Ramblings Only

There are many times that I feel this way, neither here not there, not belonging anywhere. I have moved quite a bit when young and a little later as well. I have studied 14 years in 8 schools. 

I have studied with Hindi speaking military kids, one gang believed in kissing each other good morning. I have studied with 'aathukku, saathamadhu' Brahmin kids. I lived with proper chennai slang ( vandhukine irukken, inna panre) speaking neighbours. I have studied in govt school along with low income kids and I have studied in private schools with super rich kids. 

I know folks who were totally against Hindi. I know folks from far down south of Tamil Nadu, learnt the different slangs of Tamil language from them. 

I have been to ski destinations where people cannot stand hot weather. I have been down south in Florida and met people who cannot believe how people can live in Chicago.

I have friends who are proper home birds, prefer staying home cooking and eating and chatting with friends to going out and exploring the outdoors. I also have friends who just need a day off to take off somewhere far from home. 

I live outside India, when I am in US I feel I am not as posh as the folks around me, and when I am in India I feel I don't belong here too.

I have lived outside of California. I have dreamt of the dreamland that it is. I have lived outside of Bay Area in California too, I understand the disdain people have towards Bay Area and the life there. And eventually I moved to Bay Area to understand why Bay Area is the way it is.

I was brought up in a strict Catholic household. And I married an open minded Hindu. My family is serious about jokes even and DH's family thrives in joking about everything serious.

All these experiences make me who I am. They have made me more tolerable to differences in opinions without judging. I belong to this free earth, I am not bound by culture or language or a particular school of thought or any strata of society even. Nowhere and everywhere. 

I wish I could give a similar experience to JSK as well so she is not pigeon holed to belong to one place.