It has arrived!
It came in a yellow DHL package, complete with extra stips, electrodes, instruction booklet, and even a return, stamped package to send back in 30 days.
How efficient and self reliant - Health care on the go.
Roomie peeked out from behind her screen of WOW , and said, "uhmm.. they really do leave a lot up to the patients, don't they?"
Can't imagine a scenario like this at home or Dubai.
Well, maybe Dubai now that is morphing more into a hyper reality. But not that i can remember in India, though, a situation where a process like monitoring your heart for 30 days would be left entirely up to your discretion.
What if I attach the electrodes in not exactly the right place as shown by genderless figure, with the smooth chest, in instruction book?
What if my baseline reading goes off because notquitethere attachments of electrodes?
What if they think I have something serious because of off-readings?
Uhmm...
Questions that shall be asked to the 1-800 number.
And it makes me think of how different this country and culture is.
Grafux Girl is going through the kind of culture shock that I still go through after 6 years here.
I miss the crowd, I miss the incessant chatter and I miss the feeling of never being alone. Of constantly having people, friends and family around. Of being able to support and lend a shoulder at moment's notice to close friend.
Because Redhead, Roomie, Giggly friend and BR, sweethearts as they are, are so so independent, that it would take a MAJ-OR crisis for them to lean on me. Major crisis + much prying and much questioning.
So, I come to conclusion no. 1
The indepenence, self-reliancy and privacy of this country's people has created a lonely place where all must tend to themselves.
Talked to N-Boy, friend from india here on conference, about conclusion no.1
and she says, and I paraphrase:
"Honey, Delhi is the same. It's just that in college, we lived in this huge community where we were constantly with people of similar ilk, that we thought the whole world was like that. Here - you're alone in the midst of silence, there, I'm alone in the midst of a madding crowd"
.oh.
So on to conclusion no.2
Maybe this is all part of growing up and moving away.
And I should just get used to it
being harder to cement friendships, and loneliness being a part of life and that maybe it wasn't all better when younger.
.sigh.
12 comments:
Hmmm... Things have changed a lot, haven't they? No more can you just knock on your neighbour's door for a chat just because you are feeling jobless. One needs to take care that their space is not invaded, etc., and we are fussy when someone invades our space... In the end we have all locked ourselves up in these virtual prisons... And i don't think we were wired for this...
Hope you are doing alright... Take care.
True.. but just that I had more friends when I was working in Bombay.
Here am always wary that I might be asking something too personal. Or have just become too old to make close friends.. sigh.
Life varies here. I am a private person. If I could be a hermit, I might do it. I talk to my mother almost daily, my father at least once a week. I have three friends - two of which I see and talk to and one that I exchange e-mails with but haven't heard her voice in 7 years. People think I'm odd.
But I know and/or are related to people who are constantly surrounded by friends or strangers and feel perfectly comfortable that way.
I think it's pretty much a matter of preference. You may have to search for the situation that suits you, but it's out there.
However, living in "small town america" and coming from a different culture would definitely make for a lonely transition. Sometimes it just takes a while for people to open up.
Hope you get all the heart-stuff figured out. It looks complicated!
I think I agree with conclusion no. 2.
We think back on our college days and think that's India. But that's not. its college life. we moved on from there...
people who live and work in india go thru similar bouts of loneliness... but i must says its good to hear someone talk about it.
for a while I thought there was something wrong with me.... :D when obviously that could never be the case
that heart thingy look a bit complicated. Hope you are doing alright.
ttk
Hope you're okay.
A DIY heart 'checker'?? Lord! and here I was thinking that technology was making life simpler!!
Missin the human touch eh? More and more of us are feeling that nowadays..
Depends where in India you live I guess. Where we live there is certainly no loneliness--if at all it's of one's own making only.
Btw, me hope you figured out the holster monitor ok.
i like the way u rite!!
Your roomie plays WOW? That's so cool! Me too! Well, I haven't played in a month or two now because it's been sooo busy. Now I'm looking forward to meeting her.
Yup, I have realized that my personal space had expanded now, and lately I feel like most people stand too close when they talk. Maybe I'm turning into a hermit, too!!! Yikes.
Hope the monitor works correctly, even if it's a millimeter or two off. ;)
M.L.
How do you manage to wear that thingy and go about every day work??
The indepenence, self-reliancy and privacy of this country's people has created a lonely place where all must tend to themselves
That's pretty much true, almost everywhere.
touch wood its not gotten that bad yet... but i can see it coming! hate the growing up!!!
tartrazina - i wonder if it is a personality thing or a growing up thing. BUT totally second the hate growing up bit.
Mr. j - truism
M.L :)
Altering abhishek - thanks
suemamma - I hope so too :)
everyman - yeah, the human touch is going, going, gone
thanks 3inone.
ttk & bungi - i HEAR you. definetely hear you.
sayre - i think roomie is like you, private and fun. I am completely the opposite but we get along :)
pea - same here. It's like you have to go through some many processes to make sure you are not being too enthu
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