By Rajkamal Rao
Go to The Move
The period between D-Day (when your shipment was picked up) and your departure date will continue to be stressful. Staying in a hotel or at a friend’s place will be a stark reminder that you can no longer go to your own home and that things will be different from now on. When you sell your cars and rent a car, you may even begin to question your decision to relocate! As you begin to complete each task in the moving calendar, you will begin to feel strange. And as you attend farewell parties thrown by friends and family, you will realize that those good times you had with them are no longer coming back.
Your ride to the airport on departure date will feel the strangest of all. Being driven there by a friend’s family car or in a taxi will make it odd since you would have made the airport trip yourself hundreds of times in your own car fetching others to and from the airport. At check-in, you would have to pinch yourself again to note that your ticket is one-way - as opposed to all those round trip tickets you bought all these years. And as your flight takes off, you truly realize that you are leaving your life behind. A life that you carefully built and sustained. For what you hope would be a better life. In many ways, you’d feel exactly like you did many years ago when you first left India to go west.
Go to The Move
The period between D-Day (when your shipment was picked up) and your departure date will continue to be stressful. Staying in a hotel or at a friend’s place will be a stark reminder that you can no longer go to your own home and that things will be different from now on. When you sell your cars and rent a car, you may even begin to question your decision to relocate! As you begin to complete each task in the moving calendar, you will begin to feel strange. And as you attend farewell parties thrown by friends and family, you will realize that those good times you had with them are no longer coming back.
Your ride to the airport on departure date will feel the strangest of all. Being driven there by a friend’s family car or in a taxi will make it odd since you would have made the airport trip yourself hundreds of times in your own car fetching others to and from the airport. At check-in, you would have to pinch yourself again to note that your ticket is one-way - as opposed to all those round trip tickets you bought all these years. And as your flight takes off, you truly realize that you are leaving your life behind. A life that you carefully built and sustained. For what you hope would be a better life. In many ways, you’d feel exactly like you did many years ago when you first left India to go west.
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