On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Radhika, Y. <[email protected]> wrote: > > >>> >> Deepa, I live in Canada and my family lives mostly in the US and the > Hyderabad Metro area. In the US I worked with an international organization > and had a visa that was not on the immigrant track so I felt pretty secure > in many ways about not having to explain identity. It helped a lot that > every single one of my colleagues was equally transient and permanently from > someplace else. If you think NRIs have a committment problem, we were the > uber uncommitted. It was also the 90s and pretty much everyone in north > america lived in a bubble. > > Canada is far less sanitised than the US. My neighborhood has prostitutes, > pimps, drug dealers, homeless people, shopkeepers, millionaires and TV > anchors, First Nations people with their tragic history of interrment( i > consider it burial!) in residential schools where white missionairies abused > them, workers from the Arctic North who make 80,000 a year for 5 years and > get burnt out from lack of sunlight and return to "warm" British Columbia. > Slums right next to the rich and the straggling middle class. The frontier > like North and its cold are never far here. > > My parents were absolutely horrified to see that money cannot buy > insulation here except for the super rich. I don't live in a gated > development so the real world is right outside my windows and doorstep - > poverty, mountains, ocean, so much rain that it seems hardly a coincidence > that weeping varieties of every tree abound - weeping willow, weeping birch > everywhere. > > Finding richness of experience wherever one lives is important. Conversely > richness is available everywhere too. >
What a perceptive email. Thank you, Radhika. > > > > > > > > > -- > “Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear > and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them > with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the > lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always > be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream." ~ Lao Tzu > (courtesy -Peacefrog) >
