We had a wonderful time and after all of these years of visiting I finally feel at home with my family. This trip was so different because I really let my ego go and put my family first. In the past I spent too much energy separating myself from them in fear of what may happen.
It has taken me all of these years to allow myself to let the walls down and become more a part of my family instead of someone separate from them that was just visiting. I came back with a peaceful feeling that I finally belong as a daughter, an auntie, a sister, a sister-in-law. It no longer bothered me that people asked why I didn’t speak Hindi or why they looked at me as a foreigner and why I had so many perplexed looks about why I was so Westernized. I finally came home…to my other home.
