You may spare no effort to fulfill your dream of putting down roots abroad but once you are settled there, the amount you missing your home is second to none. At times you also notice yourself regretting saying goodbyes to your motherland to set up home in a foreign country.
Below mentioned are the 15 things you will miss about your country, the moment you step outside:
1. Friends, Who Were with You Since Childhood
The titbits you used to have on a bench of a tea store, the phone calls your friends made to muster at the meeting place, parties, late night drives, etc, will be utterly missed once you step into a foreign country.
2. Crowds
Yes, the people, the one you had been escaping from and calling “crowd”. You will be left open-mouthed at how much you miss this “lost in the crowd” feeling once you are out. If you are in Europe, you might be convinced to think on your first day of your visit that there is some sort of curfew going on which is why no one is out on the streets.
3. Being Sick Alone
The one time you miss home and especially mom the most is when you fall ill. Those are the times when you would give just about anything no matter what for five minutes in her lap and eating food out of her hand that always got you better.
4. Home-Cooked Food
This is one of the foremost things that Indians abroad complain about missing. You may try your best to cook your most-loved Indian dish, but there’s something about mom’s magical hands that gives that distinctive taste and aromatic fragrance to her meals, something you can certainly never make a replica by following a recipe or find at even top five-star restaurants.
5. Watching an India-Pakistan Match
Remember watching cricket with your family or friends at one place having popcorn? And, the match between India and Pakistan was no less than a bash. But, watching cricket matches with this experience outside your own country will not be by any chance.
6. Medical Aid
The medical system in some foreign countries is such that getting to meet a doctor is an occasion you can note down in your diary for remembrance, for it is such a rare occasion.
Even after visiting a doctor at your place, the reassurance of calling your family doctor in the middle of the night complaining of a sore throat and he prescribing you to do gargles, which you knew already but felt better after hearing from his mouth, is a facility you would never get outside your home country.
7. Help at the Corner
You remember your neighbor aunt who used to come as a savior when your mom was short of curd, sugar, tea powder, salt or any grocery item? In abroad, do not even think about ringing the doorbell of your neighbor and demanding any such favors. You can be termed lunatic or threatening and can even invite complaint letters from the building owner.
8. Local Transport in India
Yes, no matter how much they irritated you back home, now you just wish and pray that somehow they would move to your part of the world. For foreign lands, no matter how well connected with their ultra-fast metros and bang-on-time buses, still call for loads of walking and unless you have been a trained runner or sports person, you will end up loathing it.
9. Maids You Had Back Home
No matter how much your cursed your maid for her uninformed leaves and dirt marks she left uncleaned on the utensils or floor, you will miss her dearly now while you dust, wash, clean, dry, shop, chop, cook all on your own day in and day out every day.
10. The Flexibility of Making Mistakes
You remember living India with ‘My life my rules’ quote? After landing up abroad you not only learn to live by a rule book but also end up paying huge penalties even for seemingly small and harmless neglects if you break it even once.
A wrong U-turn, a wrapper thrown unknowingly, talking in loud noise or smoking in a wrong place can lead you to severe punishments and major financial losses, and there is no way you can get away with it with a little bribe.
11. Indian Festivals
Be it Diwali, Christmas, or Ramzan, the amount of joy is same back home. No matter how many get-togethers you may attend on your favorite Indian festivals, there is no way you can have the same fun and frolic as you did in India and you will forever remember your best-loved sweets, the decorated markets, the preparations and shopping at home and, of course, the day off you got officially.
