Oh, you are going to US to do your masters, how lucky you are? That’s the immediate response you get from friends and families when you break the news about your admission and visa being approved.
Yes, lucky I am while like 100 million others don’t get this privilege to move out or afford a quality education in a respectable and well recognized institution. Hell Yeah!! President Obama stays 10 blocks away, World Bank (It’s a big deal in the developing world like India to talk about the World Bank) is like 6 blocks away. Lucky indeed !!
An empty mind is a devils workshop, a proverb that I learnt during high school. Dad said, being young you should always think act constantly work for your own development. I mean seriously, can a human brain endure the same thing continuously for a sustained period of time. The answer is No, unless you are a scientist with no life except for the love of his/her life being the four corners of the lab. Well I am writing this blog cause my mind is empty, but hey I am still a nice guy not the devil.
Well, in India children don’t move out, like in US where they move out say after 18 (well that’s what I have heard through movies blah blah) but well mostly I have seen friends moving out for studies which is kind of natural. The girls in India get married and move out to stay with her husband and her in laws while the boy stays home gets married and brings in his wife to stay with his family.
Why I named this blog Saturday, Sunday?
What as a student, what would you do on a Saturday or Sunday? Go out party, drink, party and drink again and then what. Go to church do your laundry clean your room and then the day ends. Well honestly it sucks to do this for a whole year; you need someone close by. Someone means that which means everything for you, your parents, brothers and sisters. You can’t argue with your room mates but you can fight with your siblings and still eat dinner together as if nothing happened. You need a motivation for to look forward for those long weekends and those big Christmas break. You need your relatives (well even if you hate them, they still pay for your food and drinks and give you a homely feeling). Friends are awesome, companionship is awesome but you need your parents to cook for you, do that smelly laundry for you while you relax as a king/queen in your house. You really want to wake up that “One Day” where you don’t have to worry about making your breakfast and think about lunch or dinner.
Well honestly, I love America and I really never want to go back again, my city is too crowded for me but then the other part really scares the hell out of you. Like yesterday when a guy in the metro said, “Hey you have an accent, where do you come from” This accent is going to stick with me forever no matter how I roll my tongue to pronounce that perfect R’s. Will you be accepted in the society, a brown kid will always be brown and I will still be good at cricket than baseball (well I pulled up this cricket line because I don’t want the blog to be too serious).
But yes family plays a big part in your life decision, money is really really really important but family is more important in this like 50 or 60 years that we are in this planet earth. No matter how magnificent the Shenandoah’s mountain stands, it can never over shadow the love your parents shower on you. A big hug is all that is required to melt down the anger or even loneliness of a Saturday, Sunday
Blahhh I need my drink !!!
50 or 60 years? My goodness, I think, here in America, those are still considered Middle Aged.
ReplyDeleteSo, Jeet, how did you overcome this homesickness when home was/is so far away?
As a character on one of my favorite television shows once said, and I am paraphrasing:
"There is nothing wrong with being a little homesick. It means you have come from a happy home. ... Many people would envy that."
Well to get over homesickness, you just kill time and sleep over it.(and stop watching bollywood family movies :)). I have been away from home from 1o years now, i can kind of handle it, but then I have mine own days when I want to face it rather than fight it.
ReplyDeleteI like that last line of yours. :) :) :)
Ah yes, those Bollywood family films, they get to me every time. ;p
ReplyDeleteBut seriously, I know what you mean!
I like that last line too. That's why I posted it. :D