MY American Dream.
This blog is being written with a thought of waking me up.Inspiring me to work more to achieve great feats.I am happy that I realized it today.
I have all seen my cousins grow up and pursue their Masters in the field of their interests in the fields of their interest.They have all set benchmarks for people like me to follow their steps and become successful people.Right from my childhood I have been taught to study hard and finally go to the Us of A to pursue my Post graduate studies and finally settle in the US of A,earning heavily in dollars.Like all my other cousins,even my brother too has set out to earn his share of this Great American Dream.Like all of my NRI cousins,I too aspire to go and settle in the US of A.But to be frank I had just aspired for it and till date I haven't worked for it in that direction.All my illustrious cousins whom I look upto are all well settled and very knowledgeable.The best people to guide an American dream chaser.I have always find inspiration in them.Each one in his own charismatic style has achieved great feats.From a marketing genius to a AI researcher to a IBM stalwart I have seen them all.Well one might imagine why all of a sudden I am getting into all this American Dream Thing.It's not all of a sudden,but its the result of a tiny incident that I encountered in an unexpected place.An incident that reminded me to get back to the business of chasing my American Dream.
That day,my college was in the afternoon,which is the case on wednesday's,I have a physics lab every wednesday,from 2.p.m to 5 p.m.I had left home early as my friend wanted to write down something from my book.So like always I hopped on my bike and went to college.My friend arrived too,later followed my other friends,the usual fun talks went on.we went on to the lab and then did the experiments assigned to us,then after three hours of lab,I returned home and then hogged the food at home very quickly,as I was very hungry.I was just sitting in the drawing room and I was listening to music,my mom who is a working mother,came home from work.She sat and relaxed for a while and then turned to me and told me that there was a house warming ceremony of one of her cousins.She asked me to come,I don't know what had happened to me that day,I generally don't like to attend any functions as such,but that day I just agreed without second thought.After a lot of fuss from my parents of which dress to wear for the occasion,I had to bend to the dress of their choice.We all set off.My dad and mom in one two wheeler and me on my BIKE.We all reached the place with some hitches of course thanks to the dug up roads on the way.Finally all of us reached the place.
We just went through the house,looking at the different rooms.My mom's cousins leading the way.Met all other relatives.Greeted all relatives.By then,it was time for the best part,FOOD.I was terribly hungry and I was waiting to have my supper and go home.The hosts called us for having supper and I ran like a hungry lion insearch of a meal.Then supper was served in traditional south Indian meal.Supper was served on a plantain leaf,with all the traditionally made dishes sereved one by one.After all the dishes were served,the elders present chanted some prayers after which we all started to have our supper.There were many people sitting there.Among them were my mom's very distant relatives.They looked quite old in their sixties I guess.They had met my mom after a long time so she was introducing me to them,and my mom also asked what their son was doing.Their son like most middle class families had been to the US OF A to hunt down the great Indian American dream.He was doing his Ms from the university of California.On hearing this I became curious and wanted to learn more about the subject he was pursuing his Ms on.I asked his parents they said,his subject was VLSI, the most preferred subjects of all be electronic students.I was amazed to see how happy the parents are when someone ask and enquire about their children's studies esp when they have got into some good universities in the US OF A.The parents of such children who have excelled very well are extremely proud of their children.I wished and told myself one thing that day,COME WHAT MAY I HAVE TO GO THE US OF A AND pursue my higher studies.I told myself that day,I must do this,whatever happens.I feel I need to do this atleast for the people who gave us birth who brought us up,who gave us the skills to fight this world.The people who are ready to sacrifice anything for us,the people who are living only for us.I just feel the need to perform or perish.I want to really do it for them.This day comes as a reminder and this blog shall always remind me to always perform and give my best when it comes to my academics.
This is the ELITE VATTAM Signing off.I will become elite only when I achieve all this I guess.Until then namste bye and sayonaara.
