It’s strange, isn’t it?
We live in a world with high-speed internet, 5G, instant messages, Zoom calls and flight tickets that can take us across the country in a few hours.
The world has never been more connected.
And yet… we’re all so far apart.
We are becoming disabled in this tech enabled world.
People move away from home more than ever.
To study. To work. To “build a future.”
Yes, it’s needed sometimes. For learning. For exposure.
But often… it seems we are allowing it quietly more than required. Maybe it’s just the system forcing us to.
All the jobs are in cities.
All the money, infrastructure and “opportunities”.
Hence we leave.
We leave behind warm meals, evening walks with parents, familiar lanes and families that actually feel like festivals.
We leave people who raised us - and see them only on phone calls or during a short visit squeezed between deadlines.
For what?
For a cubicle in a crowded city,
A rented flat that never feels like home,
Weekends that vanish in chores,
A salary that seems to compensate, but never.
The tragedy isn’t that we are leaving.
We were made to be leaving.
Why should we have to travel humongous distances just to earn a living?
Why should parents have to sit alone at dinner, while their child eats in silence miles away?
We talk about development. But shouldn’t real progress means people don’t have to leave home to survive?
Instead, we’ve built a world where cities are bursting. They are becoming overcrowded. Polluted. Damaged. Deteriorated. Irreversible. Losing their inherent beauty. Becoming ghosts.
The worst part is that we’ve accepted it.
“That’s life” - we say. But it shouldn’t be.
A job shouldn’t cost our people. Growth shouldn’t come by moving away from those who love us. Comfort shouldn’t be something we feel only during holidays. We need more peace in our lives. It should be necessary. Not something to be requested.
Most of us maybe not able to talk about this enough -
We are trying to be strong. Maybe we are doing it wrongly.
Success should never leave behind a feeling of homesick.
In chasing a future - we hope we are not quietly losing the home we already had.
P. S. Thanks to ChatGPT
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