Yesterday I went out for dinner with a friend (who is here from the us) & we started takling about the cultural differences. In the two countries one point which came across was that the Americans strive to have an identity 0r individuality where as in India (girls) eventually become mrs...or mother of..... thus loosing themselves in the whole holdrum,which is so true. I remember when i was in college ,we all were asked to introduce ourselves& we all landed up saying the same things I am....., my father is....., my mother is.... but nothing about ourself. It is generally at a time of crisis that we come out of our shells &show ourselves in the truest sense.
Having thought about all this, I thought about myself-what I was ,what i wanted to be& what I have become.all i can think of is a happy childhood, being my papa's daughter,what i wanted was to be married & have a house full of dogs & what I have is a husband & a dog (nothing big, nothing profound,simple tastes in life).again I thought ,where is my individuality. I am a wife,a daughter,a sister ,a mom.....but all these people are the ones who matter the most& they are the ones who know me as the one i am(confusing). What I am trying to say is that I know who I am,people who matter know who I am(yes my dog also knows me well)...the rest of the world can take a jump.it does not matter.being all this makes me
happy & here i am....
a happy person with simple tastes in life.
