Les Miserables.....Erakkuraya Naragam

Separation: This is imaginably the most savage word any language can offer. I understand there could be different forms of “Separation”. Separation form ones own country, separation form ones family, separation from ones friends, separation from love, and some times it is also separation from certain things, or concepts or activities…

And there are likely to be many more forms of it, that I am unaware….. I remember having read somewhere (source oblivious) that separation from ones country is the most brutal of all forms, well; I survived it for three years…yes, difficult, it was. Some times I feel great that this country called me back, but conceivably it was the underlying feeling of separation that did, called me (back). (Or was it that Germany returned me or rather drove me away….naaaa I think the former sentence is the right one.)

*Six Degrees of Seperation

Nevertheless, separation in any form results in misery. And the loss of anything is greater only in its absence. So how does one deal with separation. This is one question that is haunting my soul, my entire self, swirling constantly around me, threatening to stay unless answered.

Separation tears me asunder, it shreds my soul and rips me apart into pieces and makes me feel empty, despite of the munificence. Thus rendering life pointless, like you can see the whole world shrink to a point and then disappear into nothingness. “Erakkuraya Naragam/ Almost hell” (the Sujatha aficionado that I am!).


It feels like that Life is just roughly perfect, but just the just the lack of that someone or something that nullifies your life to a mere Zero, a goose egg, a nix. Nothing but nothingness, an unspoken vacuum, a complete emptiness, almost like the dark spot of the universe. Life becomes a sequel of “Les Miserables”.

So, coming back to the same aching question: How does one deal with it? Just HOW? May be we could attempt some crazy things to keep our spirits up. Talking about spirits, the right kind of spirits could help keep your spirits right…hehe ok I guess this is getting a little too spiritual..hehe (pun intended)

What are the very many ways, to put up this Phase of life? I wonder!!!! . After all this I would gather the guts to say: life is just good, otherwise.