LURE FOR FOREIGN COUNTRIES
To begin with here is a most
relevant quote on the subject:”Leaving a home country and parents to settle
abroad is a major life decision often driven by the pursuit of better career
prospects, higher quality of life, and personal growth. “
The
same quote adds: While the prospect of independence and global exposure is
attractive, it is frequently accompanied by guilt and the emotional challenge
of leaving aging parents behind.
Life in a foreign country is not comfortable
for everybody who goes there. Accommodation is a major problem. The same room
for which handsome rent has to be paid is shared by a number of users. All
those who live together are not intimate. They are isolated. Their mother
tongues are different. Their life styles do not match. Quite a few of them are
drug addicts. Religiously also they are at logger heads.
As for lonely parents, life is sad.
Their contact with their detached children is only through mobiles and that
also once in a while.
I know of a retired Indian
university professor who went to see his son abroad but was not able to live with
him. He stayed in a hotel and ultimately feeling homesick and lonely died there.
In an interesting story, the writer
quoted a mother sparrow with these words. “I am sad because when my children
became able to use their wings, they flew away leaving me alone forever .”
I find so many parents in my city
where they have been subjected to
painful loneliness because their children have settled abroad. A large number of them are old, sick and poor.
As William Shakespeare said in his poem THE
SEVEN AGES OF MAN –
Last
scene of all,
That
ends this strange eventful history.
Is
second childishness and mere oblivion
Sans
teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
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