Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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New Delhi,
India
Friday, June 27, 2008
Its overwhelming, nuturing in some ways, nostaligic in other ways and definitely emotional. It didn't sink in until I reached the home my parents constructed way back in 1971. This time, when I put my suitcases down in the house, I felt good about not having to live out of them. My mother excitedly showed me the new closets she got made in the master bedroom to become mine on the first floor of the house where my parents live on the ground floor and my dad and I have shared an office together on the second floor for nearly 4 years now. Bit by bit, step by step, word by word, talk after talk and after about an hour of reaching home from the airport, it was clear that this was a homecoming. Boy! Whew, I had been away for 22 years, often visited but just for brief spells of work and family events (including weddings - my sisters' (2 of them) and my own), my father's surgery and such. But, overall, I felt that feeling of YES!!! It was in the gut, rising to the heart and becoming a state of mind. I had made two farthest (from each other) points on earth (India and the US) my homes for equal periods of time. I was content, in many ways fulfilled. Yet, today marked in some more ways - that I will discover and I am in no rush - of a new journey. I have grown up, have new responsibilities and an agenda. But, it seems like an agenda that follows a conquest. A good feeling. I am positive about the future. More, as it unravels. More, also as I reminisce. Cheers, Munish
