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I like this silence. All my life I have been searching for this silence. No more of the disturbing city life, No more of the disturbing village life.

No more of the continuous empty words of people. I am finally free. Free to do what i like .as long as i am bound by time. This too shall end. But I must enjoy it while it lasts.

I would sleep, endlessly. I would sleep for two, nay, ten days at a stretch. I like not being disturbed by sound. I can live on my own, I don't need someone else, to exist. I deny that man is a social animal...because he is not. All we need is food. Food is our primary requirement. We need food, we don't need people.

The presence of another brings in an ‘other’, an influence, something that hampers the way we live by causing undue hindrances, by altering our thought patterns. The other is not important, because the other is not me. He cannot think like me, he cannot be like me. He cannot see things through my perspective. Therefore he can’t really make an intelligent conversation.

So, it is just food that I need. And I have paid for the food with my time. Therefore I don't really need anything else. OR better still, anyone else. Deafening silence? No...silence can never be deafening. Silence is peace. Silence is what a city dweller needs most. Silence is what I have; longed for - Where I can be calm; where my heart beats to a different drummer; where I breathe freely and to myself.

I don't need no dogs, I don't need no birds, I don't need anything, to exist. It is only then can i be whatever I want to be; whenever I want to be. For then, time won’t matter. Time would no longer affect me. I can be whatever I want to be without really bothering to be something I am not...Or for that matter be what I don't want to be. What a beautiful freedom that would be....devoid of everything, still having everything.

Finally I have escaped from the time bound reality, I have created my own reality, I have escaped into nothingness. I can now rest, in peace.