As Rhythm Beats Through My Ears

     Are human-beings really social animals? Nowadays, I am doing something that I do only four times a year - completely concentrating on my studies. When I try to concentrate, I need to be alone within a certain small space. As I share the room with two room-mates, I make a semi-isolated place by hanging a blanket over my desk, so that there is a space between the two blanket-curtains wide enough for only one person to sit inbetween. Normally, I would just sit in that space for two to three hours without talking to my roommates or even caring about them. When I realized how I was seperated from the rest of the world, I thought, 'I feel as I am the only existence floating around in the universe. Yet, I do not feel lonely or frightened at all. I rather feel as if I were in another dimension in which I was the all-mighty being.
     Listening to music is a similar experience by which you could feel as if you were isolated in your own world. Actually, this is why we listen to music; we want to stay away from the rest of the world. Once, I was walking down the stairs at school during a break-time while listening to music through the earphones. Around me, other students were walking in hurry as I was walking to the beat of 'Loving You,' a saxophone tune played by Kenny G.. I walked lightly with the speed one third as fast as the others. I looked at the hurrying blurs of the other dimension as if I were mocking at them. To be honest, I did mock at them, thinking, 'What are they doing, living in the old master's society?' So, are we social animals or not?

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