We shifted to Indirapuram, Ghaziabad in
2012 for a better life and better opportunities, as normal people have a
thinking of metropolitan cities having all the luxuries and the amenities which
they do not have in their own non-metropolitan cities or to say Tier-2, tier-3
towns. We being the part of the society and have a similar thinking and set of
mind, thought to relocate to a better place where opportunities are abundant,
life is better and all those notions.
At first, when we shifted here, we started
liking the place as it has got all the luxuries, amenities which our old place
of living didn’t had and likely to not have in many coming years. It was
initially good, no Great!, As we had finally got rid of the troubles looming
over our heads for a long time and big question mark? Over our heads about the
future which had taken a stronghold on our lives after the closure of our work
back then in the old days. Everything was going smooth, I had started something
new which I was planning from my graduation time on doing a master’s degree
after the graduation gets over.
A new city to explore, new places to go
which we had never visited in the past or never had time or the opportunity to
visit. New people to meet. We started enjoying the perks of a metropolitan city
which was clearly visible to us or to most of the people who come seeking
something better from life. So keeping it strictly personal to my family
experiences, life was good, no better, as what we thought of initially was
coming to us in the way we wanted, life was merrier with the materialistic
approach towards it, we overlooked most of the more important things in life
such as family, friendship, kinship, companionship and most importantly
emotional connection to a particular place which being technically deficient in amenities and all that stuff, it felt like home, felt like our own, felt like we know it, but practical
and logical step is what most people take and following the logical practical
notion we too decided and shifted to a new unknown place.
Being in a metropolitan city, it feels like
speed of time differs here than that of other cities. It feels like time is
always in a hurry here, two years has gone by and it feels like it was just
yesterday when we shifted here. Back in the old city, days felt like months and
months felt like years altogether and so on. It was so calm and relaxed back
then it felt like time is in slow motion itself, we had all the time in the
world for the things which generally people avoid to do due to its hefty time
consuming process but still we did and loved to do them. Back then, the
thinking was, why are we doing these things coz we have nothing better to do or
we had all the time to do these things and still have time other regulars
also! But here, the thing which is the
most deficient of all is, time! How, I never get to understand it, it just so
weird about it.
Anyway, here we never do or think of doing
those things we did back then in the old city coz there is no time, day comes
and goes by in a jiffy, that by the time we get to know what is happening, the
hands in the clock has turned greatly further forward and the day gets over.
That is how all the time has gone past by and we never noticed of it coz life
has made us so busy that we don’t have time for ourselves. It’s not that we
didn’t had work to do in the old city, we had greater work than that of
current’s but it was different back then.
Being busy never meant that we didn't had time for the family,
friendship, life and all. But here, it’s all so freakin’ fast, that even having time
available at hand, we are still busy or to say in a sense of busy-ness. Doing
nothing still makes us busy!!!!!!
Moving forward with the blog titled “Life
in a Metro through my experinces”, as time went by and we became familiar with all the things here,
the materialistic approach we initially had, has faded off in the course of
time. We have all the amenities and all that stuff but the sense of “something
is missing” has crept in. I initially
did not understand this notion at all but after some time (months, almost a
year), it came to me, what we did not have in here is those “more important
things in life” what we initially discarded. And this sense has now grown too
much to a discomfort level that it might become a mental agony. We have met new people here and meet them often, but the sense of belonging-ness is not
there. It feels alien every time we meet these people. The city also feels
alien almost every time I go out. What is missing in here, what is the difference, I
really do not understand this notion. But it is there. That calm and compose is
missing in the equation. Back in the old place, we had big, no huge troubles
but those siphoned off in a way that we did not feel the pinch as there were
people around every time. Here, the story is different all together, without
any trouble we feel that pinch and with the trouble it’s HEIGHTS!!!!
Was it worth to have that change we had in
our lives?, only time will tell. Until then life has to go on.
