Finally I know the reason why after years I don’t feel @home in dehradun. Why I find it tough to relate myself with this place. Why with absolute beauty around I don’t enjoy being here? What is so fascinating about Delhi that I fight odds out to be there whenever possible?
My family shifted to dehradun after 17years of long stay in Delhi. My life in Delhi revolved around my family. I was kind of introvert in initial few years of my teen. Delhi is defined as ‘Delhi-dill valo ki’ and it is really. Our neighbors were part of our life more than our relative (as we spend more time with them) and that what makes it special. I still remember I could find my mom chatting with my favorite aunty living at next door for long and long instead of serving me and my brother lunch. Please don’t take the pain of thinking about their talks because that’s beyond our imagination. It is true that it takes few seconds to turn into someone’s daughter from a stranger (refer chetan bhagat 2 states).
Have you ever tried to be part of your mom and her friend’s conversation specially Delhi auntie’s (I am counting my mom in too)? If not, very good, never try: P. I have been victim of this many times. This might be shocking, but uncountable times I have been booked for marriage with someone’s distant relative’s son in my early teen’s. Well you must have guessed major part of their conversation, fixing up singles: P: P: P: P (they love to be match maker) discussing recipes and blah blah blah. At the end, this is the life me and mom are longing for again. Dehradun failed to provide those familiar relations again in our life. People are not bothered about the next door person. The feeling of oneness is missing from everyone’s heart (at least we are not experiencing the same as we used to in Delhi).The pleasure with which all of us to used to celebrate festivals, enjoy parties , plan get-together often , share food is missing. All these small moments shared together makes life easy and enjoyable.
That is why my dear friends I don’t relate myself to Dehradun so easily because my heart still lies at the same place we left years back.
