Remind me please..
why did we move away from India? What brought us here? Fresher air? More space? What does one mean by better quality of life? How does the quality of life get any better without family and friends? Friends. Where are they? I don't even know what it means to hang out any more. Adda is merely a nostalgic sounding word.
No really, remind me, why did we move away,again? It is over a year since I met my parents. I feel dead. I feel like I exist and live only virtually. There is no real me anywhere. I don;t really live any more.
Why did we choose a life devoid of friends and family? The greenery is getting to me. The spotlessness of this place is nauseous.
I quit. Take me back. I want to be home.
No really, remind me, why did we move away,again? It is over a year since I met my parents. I feel dead. I feel like I exist and live only virtually. There is no real me anywhere. I don;t really live any more.
Why did we choose a life devoid of friends and family? The greenery is getting to me. The spotlessness of this place is nauseous.
I quit. Take me back. I want to be home.
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Many of us choose to stay away from adda (back home) as it's so insipid with overdose of it...call on family and they not around...noise, pollution (running around hospitals almost every 15 days), corruption, bad infrastructures that lead to loss of time, puppets who are dancing to the tunes of this bad bad bad 3rd world country!!!!
Errr...a short round trip ticket will help you get over your blues...trust me...
:) hope you get back to yourself soon!
Cheer up! A big bear hug...
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You seem very low and frustrated. Take is easy. Indians move for economic reasons - to make more money - that is it.
Initially it is tough but then it becomes tough to back to India once you are used to life style in your new world.
Where do you live in Sydney?
And yeah, I get it. Sucks being without loved ones around. Hope things get better soon.
Choley aaie.
Hug.
I've stopped bitching about Kolkata, ever since I spent one lonely, frustrating, jobless bitter winter in New Jersey, USA, in 2008-9.
Try a vacation, if possible.
I was just browsing through the blog world when I stumbled upon your blog.
What you wrote completely resonates with me! I have been living in the UK for the last two years and the sheer loneliness of this life is so draining!
I am fed up with online relationship and telephone chats...I want to see my people, touch them, hold them, hug them...smell the air (however polluted it maybe), be glad of a traffic jam, and revel in the chaos and the confusion...
But then like you I remind myself of the reasons I am in London and try and make peace with my life!
Tomorrow is a better day!
Suchi
Great warm love and a big hug from your teacher. Hang in there, KG. If it's any consolation, I was stamped "accompanying wife" on my passport in 1990 and survived three years in the grey, wet, damp and cold of Leeds, Yorkshire, England.
I have narrated in my blog how I survived by creating my own world. I had my wife (who was doing a PhD) and a three year-old daughter (who I had come to take care of).
Slowly and painfully, I extracted a few precious friends (local and of Indian origin) from the chaotic mess of racist garbage that Leeds was. Every one of them are friends today too. And with a little help from friends like them, I finally pulled through and survived.
I was a young 39 when I left India for England and became an old 42 when I returned in three years!!!
I am writing an introspective on reaching the age of 60 on 5 March 2011. I shall write at length about this sad and lost part of my life and, having written it, I shall dedicate that section to you, dear KG, knowing full well that you have it in you to hang in there and --- survive.
Peace and love,
- Joe.
But I guess one can't do anything !
Maybe we should hang out :) A bottle of wine would solve everything ;)
We didn't come to Australia for economic reasons. The reasons were entirely different. Lack of family life in India was the first reason. we never were together as a family. we led busy lives, constant work stress, lack of weekend de-stressing options. 'Balanced life' is a difficult thing to attain in my lovely India. come to think of it, when in India, despite having so many friends, we never did meet up because the very thought of driving through the traffic to go a 3-4 km distance was a nightmarish experience. Now sitting here i feel like doing all of it. I'm willing to sit for hours in the traffic to meet that one friend.
Yes, the grass is indeed greener on the other side. :)
thanks much fellas. And those who are feeling as blue as I am, a big virtual hug your way. We'll pull through this, we will!:)
seriously, why are we here?
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