Could anyone explain to me why I don't love the mother nature the same that I used to?

Question

I am originally from India, but now here in US for my flight training.

I am really in to nature. I love to feel cool, wet stones, trees and the left out drop on the leaves.My question to you guys is I recently found out that here in US I don't love the nature as I used to back home. I don't get the same smell from the soil when it rains. Not even the feel when I touch flowers.

It feels like I never used to love nature. What is wrong with me?

Answer 1

Nothing wrong with you! This is because of change of place and environment. You will feel the same previous thing when in India. That is the home sickness which goes at home only! This is Natural also, because we are formed and fed with a particular set of elemental compositions and ingredients, and groomed in a particular composition of environment. When it changes at other locations, the body and mind feels the new environment incompatible, and reacts silently. Some times it adjusts in due course of time, otherwise keeps the strong desire to come back to the original environment.

Answer 2

Probably u miss India alot ... so When ever u look at nature there, the first ting that comes to ur mind is, how much u missed the familiar atmosphere , and u don't appreciate what u r looking at.

Answer 3

I don't know because I don't know you but from my own experience I'll suggest a few things it might be connected to.  One is that you have a new focus right now and that's machines, engineering, man made things.  And these are taking up your number 1 spot for attention, leaving everything else pretty much in 2nd place or lower depending on your priorities.  

Also because you may have grown up with this sense of being connected to the earth and now you're older and basically, people change - what I mean is, even without your flight school focus or relocation, you may have just grown away from it to a degree.  Few things in our childhood remain in our adulthood, and many friends we have when young move on just as we do.

I suspect a big part of it is that you're homesick to some extent or, lonely on some level and this is how it's presenting itself to you.  

Finally, you have a natural bond with your homeland more than you could ever have with any other country.  Sometimes it may seem as though you're a welcome visitor that America's nature has opened its arms to.  Perhaps you can feel it at times and deeply enjoy it.  But the earth of your own land is always the richest, deepest and most strength giving because it has our whole past in it, and everything that means to us physiologically as well as psychologically.  Wars and famines and deaths and births and family and specific nature for our senses or soil types - but mostly shelter, refuge and protection.  While you can enjoy another country, it can never mean these things to you and as a result, we become less enamored.  

If any of this fits, I don't think there is anythign wrong with you and I'm fairly certain that when you achieve some of your goals in America you will later gain time and hopefully a sense of locality, home or away, that makes you feel a deep part of the natural world again.