire to trim it to 20-30 minutes show. God bless her heart! That was a big help for me. Initially I was wavering on whether to make one cut or two—one for fund raising (maybe 20 minutes long for Celia) and the other—30 minute long—to enter into documentary festivals. Yea, I am ambitious!
I got off on a wrong foot. After a few tries, I managed to upload the 2-hour footage into a computer. The editing program we use here at the Communication, Drama and Journalism Department is Adobe Premiers 6.5. I used a swappable drive, 40 gigs. The misstep was regarding the format. Since Celia had shot it in Nepal, I assumed, she might have used PAL. Well, no! It was in NTSC—a system used in North America and Japan, she convinced me. So I uploaded the whole thing in NTSC program after a few weeks break, maybe it was a month. At this juncture I was working for the publicity of dramas we stage at our two theatres. I was not even working for the TV production yet. The first glimpse of the digital editing I had was during the production of a 30-second public service announcement for my first play publicity—Once Upon a Mattress, a mucical.
But anyhow, the first step had been taken. I was off from the starting line, to say the least. I was hoping to be Seabiscuit—a perennial underdog that pulls it off. I had started working for TV production officially, so I was getting more exposure into intricacies of editing and god forbid, the cabling of the equipments. I was so green that I cannot believe I thought I could do this. But well, it seems it is always the people who know “nada” or “muy poco” that believe they can do things the rest of the world knows better—just like George Bush believing he can graft a flourishing democracy in Iraq under the supervision of mighty US military. Sorry, I cannot help but take a shot at this folly.
But my folly was less troubling; It cost no lives, only umpteen hours of frustration. Or what other people would call frustration and I call it a learning experience—or a test of the will—or the struggle of man against the machine—or maybe the test of my will against the devious, temperamental and thwarting nature of computer software and glitches. Or it was me vs. Adobe Premiere. Most likely it was me vs. me.
To be continued…
First, I got a two-hour VHS tape from Celia (She’s a soul, I believe, who has come down to help humanity). She had reduced her 10 hours of DV tapes into 2 hours and expressed her desire to trim it to 20-30 minutes show. God bless her heart! That was a big help for me. Initially I was wavering on whether to make one cut or two—one for fund raising (maybe 20 minutes long for Celia) and the other—30 minute long—to enter into documentary festivals. Yea, I am ambitious!
I got off on a wrong foot. After a few tries, I managed to upload the 2-hour footage into a computer. The editing program we use here at the Communication, Drama and Journalism Department is Adobe Premiers 6.5. I used a swappable drive, 40 gigs. The misstep was regarding the format. Since Celia had shot it in Nepal, I assumed, she might have used PAL. Well, no! It was in NTSC—a system used in North America and Japan, she convinced me. So I uploaded the whole thing in NTSC program after a few weeks break, maybe it was a month. At this juncture I was working for the publicity of dramas we stage at our two theatres. I was not even working for the TV production yet. The first glimpse of the digital editing I had was during the production of a 30-second public service announcement for my first play publicity—Once Upon a Mattress, a mucical.
But anyhow, the first step had been taken. I was off from the starting line, to say the least. I was hoping to be Seabiscuit—a perennial underdog that pulls it off. I had started working for TV production officially, so I was getting more exposure into intricacies of editing and god forbid, the cabling of the equipments. I was so green that I cannot believe I thought I could do this. But well, it seems it is always the people who know “nada” or “muy poco” that believe they can do things the rest of the world knows better—just like George Bush believing he can graft a flourishing democracy in Iraq under the supervision of mighty US military. Sorry, I cannot help but take a shot at this folly.
But my folly was less troubling; It cost no lives, only umpteen hours of frustration. Or what other people would call frustration and I call it a learning experience—or a test of the will—or the struggle of man against the machine—or maybe the test of my will against the devious, temperamental and thwarting nature of computer software and glitches. Or it was me vs. Adobe Premiere. Most likely it was me vs. me.
To be continued…
Friday, August 19, 2005
Educational goals!
I had an interesting interview for a TA position this morning. It brought out a point that ails America. As mentioned earlier in fear and love blog, it seems the primary reason for failure of American public education system might be the "fear." There is fear that the ones with the most potential and promise might actually fulfill that potential, so the schools only meet the minimum neceassary, just in case the rest who are not the best and the brightest will not feel too bad about themselves. Similarly, there is fear to promote social good, just in case the "evil" also make use of the same facilities that can promote social harmony. No wonder, the students become apathetic and dwell in a morass of ignorance while the world continue to pay for the follies of the mighty ones. It is easier to rule a flock of sheep than pack of wolf. But the price paid for producing sheep will be beyond our imagination. The mighty shall fall when the they choose the convenience of ruling over the sheep rather than producing those who question their every move and are not afraid to let them know of their follies.
Monday, August 15, 2005
Bush's moral corruption
The deadline for the constitution for Iraq is MOnday midnight. The report is that Sunni demand will be sidelined to meet that goal--under the pressure from Bush administration. It is pretty amusing to see how the administration is downplaying its goals in Iraq of a full-fledged, prospering democracy so that they can claim "victory" and wimp out like a dog with its tail between its legs. There were many people who could have told this administration and neocons that democracy does not come from a graft but have to be rooted from cultural trnasformation. Apparently noone in the hawkish administration have learned anything about the cultural component of democracy. The price is misery to the world. But that is not all, Krugman in his opinion piece today aptly summarized Bush's agenda and approach to his governance:
"But the campaign for privatization provided an object lesson in how the administration sells its policies: by misrepresenting its goals, lying about the facts and abusing its control of government agencies. These were the same tactics used to sell both tax cuts and the Iraq war."
Was he successful in anything he attempted in his life? NO! Why would he be successful in being a president? But there is a deeper forces at work. American people are as much to blame for reelecting Bush. Being ignorant and arrogant, not using their good judgement about the lies being fed to them, taking for granted that the world had to tow to the American policy... Leadership is only a reflection of the people. Leadership is one of the most important components in a country's standings and course. Bad leadership--defined by ignorance, out of touch with reality, full of deception, unconcern for the people--world over had led those countries to their misery. Thanks to Bush and his hawkish cohorts, USA now joins that corrupt deceitful world of morally deprived leadership.
"But the campaign for privatization provided an object lesson in how the administration sells its policies: by misrepresenting its goals, lying about the facts and abusing its control of government agencies. These were the same tactics used to sell both tax cuts and the Iraq war."
Was he successful in anything he attempted in his life? NO! Why would he be successful in being a president? But there is a deeper forces at work. American people are as much to blame for reelecting Bush. Being ignorant and arrogant, not using their good judgement about the lies being fed to them, taking for granted that the world had to tow to the American policy... Leadership is only a reflection of the people. Leadership is one of the most important components in a country's standings and course. Bad leadership--defined by ignorance, out of touch with reality, full of deception, unconcern for the people--world over had led those countries to their misery. Thanks to Bush and his hawkish cohorts, USA now joins that corrupt deceitful world of morally deprived leadership.
Friday, August 12, 2005
Bush hiding behind bush (helicopter)
The news below shows the moral bankruptcy of a man who believes he has a mandate from God to impose his "foolhardy" will on the innocents and the world.
Bush ducks mother of dead soldier
President using helicopter to enter, leave Texas ranch to avoid confrontation
By ALAN FREEMAN
Friday, August 12, 2005 Updated at 3:45 AM EDT
From Friday's Globe and Mail
Washington — As the Iraq war continues to produce growing U.S. casualties and shrinking public support, President George W. Bush was forced yesterday to confront the protest of a grieving mother of a soldier killed in the war. But he still won't meet her.
As Cindy Sheehan camped out on a road leading to Mr. Bush's ranch near Crawford, Tex., for the sixth consecutive day, insisting she wants to speak to the President personally, Mr. Bush said he sympathizes with her plight, but rejected her call to pull the troops out of Iraq.
Ms. Sheehan's 24-year-old son, Casey, was killed in an ambush in Sadr City, Baghdad's sprawling Shia neighbourhood, last year, just five days after he arrived in Iraq.
"I begged him not to go," says Ms. Sheehan, 48, who travelled from her home in California to try to speak with Mr. Bush as he spends his summer vacation at his Prairie Chapel Ranch. "I said, 'I'll take you to Canada,' but he said, 'Mom, I have to go. It's my duty. My buddies are going.'
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"I don't believe his phony excuses for the war," Ms. Sheehan has said of the President. She said she believes the war is really about oil and making Mr. Bush's friends richer. "I want him to tell me why my son died."
Anti-war activists are converging on Crawford, eager to seize on Ms. Sheehan's newfound notoriety and telegenic appeal to get their message across.
On Saturday, Mr. Bush dispatched deputy national security adviser Stephen Hadley and deputy chief of staff Joe Hagin to meet with her to try to defuse the situation, but it just gave Ms. Sheehan more attention.
Mr. Hadley said that Mr. Bush is very sensitive to the losses being sustained by military families, pointing out that he has already met privately with the families of more than 200 of the fallen.
"He believes that they are engaged in a noble cause and it's terribly important for the safety and security of our country. And he respects her views, but respectfully disagrees."
Yesterday, Mr. Bush felt obliged to respond himself. "She feels strongly about her position and she has every right in the world to say what she believes," Mr. Bush told a news conference. "And I thought long and hard about her position. I've heard her position from others, which is: Get out of Iraq now. And it would be a mistake for the security of this country and the ability to lay the foundations for peace in the long run if we were to do so."
Mr. Bush said he grieves for every death in Iraq. "It breaks my heart to think about a family weeping over the loss of a loved one. I understand the anguish that some feel about the death that takes place."
Yet there was no sign Mr. Bush intends to meet Ms. Sheehan. In fact, there were reports he is travelling solely by helicopter when he leaves the ranch in an effort to avoid racing past the protester in a limousine.
"The President says he feels compassion for me," Ms. Sheehan said, "but the best way to show that compassion is by meeting with me and the other mothers and families who are here.
"All we're asking is that he sacrifice an hour out of his five-week vacation to talk to us before the next mother loses her son in Iraq."
Cal Jillson, a political scientist at Southern Methodist University in Dallas who has studied Mr. Bush's rise, said: "For him, meeting this woman face to face would be blinking. His whole game is to be confident and to appear never to doubt and never to waiver. It's this idea of determination."
And unlike government leaders in a parliamentary system who are challenged directly by their political opponents, Mr. Bush can easily shelter himself from such confrontations.
"He would not trust himself in a face-to-face meeting and neither would his staff. These guys like control," said Prof. Jillson, who added that Ms. Sheehan's protest in itself may not be that significant but it comes at a time when many Americans are reconsidering their views of the Iraq war.
Approval of Mr. Bush's handling of the conflict has dropped to as little as 34 per cent of people surveyed, according to a recent poll conducted for Newsweek magazine.
But only 33 per cent of Americans say the solution is withdrawing all troops, according to a recent Gallup Poll. Another 23 per cent say some of the troops should be withdrawn while 41 per cent say troop levels should remain the same or be increased.
Ms. Sheehan's protest comes at a particularly bloody time for U.S. troops in the war as roadside bombs aimed at patrolling soldiers have become increasingly sophisticated and lethal. According to Associated Press, at least 1,841 American troops have died in the war since March, 2003, including 37 since the beginning of August.
At his news conference, Mr. Bush said he strongly disagrees with those calling for troop withdrawal. "Pulling the troops out would send a terrible signal to the enemy ..... [that] the United States is weak and all we've got to do is intimidate and they'll leave."
Bush ducks mother of dead soldier
President using helicopter to enter, leave Texas ranch to avoid confrontation
By ALAN FREEMAN
Friday, August 12, 2005 Updated at 3:45 AM EDT
From Friday's Globe and Mail
Washington — As the Iraq war continues to produce growing U.S. casualties and shrinking public support, President George W. Bush was forced yesterday to confront the protest of a grieving mother of a soldier killed in the war. But he still won't meet her.
As Cindy Sheehan camped out on a road leading to Mr. Bush's ranch near Crawford, Tex., for the sixth consecutive day, insisting she wants to speak to the President personally, Mr. Bush said he sympathizes with her plight, but rejected her call to pull the troops out of Iraq.
Ms. Sheehan's 24-year-old son, Casey, was killed in an ambush in Sadr City, Baghdad's sprawling Shia neighbourhood, last year, just five days after he arrived in Iraq.
"I begged him not to go," says Ms. Sheehan, 48, who travelled from her home in California to try to speak with Mr. Bush as he spends his summer vacation at his Prairie Chapel Ranch. "I said, 'I'll take you to Canada,' but he said, 'Mom, I have to go. It's my duty. My buddies are going.'
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"I don't believe his phony excuses for the war," Ms. Sheehan has said of the President. She said she believes the war is really about oil and making Mr. Bush's friends richer. "I want him to tell me why my son died."
Anti-war activists are converging on Crawford, eager to seize on Ms. Sheehan's newfound notoriety and telegenic appeal to get their message across.
On Saturday, Mr. Bush dispatched deputy national security adviser Stephen Hadley and deputy chief of staff Joe Hagin to meet with her to try to defuse the situation, but it just gave Ms. Sheehan more attention.
Mr. Hadley said that Mr. Bush is very sensitive to the losses being sustained by military families, pointing out that he has already met privately with the families of more than 200 of the fallen.
"He believes that they are engaged in a noble cause and it's terribly important for the safety and security of our country. And he respects her views, but respectfully disagrees."
Yesterday, Mr. Bush felt obliged to respond himself. "She feels strongly about her position and she has every right in the world to say what she believes," Mr. Bush told a news conference. "And I thought long and hard about her position. I've heard her position from others, which is: Get out of Iraq now. And it would be a mistake for the security of this country and the ability to lay the foundations for peace in the long run if we were to do so."
Mr. Bush said he grieves for every death in Iraq. "It breaks my heart to think about a family weeping over the loss of a loved one. I understand the anguish that some feel about the death that takes place."
Yet there was no sign Mr. Bush intends to meet Ms. Sheehan. In fact, there were reports he is travelling solely by helicopter when he leaves the ranch in an effort to avoid racing past the protester in a limousine.
"The President says he feels compassion for me," Ms. Sheehan said, "but the best way to show that compassion is by meeting with me and the other mothers and families who are here.
"All we're asking is that he sacrifice an hour out of his five-week vacation to talk to us before the next mother loses her son in Iraq."
Cal Jillson, a political scientist at Southern Methodist University in Dallas who has studied Mr. Bush's rise, said: "For him, meeting this woman face to face would be blinking. His whole game is to be confident and to appear never to doubt and never to waiver. It's this idea of determination."
And unlike government leaders in a parliamentary system who are challenged directly by their political opponents, Mr. Bush can easily shelter himself from such confrontations.
"He would not trust himself in a face-to-face meeting and neither would his staff. These guys like control," said Prof. Jillson, who added that Ms. Sheehan's protest in itself may not be that significant but it comes at a time when many Americans are reconsidering their views of the Iraq war.
Approval of Mr. Bush's handling of the conflict has dropped to as little as 34 per cent of people surveyed, according to a recent poll conducted for Newsweek magazine.
But only 33 per cent of Americans say the solution is withdrawing all troops, according to a recent Gallup Poll. Another 23 per cent say some of the troops should be withdrawn while 41 per cent say troop levels should remain the same or be increased.
Ms. Sheehan's protest comes at a particularly bloody time for U.S. troops in the war as roadside bombs aimed at patrolling soldiers have become increasingly sophisticated and lethal. According to Associated Press, at least 1,841 American troops have died in the war since March, 2003, including 37 since the beginning of August.
At his news conference, Mr. Bush said he strongly disagrees with those calling for troop withdrawal. "Pulling the troops out would send a terrible signal to the enemy ..... [that] the United States is weak and all we've got to do is intimidate and they'll leave."
Saturday, August 06, 2005
Fools rush in...
where angels tread.
Remember the saying “Fools rush in where angels tread?” That is Iraq for you. This president who thinks that intelligent design is an alternate theory to evolution has proved beyond doubt that the higher one did not actually bestow him with much intelligence. But he is the president of the United States so the media is rightly interested in his views. As we all know, he believes he has a mandate from God so whatever he thinks and does is the right thing to do. That is why US is in a serious downhill slide in its so called misguided “war on terror.” Instead of winning the world on its side, which is absolutely necessary for this kind of effort, he has alienated the world against U.S.. He continues to pokes the world in the eyeball. If he had his way, he would take the world back to pre-renaissance enlightenment days.
When he meant Iraq would be democratic, did you actually believe it? It seems he demonstrates his “foolhardiness” even more successfully in Iraq. Of course, for him democratic Iraq means nothing more than a written constitution. That’s it. See, how they are already talking of precursor to another “mission accomplished” to withdraw substantial troops from Iraq. Glaringly, there is no choice—recruitment is dismal. Those willing to fight and die for Bush’s lies are dwindling by the minute.
But that is not the end of Bush and neocons’ agenda.
We are having a debate about teaching “intelligent design” as an alternate theory to Evolution? Dang! That intelligent design has obviously left some hole in Bush’s brain. But it would be interesting to see how this hacking of science will damage U.S. position further. There are ample opportunities for the up and coming civilization to consolidate their position. Everything about Bush and the conservative America smells regressive and ethnocentric world dominion views. That is not something that would help the world. Not by a long shot. Not always can the mighty one that falls can recuperate--especially when the critical point has been crossed. Let’s just hope that such a point has not been crossed yet.
Remember the saying “Fools rush in where angels tread?” That is Iraq for you. This president who thinks that intelligent design is an alternate theory to evolution has proved beyond doubt that the higher one did not actually bestow him with much intelligence. But he is the president of the United States so the media is rightly interested in his views. As we all know, he believes he has a mandate from God so whatever he thinks and does is the right thing to do. That is why US is in a serious downhill slide in its so called misguided “war on terror.” Instead of winning the world on its side, which is absolutely necessary for this kind of effort, he has alienated the world against U.S.. He continues to pokes the world in the eyeball. If he had his way, he would take the world back to pre-renaissance enlightenment days.
When he meant Iraq would be democratic, did you actually believe it? It seems he demonstrates his “foolhardiness” even more successfully in Iraq. Of course, for him democratic Iraq means nothing more than a written constitution. That’s it. See, how they are already talking of precursor to another “mission accomplished” to withdraw substantial troops from Iraq. Glaringly, there is no choice—recruitment is dismal. Those willing to fight and die for Bush’s lies are dwindling by the minute.
But that is not the end of Bush and neocons’ agenda.
We are having a debate about teaching “intelligent design” as an alternate theory to Evolution? Dang! That intelligent design has obviously left some hole in Bush’s brain. But it would be interesting to see how this hacking of science will damage U.S. position further. There are ample opportunities for the up and coming civilization to consolidate their position. Everything about Bush and the conservative America smells regressive and ethnocentric world dominion views. That is not something that would help the world. Not by a long shot. Not always can the mighty one that falls can recuperate--especially when the critical point has been crossed. Let’s just hope that such a point has not been crossed yet.
Comparing home and here
It is a good weekend for me. Tons of things to do for the last week of the second summer session. I am taking Diffusion of Innovation course with Dr. G. Armfield. It is a fascinating topic--much use in the real workd situation.
I talked ot my mother in Nepal. My $5 phone card gave me 14 minutes. That is a remarcable improvement over what used to be back in 1993 when I got here. But I paid $12.00 to a West Texas lady for a haircut--my first since January when I left Arizona. Come to think of it. I never paid more than Rs 10.00 for my haircut in Nepal. That was less than a US$ .25 at that time. It is also one of my favorite stories I tell folks in US. The other one is how much my rent was--about $20.00 for a two bedroom and a kitchen in a nice cement constructed home in Balkhu, Patan.
I talked ot my mother in Nepal. My $5 phone card gave me 14 minutes. That is a remarcable improvement over what used to be back in 1993 when I got here. But I paid $12.00 to a West Texas lady for a haircut--my first since January when I left Arizona. Come to think of it. I never paid more than Rs 10.00 for my haircut in Nepal. That was less than a US$ .25 at that time. It is also one of my favorite stories I tell folks in US. The other one is how much my rent was--about $20.00 for a two bedroom and a kitchen in a nice cement constructed home in Balkhu, Patan.
Tuesday, August 02, 2005
A Shining Example: Everest of Apple
Today, I wrote to the Everest of Apples charity in Japan, which is a unique effort to utilize community to help another community. Basically, it is designing a community-based charity model in Japan and helping community-based educatinal and development model in Hetauda, Nepal. Here is a little introduction on them:
"Everest of Apples was founded in 2002 as a nonsectarian charitable organization by the JETs of Aomori Prefecture, Japan. Everest of Apples (E of A) focuses its efforts primarily on the Prajwal School, a unique nonprofit primary school in Nepal.
E of A suppports the Prajwal School in close cooperation with NEST, a nonprofit organization in Nepal. We chose to work with NEST because of their proven commitment to addressing such important issues as gender inequality, high illiteracy rates, and poor educational standards in general. On a very basic level, E of A and NEST share both the belief that education is a right for all, and the vision of a more equitable future.
Our support of the Prajwal School is funded entirely by charitable donations, the majority of which come from members of the JET Program residing in Aomori Prefecture, Japan."
CHILDREN! EDUCATION! EQUALITY
What a wonderful vision to look forward to and work for!
"Everest of Apples was founded in 2002 as a nonsectarian charitable organization by the JETs of Aomori Prefecture, Japan. Everest of Apples (E of A) focuses its efforts primarily on the Prajwal School, a unique nonprofit primary school in Nepal.
E of A suppports the Prajwal School in close cooperation with NEST, a nonprofit organization in Nepal. We chose to work with NEST because of their proven commitment to addressing such important issues as gender inequality, high illiteracy rates, and poor educational standards in general. On a very basic level, E of A and NEST share both the belief that education is a right for all, and the vision of a more equitable future.
Our support of the Prajwal School is funded entirely by charitable donations, the majority of which come from members of the JET Program residing in Aomori Prefecture, Japan."
CHILDREN! EDUCATION! EQUALITY
What a wonderful vision to look forward to and work for!
Monday, August 01, 2005
Loneliness vs. Solitude
Loneliness
1.the state of being alone in solitary isolation [syn: solitariness]
2.sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned [syn: forlornness, desolation]
3.a disposition toward being alone [syn: aloneness, lonesomeness, solitude]
Solitude
1.The state or quality of being alone or remote from others.
2.A lonely or secluded place.
As we see, dictionary seems to place loneliness and solitude as synonyms, hence an equal footing. I argue that there is something deeper and more fundamental difference between these to states. They are not the same.
Here is my take. Loneliness and solitude are related to spiritual state. Loneliness is something one experiences because a person feels a spiritual disconnect with the higher one. In this disconnect, one can feel that there is no one else present, although spirit can never be alone.
Solitude is a state a soul wants because it already knows its connection to the higher spirit. Therefore, the spirit purposefully seeks solitude in order to escape from the cacophony of life to be one with the eternal source of life.
1.the state of being alone in solitary isolation [syn: solitariness]
2.sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned [syn: forlornness, desolation]
3.a disposition toward being alone [syn: aloneness, lonesomeness, solitude]
Solitude
1.The state or quality of being alone or remote from others.
2.A lonely or secluded place.
As we see, dictionary seems to place loneliness and solitude as synonyms, hence an equal footing. I argue that there is something deeper and more fundamental difference between these to states. They are not the same.
Here is my take. Loneliness and solitude are related to spiritual state. Loneliness is something one experiences because a person feels a spiritual disconnect with the higher one. In this disconnect, one can feel that there is no one else present, although spirit can never be alone.
Solitude is a state a soul wants because it already knows its connection to the higher spirit. Therefore, the spirit purposefully seeks solitude in order to escape from the cacophony of life to be one with the eternal source of life.
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