Boy do I need to update my blog! I'm just waiting for my muse...he/she just doesnt seem to be cooperating! Anyway as soon as inspiration hits me AND i get the time....will be pouring out my soul on electronic paper.
I do have one thought though...watched The Namesake...and kinda identified with Gogol. Feeling torn between different identities isn't something new to NRI kids/adults. We're neither wholly Indian nor wholly anything else...seriously the word "home" makes us pause and think...where do we really belong? Our upbringing dictates one lifestyle but our thoughts and minds are restless birds beating their wings against a cage...longing for something else we dont even have a name for. We dont completely identify with one single culture..too broad minded for Indian values, too narrow minded for Western values. Standing outside each world we're looking in wistfully wishing we could identify with something, anything...ghosts trapped in between two dimensions forever damned to roam the netherworld. The only place we feel completely ourselves is with other people just like us who know where we're coming from and actually get our jokes! That's the only time we feel part of a clan, a tribe, a species. What a feeling that is..having spent our entire lives never really belonging anywhere....more on this later...this really needs a lot of thought and reflection for more profound revelations..hah.
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Funny, I was thinking about just this yesterday after stumbling across a piece on podbazaar.com called Bridging The Bicultural Gap, and how our innate Indian-ness affects our notions of self and love when growing up in and living in a non-Indian culture, in this case the west and its global influence.
I've come to terms with it (not fully or well) merely remembering that there are other people out there like me, and to keep them in my company constantly.
Another crucial notion that reassures me is that we're not half-and-half, either-or, neither-nor, but BOTH. We are blessed.
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