After a very long time, I am missing living with my parents and the automatic stability and sense of belonging that comes with that. For the past few years, I’ve had the feeling this apartment, this city, was just a step toward something else and I was in transition, but that move keeps getting delayed for one reason or another. Now that uprooted and uneasy feeling is even worse, probably because all our shelves have been emptied, and the apartment looks as if we either just moved in, or are about to move out. Since moving in with parents ever again is impossible, and where they live in certainly not home, and there is no home in Pakistan either, how do I get that home-like feeling? Anyone else feel this way?
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find desi families around ur area... and try visiting them, SPECIALLY if they have oldage-individuals..i badmouth buzurgs a lot..but u end up feeling calm and cosy around them anyway :-)
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very true.... specially if the oldies are nice and wise.
but u know sometimes being around desi families makes me miss my own family even more
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I used to miss that feeling too, but I dont think i am going to get it back ever again. Sad but true. The way i think of it now, there is no "real" home except where all of us will end up going to. Meanwhile this time in the world is just a means to an end, what you call the transition period.
Since i have stopped expecting that "homely" feeling, i dont miss it anymore.
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old is gold
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Ira...I liked your signature... :)
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Whenever i c an old desi aunty on the train , i start missing my ammi, even tho shes’ only an hour away 
WHen i c an old desi uncle…buss… 
Hell, when I c an old chinese couple on the 6 train i sometimes 
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You are in lahore yeah Sara516 ? What are you doing over there? Howcome ammi is an hour away ?
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I meant when I'm in NYC.. my school is an hour away, tho i live at home..