Its been so long since I last posted anything on my blog, I had even forgotten that I had a blog. Its good to read some stuff that you have written few years back. You can always compare and see how your thinking was and how its changed.
The last time I wrote something I was still living in India and had not moved to UK yet. Wow it seems that the time has just flown by. Its going to be almost 5 years since I have moved here but seems like I have been living here for a very long time now but saying that I do miss India a lot.
There are so many things that have happened in past 5 years, I have learnt a lot, my racing dream kicked off though still in very early stages but I am making progress even though its small steps. There are so many questions that keep popping up in my mind every other day, in general about life, dreams, politics, women, just so many of them. Its much easier to be a kid than been an adult.
Its been quiet a bit of a change for me since I have been here and there are still certain things that I dont understand and trying to work them out. Growing up in India all you cared about was whether you got good food, a small ground to play cricket with your friends and your school work. We didnt care about fashion, looks or girls. We of course could not afford any of that growing up but saying that me and lot of my friends were very happy with our lives. Our summer days were mostly spent on grounds playing cricket in scorching heat. Our evenings were spent talking about our future lives and sports.
Since I have been here it feels like we in India specially the lower middle class which actually can be classified as poor in western terms which I dont agree with live a completely different lives.There are still certain classes in India upper middle class or rich people who have exposure to the different cultures specially the westerns lifestyle. Having grown up in lower middle class where most of my friends belong as well, we all had different views and ideas about how life was.
The reason I bought up this topic was because even after living here for 5 years which I know is not a lot but considering I moved here when I was 22 which usually are the formative years in most of their lives, it does seem to be a lot of time, I still feel like an alien to the western culture.
I am still trying to figure out whether there is actually true friendship that exists here ? whether there is any true love that exists here ? whether there is actually any inner peace that exists here ?
With all the comforts you have here, all the money, all the flashy things, does it really matter if the none of the above things exist ?
I dont know the answer yet and neither am I saying that it doesnt exist, may be I just havent met a lot of right people yet ?
The last time I wrote something I was still living in India and had not moved to UK yet. Wow it seems that the time has just flown by. Its going to be almost 5 years since I have moved here but seems like I have been living here for a very long time now but saying that I do miss India a lot.
There are so many things that have happened in past 5 years, I have learnt a lot, my racing dream kicked off though still in very early stages but I am making progress even though its small steps. There are so many questions that keep popping up in my mind every other day, in general about life, dreams, politics, women, just so many of them. Its much easier to be a kid than been an adult.
Its been quiet a bit of a change for me since I have been here and there are still certain things that I dont understand and trying to work them out. Growing up in India all you cared about was whether you got good food, a small ground to play cricket with your friends and your school work. We didnt care about fashion, looks or girls. We of course could not afford any of that growing up but saying that me and lot of my friends were very happy with our lives. Our summer days were mostly spent on grounds playing cricket in scorching heat. Our evenings were spent talking about our future lives and sports.
Since I have been here it feels like we in India specially the lower middle class which actually can be classified as poor in western terms which I dont agree with live a completely different lives.There are still certain classes in India upper middle class or rich people who have exposure to the different cultures specially the westerns lifestyle. Having grown up in lower middle class where most of my friends belong as well, we all had different views and ideas about how life was.
The reason I bought up this topic was because even after living here for 5 years which I know is not a lot but considering I moved here when I was 22 which usually are the formative years in most of their lives, it does seem to be a lot of time, I still feel like an alien to the western culture.
I am still trying to figure out whether there is actually true friendship that exists here ? whether there is any true love that exists here ? whether there is actually any inner peace that exists here ?
With all the comforts you have here, all the money, all the flashy things, does it really matter if the none of the above things exist ?
I dont know the answer yet and neither am I saying that it doesnt exist, may be I just havent met a lot of right people yet ?
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Amazing blog and very interesting stuff you got here! I definitely learned a lot from reading through some of your earlier posts as well and decided to drop a comment on this one!
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