How I lost my present in the process of making money for tomorrow…

This may be true for you too if you are living in a city away from your hometown to make money for your tomorrow.

When you grow up to adulthood, making more and more money is the primary agenda as injected by the society. It is common in almost all societies, no matter whether your country is well developed or not.

There is one criteria affecting people of all nations except the developed nations. “Migration as a worker”. There are two kinds in it. Migration to countries better developed than theirs or migration to better developed state/city within their country.

Whatever the kind of migration it is, people do it for two reasons generally. Either for basic necessities or for luxury. There are some other reasons like passion towards something which is not available in their home land is a rare phenomenon.

In the general category, people start their journey as a migrant worker with a plan to go back to their own land wealthy, one day. They start a different life in the new place with less amenities, rented home or even without that with the dream of becoming richer than they are today. That is the start of loosing “present” life. It becomes an endless circle. Circle of bigger dreams, circle of Dept’s, circle of social respect. If you migrated for luxury rather than basic necessities, you did a gamble…

There is no social relations, there is no friends in the street, market, playground etc… where is my present?! Yes I have money, car etc. I can go occasionally to hometown and show off people that I am rich. Where is my life? I check emails midnight and early mornings. I hardly see evening sun, I hardly see a friend in a street cafe. Where if my present?

Will the day I dreamt will come? When nobody is going back, how can you go back. You migrated because of social pressure to become richer than others and so many people are in the same race. If I retire from this never ending race now, I will be treated as a loser. Am I? What if I go back after 20 years? Yes nothing will change. People will still treat you as failed because everybody else did not return?! Ha ha ha…..

I see people like me keep on updating their Facebook feeds to show the world that they have won the race and to fake that they are happy. Do people who are really happy update their social media feed so often? Hardly true. When you see everything through your camera to upload on Facebook, happiest people are seeing everything through their own eyes!

I saw one guy in front of Indian grocery shop in Milpitas, CA standing alone around 7 pm on a week day. When he saw my friend, he came near to us and told that he has bought new car and gave the keys to my friend to check. After coming back to our room, I asked who was that. He replied that he is his friend’s friend’s friend, rarely met. Yes he has new car but he don’t have enough people to show off, not even his parents and family.

“I buy things with the money I don’t have to impress people I don’t like” — Replaced ‘people’ and ‘they’ with ‘I' in the famous quote since I am one of them.

Are you brave enough to break the circle and live in present? There exists no tomorrow for you unless you live today. This is mathematics. Believe!