srb888
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- Jul 30, 2008
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This would seem out of place for some, but I fully agree with you because I had felt the same way.The grass isn't always greener on the other side. You're still young. Why don't you start out traveling and see how you do with that? My daughter is a year younger than you are. She wasn't fond of our boring little state and couldn't wait to go somewhere different. She graduated college, got a good job in another state, and she comes home a lot. Sometimes the things you didn't like about where you lived turn out to be the things that you end up missing when you're gone.
I was out of India for the first time (I have been abroad a lot of times since then) and went to work in Saudi Arabia as a graphics manager. Although the work was great I was quite homesick. Then when I returned home, the aircraft crossed the Arabian sea into the Mumbai shores, and then onto over the slums of Dharavi in Mumbai while the aircraft approached the landing. I had a window seat, and when I saw those slums areas and that beach and those very beautiful landscapes which had my roots, I felt tears come flooding. I let them flow freely. Those slums were so inviting to me, the land was so dear... that's the way you feel when you're away from your "Home"...
Whenever I see someone going away, I always feel that when he/she returns 'home' the same feeling would come to him/her... and that would be such a special moment for the one who returns... it is usually the moment when they learn what they are really missing... and that's such a valuable moment in life!
Thanks!