Being home, imho, doesn't have much to do with assimilation. It has a lot to do with the passing of time. And those of us who often wish we were "home" and talk of some homeland, well, we better think again - for its really a yearning for lost time, for moments in the past - that guides us. And nothing short of time travel will ever bring us home. <<
As I said earlier,friendship is a question of finding common ground.The place where you have spent the major part of your growing years are of paramount importance, simply because a lot about you is your geography.It is this geography that supplies friendship with common ground: the school you went to,the park you played in,the movies you had seen when you were growing up, so on and so forth.I read somewhere comparing human beings with a presentation template---you can change what you fill in but not what is already there.It simply means remembering the " root".We miss something here,we donot quite know what.Is it the language? The cinema? My religion? The color of my skin?So we compensate.Try to stick to the familiar.Go to Indian doctors,Indian grocery stores,stick to Indian friends and make them our surrogate family.This is the bond,which remains unbroken.To me, " feeling completely at home" is not synonymous with having the knowledge to navigate the system.
KJD
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