Sitting here in front of my Lap top in an alien land , makes me cherish every moment of life spent in India ... Its been just 20 days since I arrived to UK , the boredom has already caught up. Though this is only my second visit to UK ... doesn't cheer me up anymore.
With No honking sounds of vehicles, traffic jams , cricket loving children and old fanatics on every road and street, Bollwood or Regional woods music flaunting all over the place ...things which are so much one so used to in India ... makes this country looks far more a dull place to live in.
No means to say the people here are bad or place is not likeable... this country side town Cirencester is green and one feels you are part of history as you walk around the town with buildings from 16th , 17th n 18th century appearing at every nook and corner. Strangers, mostly old men greet u as u walk across them making u feel that there is some one who will at-least share a smile with you...
While in India ... life is happening... there is so much of rush and so much of noise, sometimes one gets lost in them and forget all other problems of life. Its seems sometimes that everyday is a struggle for your existence , and to prove yourselves of your worth. The so called major problems of India like roads, energy, water etc have in a way kept ourselves so engrossed that we don't feel restless for we have a mission at our hand ... to build India ... to make it the next super power.
On the same hand people in UK or in so called developed countries feel sometimes goal less in life . Everything is organized , procedures of life are laid down and people just need to follow them. It's more or less a mechanical life out here. The most disturbing of all, are the growing nature of violence among the teens here... Kids less than ten resort to anti social behavior for small reasons. It seems there is a considerable amount of kids under ten who have criminal records but can't be prosecuted as law doesn't permit anyone below 10 to be prosecuted , A recent judgment proseccuted a gang of boy in their early teens , one just 12 for murdering an old man with bat , sticks and stones... Reason that the old man disallowed them to play in that place or something like that. With family values and religious faith on the down run in this country ... the youth here are getting less bounded by the moral values of the socitey.
That's the reason , why i feel so much more happy about my country, though there is so much mad rush about success, career and money among our Indian youth, we still enjoy our festivals, our cultures, our traditions and more importantly our families ... Probably because we live for each other and not just for ourselves .... That's basically the biggest difference between India and other so called developed countries... In developed countries one lives his life for one's own self , for one's own joy and success... which by all means is not everlasting ... In India one's joy triples when one sees success of his parents, siblings or his life partner ... I suppose that joy is one which is everlasting .... and I hope so will be my country ...
Miss u ... India
Karthik
With No honking sounds of vehicles, traffic jams , cricket loving children and old fanatics on every road and street, Bollwood or Regional woods music flaunting all over the place ...things which are so much one so used to in India ... makes this country looks far more a dull place to live in.
No means to say the people here are bad or place is not likeable... this country side town Cirencester is green and one feels you are part of history as you walk around the town with buildings from 16th , 17th n 18th century appearing at every nook and corner. Strangers, mostly old men greet u as u walk across them making u feel that there is some one who will at-least share a smile with you...
While in India ... life is happening... there is so much of rush and so much of noise, sometimes one gets lost in them and forget all other problems of life. Its seems sometimes that everyday is a struggle for your existence , and to prove yourselves of your worth. The so called major problems of India like roads, energy, water etc have in a way kept ourselves so engrossed that we don't feel restless for we have a mission at our hand ... to build India ... to make it the next super power.
On the same hand people in UK or in so called developed countries feel sometimes goal less in life . Everything is organized , procedures of life are laid down and people just need to follow them. It's more or less a mechanical life out here. The most disturbing of all, are the growing nature of violence among the teens here... Kids less than ten resort to anti social behavior for small reasons. It seems there is a considerable amount of kids under ten who have criminal records but can't be prosecuted as law doesn't permit anyone below 10 to be prosecuted , A recent judgment proseccuted a gang of boy in their early teens , one just 12 for murdering an old man with bat , sticks and stones... Reason that the old man disallowed them to play in that place or something like that. With family values and religious faith on the down run in this country ... the youth here are getting less bounded by the moral values of the socitey.
That's the reason , why i feel so much more happy about my country, though there is so much mad rush about success, career and money among our Indian youth, we still enjoy our festivals, our cultures, our traditions and more importantly our families ... Probably because we live for each other and not just for ourselves .... That's basically the biggest difference between India and other so called developed countries... In developed countries one lives his life for one's own self , for one's own joy and success... which by all means is not everlasting ... In India one's joy triples when one sees success of his parents, siblings or his life partner ... I suppose that joy is one which is everlasting .... and I hope so will be my country ...
Miss u ... India
Karthik
