One of my friend has recently come back from US after staying there for a good two and a half years. After coming back, she started cribbing about everything, pollution to start with , traffic, power cuts, vegetables, fruits, facilities and life in general. I was a little pissed off initially to hear her crib cause it's just 2 years that she had been in US and has been in Bangalore all her life. Nothing new that she has been cribbing about, all the problem have been existant from long long time.
Now that I've put it in writing, it hurts more. Why haven't these issues been addressed in these 2 or more years? Why is the quality of life only degrading by the day?
The everyday struggles include power cuts, limited water supplies, increasing prices and traffic and also the pollution.
You curse yourself for settling in India when you are in the middle of your bath and you are left with half a bucket of simmering hot water and with no cold water supply
( The vice versa would've been still better to deal with). You have water but still can't use it. As useless as it gets.
These everyday struggles compell me to think if I have done the right thing by settling back in India, may be I would've had a better life if I settled abroad like most of my friends. But then these thoughts vanish the time I see my daughter play with her grandparents, aunts and uncles, cousins, visits places attached to my childhood memories, has a similar childhood as her parents and also when I meet my parents when I feel like(which is more than twice a year) and when they need me and talk to my mom in the same time zone. Being there for your parents when they need you, celebrating festivals together, spending liesure time with them is definitely something that can be achieved if you are here.
I am happy for the guys who have settled abroad, living a better quality life(if not a better life), away from the chaos, away from the loved ones and the lovely food(a general observation that its only the food that Indians settled in US miss the most and have a long list of cravings whenever they visit home )
Now that I've put it in writing, it hurts more. Why haven't these issues been addressed in these 2 or more years? Why is the quality of life only degrading by the day?
The everyday struggles include power cuts, limited water supplies, increasing prices and traffic and also the pollution.
You curse yourself for settling in India when you are in the middle of your bath and you are left with half a bucket of simmering hot water and with no cold water supply
( The vice versa would've been still better to deal with). You have water but still can't use it. As useless as it gets.
These everyday struggles compell me to think if I have done the right thing by settling back in India, may be I would've had a better life if I settled abroad like most of my friends. But then these thoughts vanish the time I see my daughter play with her grandparents, aunts and uncles, cousins, visits places attached to my childhood memories, has a similar childhood as her parents and also when I meet my parents when I feel like(which is more than twice a year) and when they need me and talk to my mom in the same time zone. Being there for your parents when they need you, celebrating festivals together, spending liesure time with them is definitely something that can be achieved if you are here.
I am happy for the guys who have settled abroad, living a better quality life(if not a better life), away from the chaos, away from the loved ones and the lovely food(a general observation that its only the food that Indians settled in US miss the most and have a long list of cravings whenever they visit home )
