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The Idea
I am the kind of person who does not get excited easily. In fact, trust me even after coming to the US, I did not feel any extra excitement (On the contrary, I am missing India).
Perhaps people around me were more delighted than me before coming here.
A large portion of people in India wants to visit the US and perhaps want to stay here forever (especially, perhaps those rich people in metro cities).
But here I am wondering alone 'why would people like to stay here forever (Indians)?'
My notion is people perhaps do not love to stay here but stay because of various obligations (This isn't true for everyone).
I know I am perhaps biased here. This is just my perspective and people have their own. Regardless, I would like to put out my viewpoint.
A few years back I heard in a video someone saying 'India is blessed to have sunlight all around the year'.
I had no idea how it related to the blessed. I mean for us Indians sunlight is just a natural thing we grow up seeing every day.
You won't realize the blessing of sunlight unless you live in a place where the temperature goes below zero degrees and there is no sunlight for weeks/months.
Back in India, winter is a time for celebration and get together, Alas, here I feel like winter is depressing.
Weather is perhaps a minor thing, the more serious thing I observed the lesser human connection (but better material affluence).
Here, I have no idea who are my neighbors and what kind of people are they. The distance between houses here is wide apart (surprising again). One would feel as if they are living in isolation.
As Indians, it's hard to imagine that we don't have any idea about our neighbors (although, Indian metro cities are going in the same direction perhaps). We are more social people perhaps.
Most of us feel excited about life with the people around us. There is no point in having just material affluence if there are no well-intentioned people around to enjoy with.
And I personally believe, the role of money or material affluence is limited in life. It can only make life better up to a certain extent, beyond that no matter how much affluence you have, it can not improve the quality of your life (unless you are giving away your money to needy people).
Ultimately, nothing is absolutely right or wrong in this debate. As an individual, I might think India is a great place to live (instead of problems) but someone is not wrong if he/she thinks the US is a better place to stay.
It's the difference of perspectives. It is bound to be dissimilar.
But I find it unfair when people talk about problems living in India but not in the US. I can almost guarantee, there are multiple problems in the USA as well.
If life is all about money for someone, the USA is the place to stay perhaps (I guess money is the major motivation for most people nowadays).
But if someone thinks life is not all about money, he/she needs to think differently.
What do you think about this as an Indian living in a foreign country or even in India?
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