No One

Have you ever travelled on your own to a town or place where no one knows you? The feeling can be quite refreshing and liberating. This I found especially so when walking along a crowded street in a foreign country where no one bothers to take notice of you, say like in KL or in cosmopolitan London. As you mingle with the crowd you feel like you are a floating "nobody". There is a sense of freedom you will not feel at home . You are free from the need to be who you have to be. For instance you can just walk out without make up because you don't have to look good for someone you may meet. Maybe because you are also on holiday there is also less self preoccupation thoughts too. You are unknown and no one cares two hoots whether you are a good or bad mother, wife, sister, daughter or employee. As long as you don't walk into a luxury store you need not worry whether you look rich enough to buy the items on display. In short there is no image to uphold and no identity to cling onto. This suspension of the egoistic self is quite uplifting.


Philosopher Sartre once said "I recognise I am as the other sees me", " I see myself because somebody sees me".

Most times we feel secure living with an established basis of who we are, but now and then we can be struck by an awareness that we could be someone else or no one perhaps.