Feeling lonely on campus after being disappointed by friends? Acharya Prashant explains why loneliness should not push you into accepting the wrong company or remaining attached to relationships that pull you away from what is right. One person’s wrongdoing does not justify condemning everyone, nor does friendship mean supporting a friend in what is wrong. Learn why the right company is the company that helps you move toward truth rather than merely giving you temporary relief from loneliness.
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Questioner: Acharya ji, I am Preeti, third year MBBS student at Maulana Medical College. So, my question is, how do I deal with people? Whenever I invest my time and emotions, after some time I realize that people are not the same as I understood them, and they make me realize that I was nothing to them. So, I started to end up ties with everybody, but this lands me again alone, feeling alone in the campus. So, how do I deal with it?
Acharya Prashant: The campus has a lot of people. Surely you have not known all of them or even a significant proportion of them. It's with certain individuals that you have had a certain experience, and you're generalizing it. Right? So, first of all, please see that your choices are not limited. And secondly, if people are not available in flesh and blood, what prevents you from being with the books of the greats and their works and their movies?
Why must we stand beholden to the tyranny of the immediate? If in your immediate circle you do not find worthy contenders, there is no need to allow nonsense to enter your life. Be with great books, watch great movies, travel, develop great hobbies, watch plays, participate in plays, take up a social cause, invest yourself in it. There is so much more to be done rather than indulging yourself in gossip with some unworthy fellow on the campus.
