Hi,
I was born and raised in a city called Nagpur which is in India. My parents were familiar with a lot of people there and I had a lot of people from school that I knew and would hang out with. I felt really secure in the house we used to live in coz I'd been living there since I was like 8 and I knew almost everyone in our neighborhood.
Last year, my parents moved to Hawaii and I came to Ohio to study. I am 19 now so I basically spent 18 years of my life in Nagpur. I had NEVER left Nagpur for more than a month and never knew what life outside was like. And now here I am in a different country...and I feel REALLY homesick.
I'll be going to visit India next month with my parents but the thing is they are not going to take me to Nagpur (my hometown) instead they are taking me to a different city where most of my relatives live.
I've been begging them to take me to Nagpur since I miss being around the "familiar"and being around faces I've known from the time I was born. But my folks won't listen. They don't seem to take this seriously. They say "why do you want to go to nagpur now...we've moved out"...I feel SO bad when I hear that because I really feel that is where I belong...
AM i overreacting? I mean I've been pleading with my parents to take me to Nagpur coz of how homesick I feel but they keep calling me a jerk for asking them to do that. Has anyone ever felt this way? I feel really unstable right now..i'm tired of the new faces I see everyday and the culture which leaves me confused everyday.
Can anyone relate to this? Tell me your story...My parents should let me visit my hometown at least once every year..Don't you think so?
It's not like I want to move back to my hometown but if only they would let me visit...I feel really isolated and depressed...
THanks!
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