Proud Moments

This generation celebrate each things through party. For single matter, simple things they put on party, but the organizer may or may not know what is the actual meaning of the event. They are only aiming party.

I was participated a "deepavali party" two weeks ago. Though the family meant to invite their friends and arrange a feast, I am not sure how many of them know, what is Deepavali. Even their kids may not know. I was the exceptional case there, since I am a non-smoker and non-drinker. Everybody was enjoying the wine, whiskey, soctch etc and had company; I was just away, but in the middle of the croud and was watching them. It was special invitation to me and was made and blocked my dates 2 months before. So, I can't avoid it. I was just tasting the food stuffs, but didn't feel to have much.

Lots of their friends, half of them married to Europeans, came. One of their neigbor, his wife is a European, came to me and had a good chat. Surprisingly, she is regular visitor to India and her knowledge about Indian culture is fantastic. I think, that is why she opted an Indian life partner. Her husband's home town is nearby to my home town; just 100km away. Our talks progressed like anything and was going through the distinguished cultures in India. May be we both were exchanging our knowledge. She has very clear picture about why Deepavali is celebrating and how it differes on each state in India.

Once she asked me about my age, whether single or married. I said, single, looking for. The next question was, from where. I said, only from Kerala. The reaction from her was surprising to me. She said, 1 in a 1000 indians settled in abroad is aware about, how precious is his country. Most of them are not care. And she was telling, you have to be proud, that you are virtually ruling the world and there is something in each Indians that make them different than any others. She was on the role and said, you must consider a girl from Kerala only for your life partner. The girl from your home town or your culture can boost that spirit about your country and culture. It was really a proud moment for me to hear it from a European, they were ruling Indians in gone days. The respect, the spirit and the acceptance to Indian, in each areas was making me proud. Yes, I am proud to be Indian. Wherever you go, you can find an Indian. One incident, I heard recent days. One guy went to Antartica for research on Eskimos. He found one Indian there.