Our homeland beckons us..........

It seems like time has stopped....
Right now, if i want anything desperately it is to return to India..my home land. For no particular reason than being terribly bored and homesick.It's weird that i still feel this homesickness after years of sepration from my family and good old dear friends. Even if there's no one back home waiting for me...now i just want to go back. Somehow, a foreign land seems borrowed and not my own; whereas India is - good or bad , rich or poor- it's mine and will be......... till death do us apart!!! :-)

It's not about patriotism or any such thing it's just about loving what is your own. And this feeling must be very common in any individual. I have met people who want to go abroad and may be settle there if possible. Among them , there are some who genuinely have reasons to do so. Some, for whom it really doesn't matter where in the world they reside. But then, i really don't understand those who just want to go abroad for it is a 'better' place to live than our India. Yes, ofcourse these are developed countries with lots of ease in the way of life. But then, isn't it our own responsiblilty to bring India to such state of development? If we are going to leave it who's ever going to bring in that change? And if we can't strive for bringing in that change (political, infrastructural or in any small or big way) ......who are we to complain????????

It's the 'minds' of it's people which can make or break a nation. And, if we can't do anything to serve our country atleast we can be 'loyal' to our country!!!!!!!!!!

In the last two years, if i have understood one thing about myself, it is that, i am most happy when i am in my own country among my own people. True 'tis that you know the value of something when it's taken away from you.

For now, i just want to go back....feel the heat, smell the air and hear the words in 'hindi' of my family, friends and neighbours!!!