Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Its different..

Like Maggi hot and sweet tomato ketchup.

But you probably knew that before.

Its about here and there.

Here there is electricity.There is none there.None being 12/24 in winters and 12 tending towards 24 in summer.

Here there is food.Organic, inorganic, grade A, B,C ,D ALpha beta gamma, theta, t2 t3 suchlike.You would starve in the aisle while chosing whats good for your heart.But yes, there is food. There is food there also.Mostly non shiny, non polished, chemical free, precious food...you want carrots- there is just one way its available...you want eggs- you have no clue whether they are grade abcdefgh or brown or white or organic or inorganic..you neither know if the hens were caged or not or treated rbst pqrs etc nor do you care.Its life as BB (Bhagwaan Bharose).

Here you are perpetually afraid and try to avert disasters- get h1n1 vaccine, know how to do basic first aid, read the manual, install the car seat, take life insurance, take medical insurance, take car insurance take renters insurance, take insurance insurance...jeeeez as they say.There it is BB- jab hoga dekha jayega...kis kis cheez se bachogay...life is short so enjoy it to the hilt..why eat unpalatable food- agar heart attack hoga to uskay baad exercise karengay...In my 10 yrs of car driving not even once did i think of what to do if car fell in water.Here i see a soap about a guys car getting in water and i start to do a PhD in how to escape from a sinking car...my mood changes and i am yet again afraid..

Here you weigh in pounds...the upside is when u are putting on weight it seems like its just in pounds..its not in kilos so its acceptable...which is also the downside...there anyone above 60kgs in weight whatever height sex religion, caste, social status...is consider obese and is called fatso either behind or in front of their backs :D

Here you have the maximum choice of anyone in the world- but you also do not have the basic freedom to earn your living if you are a foreigner...on a dependent visa.You have the best salaries but you have no assured employment, you have the best stuff for babies in the world wide world..but your employer gives you no paid time off to have babies...you have everything, you have nothing....There you have classes, but no teachers, you have medicines, but half of them work no better than placebo, you have institutions that prepare you for going abroad, you have the most intelligent people- in the bureaucracy - whose life is dedicated to making the country function less efficiently than before....

But you wish you were there...and you are a free bird there...its all greener there..just because its home....

3 comments:

Unknown said...

here or there. Here it is cold and there is snow and ice, I do not think there has it.
There is better.

Nikhil Chowdhary said...

Way too much choice here - highly confusing.

I want an apple, just give me an apple - i dont wanna go through the pros and cons of each type of apple ever to have seen the light of day.

I want a coffee - just give me a damn coffee - i dont wanna know all that italy/columbia/java/sumatra has to offer.

I want milk - give me milk, I dont wanna know the varying degrees of fat you can remove from milk & varying degrees of vitamins you can add to it.

I want bread, just give me bread - I dont want to understand the constituents of all the wheat/flour/grain/fortification that goes into it.

But I guess its entirely my responsibility that i am here, theres nobody to blame for it and there obviously is a reason for it...

As kaifi bhai said a long time ago - kabhi kisimko mukkammal jahaan nahi milta, kahin zameen to kahin aasmaan nahi milta...

Smriti said...

Such a touching post - really liked it! And I agree with most of it.

Looks like somebody is missing home :) Why don't you come over to Seattle for a few days - we'll have loads of fun!