Planning to Live Alone is a Bad Idea Any Day

A news item popped up while I was onto something. It was about some actress who was dead. Actors dying young these days does not shock us anymore, due to the excessive exposure to media and particularly related to Sushant death case. Anyways. Her name was Arya Banerjee.

I checked out the news. Found that she was an actress of only 33, She was the daughter of late sitarist Pandit Nikhil Banerjee. She had a master’s degree in classical music and she worked as a model before moving on to acting. She had done a few movies and she was currently living alone in her apartment in Kolkata.  

According to news reports, she was suffering from an ailment. But she lived alone along with her pet. She ordered food from restaurants daily. Last night, she had some food delivered to her flat, she ate it and fell on the floor and died due to her health problem. She only had her pet (perhaps dog) at home and hence no one knew about her situation. Only next morning when the housemaid came, she realized that the flat was locked from the inside and hence alerted neighbors and this led to the discovery of this tragedy.

I started typing the title of this blog post on Google and was shocked to see that after I typed “Planning to live”, it showed “alone” as the top ranked item. 

If it is not due to some cookies on my browser, it is an alarming trend. It tells that a lot of people are planning to live alone. And perhaps they do not realize the risks in their plan.

It is possible that Arya Banerjee’s unfortunate death could have been prevented if there was any other person in her house. Human beings are very fragile. Life may appear very easy, but in the words of a philosopher, given its fragility, life is a "miracle". Living alone is taking a huge risk. May be in the good days, everything will be fine. But if one is sick or in case of an accident, a small problem can snowball into a life threatening situation.

Let Arya Banerjee’s death serve as a warning to all those who are planning or thinking about living alone. Humans are social animals and we are best fitted for living along with our family, for our own safety and wellbeing. 

Om Shanti.  

- Rahul Tiwary