What am I to do?

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I was listening to Norah Jones and I felt this was an apt song for me too. I sometimes wonder we human beings are always striving towards that unreachable star. We always seem to be on the hope for something better. I wonder if it's really stupid of me to travel all the way to another part of the globe, to spend so much of money in pursuit of what? One way it's great, you get to see another part of the world, learn about their culture, learn about your own culture and get to interact with some new professors.
Why is it that people who come here never wanna go? I guess it's the comfort i.e materialistic. You need to make a lot more money to get this in India but there is family and of course familiarity. Most of my friends are here. It's not funny the number of people from church park and PSG who are here. In fact I am not sure if I would have spoken to so many PSGians in chennai. I am sort of going through the same emotions that went through me while I was in bombay. I did not mind bombay except for the fact that people used to keep cribbing at office and of course some problems at my apartment. Why is it necessary to be away from home? He he the only thing being there(in bomabay) I had money and here not much:-)
I really like it here because everyday is so hectic and I have really no time to think. People keep saying that the social scene is really bad here but I have no idea. One thing I have noticed is that people work very hard here. I don't know why, but there seems to be more activity than India.
I miss the autos of chennai. How i used to curse them but now I yearn for them. Just hail one and off you go to any place of your choice! Here you need to have a car to go to places where buses do not go! Yuck!!!

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