Happy Living or Is it?

Living in middle east has never been an easy life for a common family. If you ask me, its like a small time prison for the kids, fathers, housewife, bachelors, dogs, etc...and I feel really pity for the kids who are born and brought up over here. I mean for a low income group of family, its not affordable to rent a lease an apartment for one year or more. Well, if you want to know the real fact is that most Indians living in this part of the world are already in debt. People staying in India like our close relatives expect that when you are staying abroad, you must be making a lot of money or you must be having enough savings. But little do they know that it’s really hard for their loved ones. But who has the ears to hear them out? Just turn blind to that fact and concentrate of PEOPLE LIVING ABROAD. These people to pay their debts in India or support a family in India or any third world country they sacrifice most of their freedom here.

You live like a king back in your home town. You can go anywhere and there’s this thing called freedom of speech. You can bad mouth any minister or president who don’t like. But here in the middle east, if you do that, well what can I say, you either lose a head or a dick or maybe you just won’t see the outside world. Even though I haven’t any need to go to such length but I have heard most of the people calling that. But in all these I feel like calling my home town brothers a complete idiots. I see them curse and all that stuff, yet they are here working like dogs. I see them (Labors) working in the hot sun like a slave everyday and getting all sort of names being called by their managers to get the work done. Of course, they are not learned people but still they do deserve respect for the work they are doing. Their camps are worse off. Around 32 people in one room. How pathetic can it get? 1 year they work and 1 month of vacation. And if they get delayed in getting back from leave, the visa is cancelled. But, if they can found a job in India, they would have their own room, unlike the 32 people in one room. They can at least visit their family how many times they want. And they are paid on daily wages rather than monthly basis. e.g. If they get paid ***750+150 per month. After spending for their personal needs here around or 300 and the rest like around 400 (i.e. 4000 RS) they are sending back. But if they are working in India as a labor, they get paid 250 -350 daily.. that multiplied by 24 days will be around 8400 RS and they still save around 4000 to 5000 Rs after their expense. What’s the difference here and there? Beats me.

Man can be real idiots at times, but I guess most of the common people working here are real idiot. And this includes me to. Well, I was brought up over here and see the big difference this part of the world is taking place. But I have good reasons for not leaving the country. This is a place where my Lord have sacrificed and I don’t think I could give up on this land. Even though its taking a turn for disaster. It does hold a lot of value than the eye meets.

Well, we all become idiots in some stage of our life. Some stay being idiots. Some accepts them as fate, cause that’s how life is and keep their Faith in God to do the justice. And others have all the luck to move on. Which category are you in?

Complicated Life

Life's never easy. If you see that someone does have it easy, then he must be a fool to show it off or you must be really dumb to notice it or not notice it. Cause everyday in this damn world, things are getting complicated. I mean really complicated. Like for instance, I am working in a construction field and as per our ISO procedure, we are to reduce the paper work i.e. by atleast 40% i.e. everything must be done and saved electronically. But in order to reduce this we have to do atleast 60% of the paper work to reduce that same paper work. so therefore, that will be 100% (paper work)- 40% (to reduce paper) = 60% (Paper work) + 60% (to reduce the 40% electronic use) = 120% (Paper work). Whats the point? Heck, i am writing this and its getting complicated for me.

In order to give the document directly from the Contractor to the Consultant. Just hand it over to him with the cover sheet, but nooooooooooo....it has to go thru procedures (procedures made by some idiots who does not have any work and show themself that they have a very important task), make a couple of the paper to approve those paper and then after getting it finalized, you have to make the cover sheet to get it finalized to finally reach an amicable approval. (got lost again)

I am staying in middle east, where things were easy during the initial years and getting very much complicated in the recent times. Most of the people here are great but at the same time, that most people make my life really complicated. I really like my uncles and aunts, but they being that age you would expect them to understand and no how to deal the worst case scenarios. But nooooo, they cannot set an example to younger generation or tell them in a kind way to these young generations. As you know kids or childrens have no knowledge of what they do. They do what they do, cause that how they are. My wife put on some gold bangle on my daughter and my daughter during the prayer time, played with it. After the prayer my uncle started scolding my daughter (which i dont mind at all) and he came and shouted at my wife (which i dont really mind at all) for letting the kids wear them. I didnt see any problem if the kids wore them, but yes they shouldnt play during the prayer time. But for shouting at my wife who really young compared to him, he could have told her in a nice way. As you know, some people takes the advice. Others let it enter thru one ear and let it out thru other, while others grumble and mumble and then there are some who reacts to these. My wife belongs to grumble and mumble category. It will be only a matter of time, before she moves to forth category (action and reaction).

You see its not what happened to her make my life complicated but its the reaction I receive at home that makes my life complicated. I love both my wife and uncle. I can see his point of view and her point of view. I cannot explain to my uncle that my wife is from different country with different style of outbringing and understanding and i tried explaining to my wife to let what happened go from one ear to other ear out. And so the frustration starts to sink in and voila.. before you know it, you can really see that everything around you is getting complicated. And finally you look upto to the sky, this really beautiful blue sky and ask God the only question which runs in your mind. Why does my life have to be this complicated?