Hey everyone,
Fellow blogger Jo says she misses home. I wrote about how I miss London months ago. Today I miss Pakistan and want to be there. Is the grass always greener on the other side? Why don't we miss the place we are away from while we are in there? Do we take it for granted while we are there?
I miss Jeddah too. Time and again, I feel like going back home in Jeddah, and just chilling out. Driving down Tahliya and Sari streets, as well on the corniche. Enjoying the relaxed pace of life. But at times it's funny that when I am in Jeddah I wish I were elsewhere, like in Dubai so I could go to the cinemas and nice restaurants. You can call me a nomad because I still don't know where I want to settle. Where is "home?" Lahore? Jeddah? Dubai? Anywhere? (Deep down I know the Earth is not my final home, but my final home will be up above with God- so I am only referring to my place in this world when I talk about settling down.)
My brother and his family is settled in London. My parents will soon be leaving Jeddah after 28 years there and move to Pakistan. I know I will going to the UK to do my Masters. So when I finish my Masters, that will be the crucial point when I know where I will settle.
I don't feel settled in Dubai. I am living here, but I don't feel like I can stay here for a longer time. I have this urge to move out, travel the world and find a place where I know I can settle in comfortably.
Mansur
I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
---Mark Twain
6 comments:
I love this quote. I remember reading Huckleberry Finn in high school and at the time i thought it was crap, but your thought got me thinking again and I think I will start reading it again. HIs whole idea of getting out from where we are stationed in life, to explore and discover new people and things is so amazing. Ok, now, my first venture will be to go to my local bookshop and get the book. :-)
Mansour;
I liked you post,
but where is exactly house?? where is home really ?
i miss my country, but ...
the quote is deep, i liked it
cheers
I think its nice to travl and live in different parts of the world. I love travelling not as a tourist, but mixing with locals learn the language and the culture. Since I am such a boring person, I will have something to talk about :)
Hanieh,
I think you and I know exactly where our "real" home is. We are indeed called "aliens" on this planet.
Mansur
Nash,
I think thats the best way to travel, to mix in with the local, because that's when you see the "real" side of a country and its people. I don't think you are a boring person, what made you say that?
Mansur
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