Originally posted by: .Nafisa.
Chiks, I'm not punjabi but going by my own experience during eid, it's never the same ever again...when you are away from the people and surroundings, for example eid was celebrated with friends I'd grown up with their families and my own family, my mum would make the sweets and her friends also would make some and share, now I will go buy sweets no problem but definitely isn't the same, the surroundings and people I celebrated with aren't there. I usually give all festivals I celebrated when growing up a miss because I don't want to have that feeling you have now, homesick.
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I can SOO understand this Nafs.. I've stayed away from family for 2 long years during college- and I can relate to these feels regarding being homesick..
Mera case thodaa sa different hai- I m not missing my ghar/ house in India.. almost all of my family members have moved to Cali- so I got all my people with me.. we do get together, and we celebrate festivals-😊
It's the ermm.. whole mood.. the ambience- the "mahaaul" outside-and like u said- surroundings during the festival that I MISS the most- example in Chandigarh we used to see these HUMONGOUS stacks/piles of peanuts (for sale) along the road side during "Lohri" time.. Kids would go out in the neighborhood to collect sweets and munchies (like during Halloween) and they'd sing songs at our gates and there will be some commotion on the streets- and markets would be decorated for the festival.. there'd be that particular smell of burnt wood lingering in the air.. I can go one FOREVER describing this one.. 😳 😆
I mean these little things that u've come to associate with these festivals for more than half ur life- and u sorta learn automatically what Deewali "feels" like or what Lohri "smells" like and what to look out for during New Year's eve- etc etc and suddenly u move to a new land and u get NONE of those- and ur friends on FB are exchanging pics and texting ya bout everything- u can't help but just reminisce back when u were there with them! 😊
I do try my BEST to recreate that impression (which I've subconsciously associated with the festival) but I can't- each year I FAIL miserably I feel- 😆 but I can't quit celebrating them! My family would NEVER want me to quit celebrating coz THEY celebrate it themselves! Also, I see these festivals as part of who I am really- I see it as a significant chunk of the "culture" that I belong to- some piece of my "sanskaar" - something that I'd definitely be teaching my kids in the future- whether they like it or not! 😆😆 So it's not really a SAD, gloomy oh-I-m-missing-all-the-fun kinda situation- it's more like gawshh- I-used-to-have-MORE fun out there rather than here.. I m not unique- pretty sure there are plenty others like me- so its cool 😆
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