Why I came back to India from USA?

“The place where we are born forever attract us, if we leave the place. You are made up of the sand of the place you are born on. It will not let you leave. That’s why people living abroad crave to come back home forever.”

Those are the lines my uncle told me when I was leaving India to settle in USA. I was not aware of the meaning of these lines. I thought I am going to the most advanced country of the world, I will be able to learn a lot of new things there. It will no less than complete freedom. And I reached USA.

What should I say? Just when I entered the airport, I felt I have made a mistake. It felt so bad waving back to my family, standing outside the airport. All of the negative emotions and thoughts started hovering my mind. Shaking them off was so hard, as if I don’t have the energy to do that. Maybe, these thoughts came because I was scared of going to a totally different country. I started worrying about my son that he will not be able to see his family that often. What will I do if something happen to my family? Or what will they do if I’ll need them? My family didn’t have the visa to come to me.

At John F. Kennedy Airport, one of our distant relative came to pick us up. When I reached at their home, they served us food. The taste was totally different from our country, even when all the ingredients were same. The lady…