Two Minds...

Only some of the opinions in this post are mine most are general.
Apologies for those who feel the opinions are narrow/shallow, I would surely be interested to read more in your post.
And this is not a post to state people in India are not happy. I was there, and was happy :)

Life is fascinating when it comes with surprises. But the most important part is how does one define surprises. An analogy; an interesting movie when you least expected it, a bright sunny day amidst a biting winter, an impromptu trip or family reunion can be enthralling surprises. What about a sudden power cut, a sudden meet up with corrupt government officials, unexpected traffic, self/stranger property woes, an unforeseen riot, chain of government scandals that make our morning tea interesting. Although at that point in time we detest these situations, later we do laugh about these. So does it mean we forcing ourselves to enjoy them because we can't fight them?

Lately I have been pondering over the common question of why people choose US over India. So did i digress earlier? I don't think so. Everybody loves India and they must, not just because it their motherland but so many emotions, memories are tied to it. Growing up in India most of them learnt how to struggle for almost anything and everything. With the government adding more woes than reliefs in the name of reservations, corruption, illiteracy, nepotism, lack of infrastructure etc etc. But being a young Indian one is not supposed to just talk but stand up and fight for a change to usher an new era. Because we are tuned to think nothing is impossible. Its not that nobody does anything about it, we do take steps/support in our own and unique ways to bring that change. The size of involvement however is left to the person. Time is also a factor, as it may take multiple decades to achieve the impossible. But seriously talking how many are ready to give up a considerable portion of their lives to stand up for what in actual is their duty?

Every one has their own family and so many dreams of their parents that have kept on piling, they all need their share of happiness, they need their money and their space. I think at a certain point one begins to think why can't I live a better life when it is possible. The primary reason for this is the greedy mindset of the people there. Its not a wrong thing, probably it one of the things that make us so competitive and it may be attributed to our early struggles in life that I was talking about earlier. They realize that they have worked extremely hard to reach a point in life and of a little sacrifice can take them to a better place where they could live in peace, everyone would certainly like that . Don't they? The problems that the nation is facing are so deep rooted that the probability of one becoming a sacrifice rather than a hero is too high. I do want to make myself think in an optimistic way here but even a hard try could not make me think otherwise.

Greet USA. Life is truly speaking comfortable here. People mind their own business. The government has created such a ecosystem that people are just content all the time. Even I was puzzled when I got the internet/electricity/water connections the same day. Not to forget the fact that it was my third day in a foreign country. The number of problems in any other place would run in thousands. Its not just this, the surprises kept pouring in, their marvelous education system, merciless use of technology in everything and the pace at which anything gets done, the impeccable organization of things, the amount of perfection in which they maintain even the smallest of the tourist place, and not to forget the nicety of the people. More than any of this as I have seen one fact that it true that many of my colleagues/friends/strangers will agree. 'If you have money, you are the king here'. Yes, everything is just so easily affordable.

Things here are just simplified to the core, they are made beautiful to the point at which everything seems artificial, without life. This is the time when the second set of surprises(the dark ones) seem to feel more life like. This can be attributed to a simple fact that "without pain one can never understand the meaning of happiness". And here it is just too much of happiness. I have seen a lot of people here who miss these dark surprises. But do they really? is a matter of perspective. After this slowly things start becoming more clearer, they start seeing the sacrifices they have made w.r.t may be family, relatives, friends etc and they realize that their whole life was all about running after money and materialistic comforts. These and many more such factors speeds up the return to the country of birth.

So what is the right thing to do? Who are the people who made the ethical choice? Frankly, I have no idea. The debate is endless. Lets just assume everyone is right and lets all be content.