Today is India’s 61st Independence day and i was reminded about it by a friend. It has also been over 5 years now since i moved to USA and i have been to india only once during those 5 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Since i moved out here i have realized that the festivals like Diwali, Holi, Navratri etc don’t really mean the same to me as they did when i was back home. Am i being unemotional or its just that living this country doesn’t evoke the same excitement in me about these things anymore. It is really hard to explain but most of the festival days are like any other day to me there is nothing special.<\/p>\n
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Not that i would do something special but in India when i would wake up on independence day,\u00a0atleast\u00a0i would realize that is independence day and stuff you know, but here its like any other weekday. Of course you would expect that since its not US independence day but then at the same time if there are any celebrations out there, i just don’t attend them. Maybe there aren’t any parades out here in LA as they happen in NY or New Jersey which makes it different.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Also whenever people celebrate festivals its usually on weekends because no one has time during the weekdays to get everything organized and people won’t simply attend those functions on a weekday. It is a matter of\u00a0convenience over significance ,\u00a0ofcourse\u00a0celebrating things on a different day doesn’t lower the\u00a0significance\u00a0or maybe it does, I will let you decide that.<\/p>\n
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Personally for me no matter what the enthusiasm or the excitement just isn’t there, call it being unemotional, cold or maybe i am just turning into an NRI…..It is a sad thing but for some reason i just can’t help it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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