Three years ago I took a leap with parent’s prayers and partner’s love affair
exactly three years ago today i left you, my mother(land). Today marks exactly three years since i took a leap of faith into the void with your support and an iota of motherly love and bucketload of friendly love from my partner.
It was literally into the void for me. For people, it was like jumping from one heaven to another but those close to me know what that jump meant for me.
it's been half my life since i had been gone,
away from my home,
to make a life of my own.
it feels tiring and lonely at times but i am quite sure that:
our physical worlds are separate and apart,
but your soul always follows my heart.
maybe the next 18 years i get to spend with you,
maybe the next 18 years are full of happiness that is real and true.
This day means a lot to me. completing my time of 3 years at work in Switzerland felt like doing time in a way.
It started alright, albeit a few settling in hiccups. It got better midway. But the last year was quite tumultuous partly because my body went through a lot if changes and partly due to petty problems at workplace.
My body literally died and renewed exactly three months before my 36th birthday.
It’s a well-established almost common sense wisdom in India that the body, including every cell, renews after every 7 years.
Finishing 28 and turning 29 was also quite tumultuous for me in India.
This is what I wrote back then:
BLACK LIGHTNING STRUCK!
This is what I wrote turning 36:
WAITING FOR THE NEXT STRIKE AT 42!
Coming back to completing my job tenure in Switzerland.
If i had to sum up in one line: It hurt like Heaven.
Just like when I left home for the first time for college. It was like a sapling being planted away from the parent tree.
Tough phase for both,
But needed the most for growth.
Something similar was the bittersweet hurt leaving my motherland.
But this experience of living in a foreign land opened up my eyes wide and wide.
This is what I am living for- to widen my horizon, deepen my perspective and remove the blind spots.
And what better place to get it than in a melting-pot of all different civilisations.
The exposure I got here on both professional and personal level was unmatched. I am so so grateful to all the Gs involved in making it possible.
Now I am ready to face anything head on!
I am ready now, hatred can not pull me down,
I have felt the power of God's love so close.
ps: picture with my mother taken just before leaving for the airport.
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