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“Home is not where we live, but where they understand us"

This is my first blog on any movie and I am not trying to review the movie but exploring the idea of ‘home’ presented so beautifully in movie ‘Away We Go’.

Even though I’d seen ‘Away We Go’ on the plane, I decided to see it again with one of my friend this past Sat. It’s a movie that hits ‘home’ on so many levels.

A 30-something couple – Verona and Burt – decide to move after Burt’s parents announce that they’re moving to Europe. The couple takes the news badly as Verona is 6 months pregnant and they cannot understand why Burt’s parents would separate themselves from the first 2 years of their baby’s life. They are suddenly rootless. Since both Verona and Burt work from home, they decide to move as their current home is a dump. However they don’t know where they should go. So, they end up visiting her old boss, her sister, his childhood friend, their university friends, and his brother throughout the US – seeking a place which they can call home. After a series of hysterical and/or moving encounters, they are inspired to return to Verona’s childhood home – a home she abandoned after her parent’s death.

While I have never taken such a journey, I’ve thought where I should setup my ‘base’ throughout the years. Near my parents, my brother or friends? or a new place? France, US, UK, India or somewhere in Africa? On an island? In a city?

I have lived in different cities but for me ‘home’ has always been my parents place. I don’t know if this will ever change and I will be able to find a place which I would be able to call home. Right now I am a homeless….

With love

Sumit

Sun Shine was delicious, rain was refreshing and wind brushed me up..

The summers in India were never better than this. The scorching sun of ‘Delhi’, Dry winds of Rajasthan and Mumbai rains could not be more soothing. While locals were complaining about the weather conditions, I was enjoying the every bit of it.

It was awesome. The discussions on cultural difference with mom and dad.... the long drives with brother and the parties with friends.... all these constituted the moments which one could make in lifetimes.

Time flies and when it is fun, it flies even faster. And now I regret that why I have gone to India, not because I did not have good time but I had so much fun that it had disturbed my life in France. It has been a week after vacations and I am still trying to overcome that mind set… that feeling to be with family and friends…. that smell of food…that noise of traffic.
While I was faultlessly robust in my quotidian, these vacations have shaken my phony settings. But Life moves on….so will I and soon will be out if these thoughts to be again completely immersed in routine.

I am lonely for something I don't know I am lonely for……

With Lots of love to Mummy Papa bhai and all my friends
Sumit(Sunny)