To Lawrence, with Love...
I was wanting to publish this post from the US itself... But something just stopped me from doing it. Here I am trying to modify this post a little so that it is honed to perfection. ( I still wouldn't call it P.E.R.F.E.C.T)
So, as every other piscean is programmed to imagine... I had zillion number of things in mind and the extent of imagination was INTENSE. It was pretty much close to what the movies had shown in the past... Wide roads, cars EVERYWHERE, Burgers, Pizza... Man! This place was REALLY stunning.
The one thing that I noticed after coming to US was that most people here were majorly polite and sometimes it even puzzled me as to how people could be SO nice. The first one week in the US was nothing very different from what it used to be in India. Well, actually there was a BIG difference. At some point of time I have heard my brother say that he was a totally responsibilty-free individual in the US and all of a sudden I was going to be a most challenging responsibilty that he had ever taken in his life.
The one thing that I noticed after coming to US was that most people here were majorly polite and sometimes it even puzzled me as to how people could be SO nice. The first one week in the US was nothing very different from what it used to be in India. Well, actually there was a BIG difference. At some point of time I have heard my brother say that he was a totally responsibilty-free individual in the US and all of a sudden I was going to be a most challenging responsibilty that he had ever taken in his life.
There were certain things that I SO didn't wish to do for I knew that I was not putting my best possible effort at all. Afternoons were supremely boring and I used to count the number of hours after which my brother used to be home. Well, the sad part of the story is that I was supposed to be revising loads so that it could help me get funded. But, there was something that stopped me from doing all of it... Jet Lag... Duh!
Days were coming close and I was leaving for my university town in day's time. I was beginning to feel very weird for I was being kicked out of home for the first time and I had NO idea how it was to live with three random girls.
So we left... and as we entered Kansas, I just realized that I was struck by a lighting and I had entered the gates of heaven. As we entered Kansas reality struck me once again. This place did not have tall raised buildings nor did it have a million McDs (Eating at McDs are a major source of show off in India :P)
The inital few days were a little tricky. To be honest, I used to prepare my dialogs which were pretty much close to any native English speaking person. Not that I was not good at conversing, but I really wanted to sound at least a little polite like the people around me. ( or may be because I wanted to get my accent right :P)
Soon days became months and I was beginning to like everything around me. Ouch!! You can't always like everything that you see during the first few months. In a couple of months as fall approached, I knew that somethings were not at the right place and it was high time I corrected all those mistakes ( instances avoided on purpose) :)
Not that I wasn't aware of the change in seasons, somehow things began to look different and love began to pour and this time it had a GREAT quality and quantity.
Today it is more than a year since I landed into the 'land of dreams' and I have NO regrets at all. I might not have spent time in updating the blog page, but I have surely spent a lot of GOOD times with family and friends.
Life is Beautiful :)
Buggy
