As the clock is ticking, the time to return back home is coming nearer. I feel like sharing my experience of being in Germany which has indeed been quite important in my life. In a series of few blogs, I would try to summarize my opinion and insight about the people; I have been living with since last 2 years. I am a little bit amazed; to see how quickly these two years have passed. In a nutshell, these can be claimed as the most calm and soothing years of my life, yet full of happenings and packed of action on daily basis. I feel like I had just arrived in Germany few months back, when the world cup 2006 just started. It seems like a co-incidence that I am packing my bags exactly when the next major event in football, i.e. european championship is going on with full swing. Football seems to be like opening and closing ceremony of my stay here :-)
I have lived a completely different life here, something which gave me enough time to understand world, and even more importantly, myself. If you ask me what happened to me in these last two years, I would say nothing important, really. Rather shocking is the fact that even for most of friends and colleagues back in India, things have not yet changed so much. On even stranger note, everybody is just now seems to be gearing up to get married, change job, build house etc. It feels like as if time in India had been waiting for me !
My experience in Germany and Europe has been quite diverse, yet very repetitive in nature. I visited almost all popular destinations of Europe, except UK and portugal. To my surprise and rather a bit of disappointment, as I continued my journey, I felt more and more of commonness rather than difference in people and culture across this continent. Thanks to a rich Roman heritage, I hardly feel any difference in buildings and architecture when I browse through my gigabytes of photo collection. Most of the time I can’t recall which building belongs to which place. And about people, well its impossible to tell who belongs from where, unless they show a very specific pattern in their style and characteristics i.e. hair color, build, dressing senses.
Despite being so harmonious in culture, Europeans retain their acute vividness in terms of language, people’s thinking and their social interaction in life. I would rather like to classify people by their region, instead of their nationality. After historic implementation of European Union agreement, Europe has now having very fragile boundary between countries and mostly you don’t notice when you cross a country while travelling; unless you really see the signboards and equipped enough to differentiate between Dutch and Danish and Deutsch! So friends, here I present the first of these blogs, which is about the country I like so much… i.e. who else other than meine Leibe Deutschland, Germany ...... Lets talk about the Good Germans !
I have lived a completely different life here, something which gave me enough time to understand world, and even more importantly, myself. If you ask me what happened to me in these last two years, I would say nothing important, really. Rather shocking is the fact that even for most of friends and colleagues back in India, things have not yet changed so much. On even stranger note, everybody is just now seems to be gearing up to get married, change job, build house etc. It feels like as if time in India had been waiting for me !
My experience in Germany and Europe has been quite diverse, yet very repetitive in nature. I visited almost all popular destinations of Europe, except UK and portugal. To my surprise and rather a bit of disappointment, as I continued my journey, I felt more and more of commonness rather than difference in people and culture across this continent. Thanks to a rich Roman heritage, I hardly feel any difference in buildings and architecture when I browse through my gigabytes of photo collection. Most of the time I can’t recall which building belongs to which place. And about people, well its impossible to tell who belongs from where, unless they show a very specific pattern in their style and characteristics i.e. hair color, build, dressing senses.
Despite being so harmonious in culture, Europeans retain their acute vividness in terms of language, people’s thinking and their social interaction in life. I would rather like to classify people by their region, instead of their nationality. After historic implementation of European Union agreement, Europe has now having very fragile boundary between countries and mostly you don’t notice when you cross a country while travelling; unless you really see the signboards and equipped enough to differentiate between Dutch and Danish and Deutsch! So friends, here I present the first of these blogs, which is about the country I like so much… i.e. who else other than meine Leibe Deutschland, Germany ...... Lets talk about the Good Germans !
2 comments:
A very nostalgic post Akash; those onsite memories are still so fresh and hope will remain like that forever.
it was a great trip for all of us i would say
I was there for only 3 weeks. But i can grasp the essence of it. For a guy born and brought up in India it was cultural shock to me. Somehow struggle, hardship of life , being harsh upon himself is in blood for us. That is how we have grown up. They have shown me an alternative way of living. In short they have shown me there is lot in life rather than working hard for 12 hours and paying back EMI.
I was there on 2011. Since then lots have changed. Europe is going though a deep economic crisis and many (Mostly americans) are blaming there socialistic approach and relaxing attitude. I seriously get confused some time. It seems like paradise. But a paradise in threat
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