I have heard many of my friends say you are so strong and you are so focused. Two weeks back I was as excited as any normal person about coming abroad. All my worries and tensions would just lay to rest and I would (and could) become everything I wanted to be. I was in sync with my friends on the first line that day but today I beg to differ. The whole big deal about having ‘been’ abroad mesmerizes many folks back home. Honestly speaking, I don’t feel any different and now I am wondering why we found it so appealing in the first place? Being in a first world country sure has its perks but at what cost?
As I was chatting with my very good friend the other day, she said whenever she heard people were coming abroad she kept thinking in her head as to why they would want to do that? I have started thinking along the same lines now, ignorant of the fact that I was in their shoes once. It takes a tremendous amount of guts and determination to travel thousand miles away from home and manage by oneself. Hats off to those who have been able to cope with the pressures! I am just a new comer so I cannot comment much on my status right now. All I can really say is that I am not as strong as I thought I was but I am taking it one day at a time and waiting for the warm summer sky when I shall be free to do as I wish.
there was a time even i wanted 2 land up in a whites kinned country but before tht rise of my lonely steps, i realized...i need 2 prepare myself mentally...admire beauty and beast of my own counntry...i guess it was the new thoughts and new sky i was looking for in a foreign land.
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