Cross Continent - Father Son Conversation

From Dad:
Papa Feelings (My Dad wrote from US - His words)
25 September 2007

America- a land of opportunities and opportunistic people-selfish;
Clean cities; dirty habits; clean every thing with paper from mouth to arse;
Tall skyscrapers dwarfed spiritually;
Honest to the core but news of gangsters, rape, killings, sexual abuse of innocent children All the time u hear sirens of police and ambulances;
Nobody cares no one knows what is happening next door
There are no noises as we have in Mumbai
There is silence deafening; we are not able to hear our own conscience.

Son Speak (I reply from New Zealand)
25 September 2007

That’s the reason I never really tried to go there, but though collectively they may suck, for an individual there seem to be maximum opportunities.
In India it is opposite, collectively we are land of culture, knowledge, tradition but individually all feel smothered with quotas, reservations and what not!

Even in our own country we are 2nd grade citizens because we don’t know any ministers, VIPs etc, whose sons can get away even with murder! but we can be beaten up without anyone answering for it...
Wonder where is the middle ground, there is none...either you choose individual freedom or collective bondage!

And as all our saints say, the choice is yours, I laugh at this... with such choices I would rather have no choice at all...but then that’s also a choice..
Funny, unless you are living the pain.