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Thursday, May 31, 2007

Are we becoming selfish??

Working for an IT behemoth can be quiet a life. Ask those who work there and their spouses. In a year there is atleast one trip abroad. Once you get there you are not sure when you are coming back to your home country. I mean we leave saying its a 3 months project and this extends for almost a year or even more. You are not only prepared to stay long with regards to clothes even mentally you are prepared to stay only for 3 months. When i came to london it was supposed to be a 3 month stay so i was more than willing to take this break, a break from work and from our countrys weather,pollution,traffic etc. But this stay has been for almost 7 months now and looks like its going to get more prolonged upto well only god knows and suddenly you start yearning for the noise, the traffic, the sun. You start missing your parents,your siblings and everything thats happening back home. All you want to do is go back and never get out of the country. While iam mentally processing my thoughts and trying the get the fact to my system that i cant stay here anymore i want to go back, i fail to understand my husband's feelings. I dont feel the need to ask my husband what he needs. I tell him to change job and take up somethng where you dont have to move out of the country and he is even willing to do it but he says 'the job wont be that good'. Thats when something hit me, i had been so selfish thinking about my own self and in the process i completely forgot what my husband wants. He loves the job he is currently into and a man's job satisfaction has a great impact on his personal life and health. I was going to spoil all that. I decided that I have no say when it comes to his job. He has always been on the giving end and i kept taking it from him and this time its my turn to give. Give him a chance to stick to his job. So i decided to look at the brighter side of the life here in this part of the world. After all its only after i came to UK i could see places as beautiful as Ireland and Scotland.
I feel that we people are so busy in our lives thinking of our own self that we forget to even consider what others want. Its time we say stop to ourselves and start asking people around us what they want. We are humanbeings made of flesh,blood and emotions and lets not forget that. Its time we respect the feelings of ones we love and start listening to what they have to say. This has been a great lesson that i learnt in life. Thanks to my husband.

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