This hindi poem ‘खुद से दोस्ती’ draws its inspiration from self-love, which I believe is the scarcest form of love going around. More and more people take less and less time to get comfortable with self. Our mind these days is constantly triggered by the content we consume and we have become so habitual that now it’s difficult for us to sit idle 5 minutes without any content stimulation. Our attention span is getting shorter and our comfort with self and silence is waning rapidly.
This hindi poem emphasizes that whether we like it or not, we will need to spend a lot of time with ourselves, hence it’s better to be-friend our self and learn to indulge in self-love. Here it goes:
English Rendition:
Befriend thyself o wanderer, you will need to spend a lot of time with yourself
after all, everyone around is busy with their struggle to decode life, learn to accept that
sometimes, friends end up hurting us, so we try to hide our shortcomings from even our friends
life these days, is uncertain, and we are bound to lose our loved ones on this journey
although we travel the world, yet, in the end, we come back home to ourselves
Befriend thyself o wanderer, you will need to spend a lot of time with yourself
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