Quality of life is often listed as one of the key reason for migrating to different country, or different place. For example, some the common reasons for migrating from India to countries abroad often include

  • The economic hardships and lower income,
  • Search of better employment,
  • Better education system or higher education,
  • Better medical facilities,
  • Ability to start and operate a business with minimum political and social corruption,
  • Financial and economic opportunities in a foreign land…etc.

All these facilities and much more developed infra structure, combined with financial advantages, add to the comforts of day-to-day life abroad. As a result, based on all this, it does make a difference to the quality of life.

Over the last many years, however, there have been lots of discussions about expatriates and NRIs going back home. There is even a cool term coined for it – R2I : return to India.

Why are lots of Indians returning to India? Guess what – one of the most common reasons for R2I is ‘quality of life’ back home.

So, many of us first leave India looking for a better life abroad. After years, or decades – whatever the circumstances dictate – we head back home, looking for a better life. Going in circle is the irony of life.

So, are we going in circle for nothing? Probably not, there is always something to gain. It could be financial gain, better education, or experience of traveling, exploring new places, new cultures or just living abroad.

It’s our nature; we are never satisfied with what we have, what we got in our hand. We are always more interested in what we don’t have in our hand. We are always looking for something bigger, something better, the next step. And, in this ambitious search for a better life, we in fact lose the real quality of life sometimes.

Be it monetary gains, providing better resources for the family or just greed – our focus is often the short term goals. In the long run however, we end up giving away years of life to running around like a chicken with its head cut off.

The irony of life is that we spend away better part of the prime years of our life searching for something better, something more perfect than present.

May be it’s about time to take a break, enjoy the present and make sure that we have our priorities in order. Let us start with what matters the most to us today, and then worry about tomorrow. We are too busy and too occupied trying to improve the quality of the future life, and sacrificing the present as a result. May be it is about time to realize that life happens in the present.

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