It’s been a while since I returned from foreign land. And before getting back, I spent a fair amount of time away from home. I had always seen people complaining of bad infrastructure, overcrowded roads et al, once back from the west. Honestly speaking I never felt that way. But I did face some other problem. This one was subtle and hard to explain, I must admit.
When I came back, I had the same image of Bangalore, which I had seen nearly an year ago. However that was not the case. It was little hard to imagine this city undergoing some minor or major restructuring. Be it the signal free road to the new airport or badly damaged CMH road (due to construction work of Metro Rail), it was little hard to adjust. However any city goes through transition and one has to keep moving, keeping this thought in mind. After all one year isn’t that small a time frame.
I also observed this phenomenon in some other instances as well. Most of my conversations with my friends were either based upon incidents that took place over an year ago, or in the past couple of months. Last one year has become a big void and I doubt whether I would be able to fill it or not.
More hurting was to see a few people change, and change for worse in this time. Some, who were most trusted have been acting like strangers while some strangers have become good friends. Is the time lock responsible for this as well? Maybe yes or maybe not! Well that’s the way it has been so far. All I hope for, is I don’t experience this time lock factor once I get back to US. Because my mind would have the image of Athens, about 3 months back. Again 3 months isn’t that small a time frame for people to change. It's the ability to adapt to changing times and behavior, which is very crucial for us to come out of this time lock.
