Future of the States.....

As I sit here, studying for my finals, frustrated, tired, desperate in need of a break, I fall back into my thoughts and memories of how I was five years back.....
I was pretty much the same as I am now...careless, irresponsible, unorganized, least bothered about the future, happy go lucky and wat not.. It didnt matter much back then, but now, it does!!!!!!

Those memories make me feel so happy..I wish I could go back in time..How relaxed I was?? how life used to be soooo non-demanding and liberal..sigh..those were the times...

But, when I think abt wat I am gonna be, where I am gonna be 5 years from now, it sends cold shivers down my spine..I never feared life so much..I never felt so insecure abt life..Never did my life seem so unstable!!!Well, I better not talk abt it, but lemme go back in time....
exactly a year ago,when I was preparing for my finals (damn! I was cursed!! these finals dont lemme be happy)...had the same thoughts back then..
But,
I knew I would be done with my B.E in a month..
I knew I would be coming here to do my masters..and wow! those blessed dreams of mine...about the states...

America would be a paradise.. A "Guy's paradise"...Hot chicks all around...Hot chicks who wanna get laid by engineers from Bombay university, Somaiya EXTC to be precise..Land of money..Place that has no miseries..a heaven full of happiness....

I said these lines to myself when I was standin in the line to give my VISA interview,I said them again when I boarded the flight to come here.. "America awaits me!!"

But now! Damn! I wish I'd never come here..Life sucks, it was a total opposite of wat I had imagined..Never in my wildest dreams had i thought it wud be like this..Never in my life had I seen so many south indians together..I often sit and wonder "I think I boarded the wrong plane"There are more people from Andhra Pradesh here than there are in Andhra Pradesh!!!We can have a Ranji Trophy being played here..and I bet, there would be more league matches played here than those played
back home.

All kinds of people who come here from India..
Some who want to study, most who want to earn money..
some who want to get married, most who want to get laid..
I just laugh within myself, I pity America..

With all this happening, and the Dollar value going down, the future of the states seems funny to me..

Just imagine......
10-20 years from now.......
1$=0.02 Rupees..India has a stronger economy, India is more technologically advanced..wat if the tables just turn???all those people like me, who came here would obviously like to go back home..
But guess wat????

Another exam!!!!another GRE, TOHFL (Test of hindi as foreign language).....Not only us, but imagine even the americans aspiring to go to India to study...Go to the colleges we went to, face the professors we faced..
Imagine them studying a "Hindi wordlist" and quant section literally 'screwing!!! heall yeah screwing'...we are Indians, we are good at math!!!Imagine India having its consulate here in the large American cities like New York, Chicago, LA...

Imagine the consulate to be full of "kamble sahaabs" who conduct the interview..A consulate where the gatekeeper is most powerful, then the peon, then the clerk,and the least powerful being the issuing authority himself...A consulate where you could get your VISA if you can succesfully negotiate and bargain with the peon and pay him 500 Rupees...under the table!!!

Imagine them going to India, landing in Mumbai, which is an equivalent to New york...travelling by autorickshaws, and aamchi mumbai locals...and with the currency equation, they having a tough time living..All they can afford is to rent a slum in Dharavi, typically 200 sq. ft and stay with four other friends in it..
Everything changes...from burger to vadapav, pizzas to pani puri..
travelling from Karjat, Khopoli to Bandra...writing their assignments in the crowded train..

Imagine them trying to adapt to the mumbai fashion..from govinda dress to the Bambaiya slangs..
Imagine them swearing at each other..."aye teri maa ki....ma%$#@#$%">ki....ma%$#@#$%, bhe$%$#@"..
Imagine them working off campus in vada pav stalls and in sabzi markets..
imagine them driving autos and taxis for a living.. going through all the pains and struggles we went through

above all, wat if indian professors start to be like the ones here???assignments everyweek..no copying, a straight "F" if caught!!!Imagine them going to college everyday to fulfil the 75% attndance and completing the assignments..facing all those sexually humiliated and harrased external VIVA examiners.. getting a 60% or else no Co-ops, No Internships..

HAHAHA!!! That makes me laugh out loud.. makes me feel so much better...Not only me, but any Indian whos been here to do his masters would feel better when this thought crosses his mind..

We will never change..Indians will never change, but change things around them to feel happy!!!
Signing off,
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