This is a bit off topic but its about a journey where I realised my dreams so would like to share it with my readers. This story is not fictional and contains the true journey of my life. Do let me know if you have your dreams come true, i would love to feature it on another one of my sites and this as well.
It was almost a year since the reality of coming to the United States of America had been offered to me, which made me more than just excited because it wasn’t just an opportunity but a dream I had had for many a years.
The lure to come and work to the US was there since I started working and gradually it was turning out to be a dream that I wanted to achieve though not at any costs but with my hard work and dedication in what I did. I joined a US company in 2004, which had their off shore development unit in India and that’s when things turned around for me. I worked hard, and got the due recognition from the company which inspired me to work harder and harder.
Then came a day when the CEO of my company told me that he would take me to the US to work for him there, and that was when I did realize that my dream is going to come true.
It was not a very pleasant year though and I had to run around to get a lot of things done including applying for my passport ironically which was the first thing I should have done when I had the dream.
Many more months and paper work later I was here standing in a queue to get my visa to the US. The process was smooth and I walked out from there, becoming another one of those persons who could work in the US, all smiling and triumphant at the thought that I am one of the few lucky people who get to do this.
A couple months later I had got my tickets. I was happy and relieved that the time had come, though not as happy to leave a home where I lived with my parents all my life, leaving the luxuries of having my food cooked and my clothes laundered behind. Leaving my girl friend and all the times we shared together, never to spend those weekends with her anymore.
It was all too much for me to leave and I even had thoughts to cancel the trip but the courage that my parents and girl friend gave me lifted my spirits and prepared me for my journey seven seas across the globe.
The D-day finally arrived and I had been all packed, and ready to spend the next 20 hours travelling across the globe.
Emotional feelings were exchanged between me and my loved ones before I got into the check-in area of the Mumbai international airport. I was sad to leave them but was rejoiced by the thought that I would get to see them in a year’s time.
As soon as I got into the check-in area, I said to myself “Man I am going to be in the US”.
The journey
I had a colleague along with me who was joining the US office, so at least I had some company. The journey was about 18 hours with a stop over at Abu Dhabi.
We changed over at Abu Dhabi and within an hour we were on the plane heading to JFK. This plane was quite bigger and better than the last one; it had to be for a 14 and half hour long journey.
On the plane all I could do was eating, watching movies and reading, sleeping was least on my mind with the excitement and I barely slept for 3 hours.
As the captain’s announcement came that we were about an hour from landing JFK I got all excited but all I could see were white clouds and then the descent started, wow I had never seen a place as beautiful as these, big houses with lawns, nice roads, buildings everywhere, and more baseball grounds than the amount of time I had spent watching it on TV all my life.
Finally when we landed I again said to myself, “Dude!! You are finally in New York”.
