Topic started by VK (@ 216.119.249.166) on Thu Jan 24 19:37:11 .
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Lonely in the crowd

The land of opportunity. America. New York City. The world’s greatest city.
Those huge sky scrapers, the pretty women and the even prettier cars. The people who make decisions affecting the lives of people all over the world, the crowds, and the beautiful roads. ahhh its heaven on earth.

Those words are music to the ears of Indians dreaming about making it big in the USA…
So many of us aspire to be there, and to do ‘it’.

Even I descended with the same hopes. Arrived unfortunately after the WTC Plane crash...
Like all the others before me, even I went through the long ordeal of getting a visa, the day I got it, I felt like a Man on the Moon.
Came here to succeed, make money. Money, a relative term, we do not know how much is enough. We could be successful back home too, but it might take a long time to be really rich, so we come here, or some of us go to countries where their currency value is much higher than ours.

There are so many people In New York, people from all over the world, walking, talking, running into the subway to board trains which will take them into another equally crowded place.
Everyone has a destination.
Nobody says anything to us, nobody does anything to us, but still we feel lonely in the crowd now...
At least I feel lonely in the crowd. Is this my destination?

We get up, go to work, come back home, cook and go to sleep. Where is the life we had back home?
aahh! What I would give to have the rice, rasam and chicken curry my mom makes...
We leave everything, friends, parents, and the loved ones...and come here to make money, in terms of rupees.

We don't make much in terms of dollars, only when it is converted, does it look like a lot for us.
All of us don't have great jobs, but we still hang on...will hang on. For the lure of money is more than the pain of leaving behind your loved ones...

Lay offs? We’ll still hang on. Bad economy? We’ll still hang on. We’ll hang on forever I guess...
We see so many Indians making ends meet with small jobs, well educated Indians working in places they wouldn't even dream about back home...
Why? What for?
Success back home is valued in terms of the money we have, when we return....

Does it matter? Yes it does, I wouldn't be here otherwise...

Responses:

• From: ec (@ bryant.rz-berlin.mpg.de) on: Mon Jan 28 07:15:42
  
  Yes VK, what you tell here is felt by many. But what to do? Every life has its associated inconveniences. It is better to understand and accept the reality. Try to concentrate on the things we can do well now within our reach, so that we are satisfied about ourselves. This is the only way we can keep life going; for us to be cheerful.
  
  
• From: sr (@ 203.200.97.212) on: Tue Jan 29 02:12:17
  
  Soul touching work. Makes one realize what he or she is losing to attain the so called luxury. Hope days will change when no indian youth shall leave the shores of the great land for the sake of living and the scenario changes wherein we will have people from us keep flooding in to our land.
  
  
• From: sri (@ dialup-4.242.168.52.dial1.seattle1.level3.net) on: Mon Nov 1 22:04:21
  
  it is really something everyone has to think what is that we are earning missing everyone money can we get back what we miss the days we miss,really not we make a decent amount but is it worth the struggle and missing we face every sec missing our loved ones?i really dont know if what i have done is right :-)
  
  
• From: krishna (@ 202-177-149-76.sify.net) on: Mon Dec 6 00:32:46 EST 2004
  
  Hi VK
  from:krishna_2046@yahoo.com
  In life, if you want to get something extra, you have to lose something.
  When you want to earn some extra money, you have to lose the nearness of your dear and near.
  That is life.
  
  
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• From: Swapna (@ ptil-243-175-16-ind.primus-india.net) on: Fri Jan 7 05:49:16 EST 2005
  
  Hi Men ,
  
  Just think for a minute ....... we need money , a lot of money .... atlast for what ? to be happy , a real happiness , home food , smile in known faces while walking on the road , get anchored with poojas and holidays , festival eve , still so many ....... u want to njoy this only when u become granies and see ur grand child njoying..... this is the time to live life , just think , these lovable days of youngness will never return back , if possible make ur self content and come back home and feel cherished. if u have got used to this and njoy Pongal , deevali , hanuman jayanthy , kerishna jayanthi only thru net (some don't even know the dates of these festivals....) carry on , with less respect and dollors getting converted into money .
  
  
  
• From: swapna (@ ptil-243-175-16-ind.primus-india.net) on: Fri Jan 7 05:49:48 EST 2005
  
  Cont ....
  
  Take care , India looks dirty , some time stupid , some times silly , funny politics , but i'm happy , i love INDIA , i have got gud s/w companies , i earn enuf to content the loans (if u close by an year , i take 3 or 4) ,travel in thodakka train governed by lallu and vist home atleast twice in a month , and ..... i'm happy and content.
  
  Sorry for you all who miss all your family and sweet stupid country.
  
  Bye.
  
  

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