Nostalgia - yet again

In my entire life, this is the 12th residence I am staying in and this has come with a very profound nostalgic feeling due to two reasons - one, that it is a new place and I am missing my old apartment and two, that my parents who were here for one month left just the day we settled down in the new place. So everything is new and changed and change is something that our heart is afraid of. I have had this feeling many a times. When I went to Dubai to start my studies and then to Singapore to finish it. When I came to Hyd for the first time and had to spend a night in a lonely apartment. Then shifted to a new place and had to adjust - I could not even find dinner those two days and had to settle down with some crap.

While going through this phase, I was just thinking about various birds having their nest been destroyed by rains, enemies and what not and they must have been going through this phase so often. It is indeed a very low feeling and on top of that, a demanding Monday comes to ask your heart and mind to be as lively as possible to take major professional decisions. After all, you never feel nostalgic when your Boss goes away, except in a few cases (such a case can be when you are waiting for an important email reply such as confirmation of leaves, etc).

Thats the irony of life and thats the way one has to handle it. I ask what can we achieve by being away from our own people, what can a forced profession and its forced location give us other than money and bit of professional fulfillment. I say nothing. I say, it gives us nothing as valuable as the time you spend with your loved ones. So love truly, laugh uncontrollably and smile often - as life is moving ahead without waiting for you - one second at a time.