I shall miss my village...
By shibham
@shibham (16977)
India
May 15, 2011 6:47am CST
I born in village and my family sifted to a separate village when i was only 3... now i have passed almost 29 years in this village. My nostalgic moments of my past are still roaming around me. Those days when i played with friends under rain... the trees where i climbed.... the days when i ran after butterflies... those sounds of birds... those wetlands and rivers where i fished... those grasses which i cut for my cows.... those complains of neighbors as i stole fruits with my friends... those quarrels with village boys....and many more. All are still in my mind.
Now i am building a house in town for better transport. In rain season i have to suffer a lot due to my service and other stuffs as the roads become muddy and hard to ride my bike. When i was a school and college student i suffered a lot. My father earnings was not too much that he could build a house in town. Now as i have a good job, i am helping my father in building the house. He always said that he is tired in living here as transport and other communications are not good.
So, i am about to shift to my new house on town within months or next year ( probably i will not take a year). But i am so sad that i shall miss my village and those childhood days that i passed here and now when i see my surrounding, i become nostalgic. When you get up from bed and get various sounds of birds.... it gives you immense pleasure, is not it?
Please share your views.
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20 responses
@mylesnarvaez (5451)
• Philippines
15 May 11
hi shibham! 
a place you called home for 29 years is really something to be missed especially if you have good memories in it from your childhood. simple pleasures like the love of nature and its bounties are a hard act to follow when one moves from a village setting to a new town or city.
i was born in a rural town with only the most basic necessities. i was about 6 months old when the entire family moved to a house closer to my grandpa's. over the years, the house has been remodeled and rebuilt to fit a growing family. i remember having a few fruit trees to climb on too.
in 2008 we moved to a better and new house in a different village. the rural town became a rural city at the time. we have more space now, a bit of flowering garden but no fruit trees. and i have an assortment of animal visitors too. my favorite is the birds. lots of mayas fly across the house everyday. theirs are mostly the sound i hear each morning. hehe and some even visits me thru the glass doors of my home office. unfortunately, they didn't realize it's glass doors so often i get to hear bumping sounds as they flew thru the closed glass doors. boy, must have hurt. poor birds.
i would miss my home too if ever i move once again. but i'm used to having lots of homes as i moved places a lot over the years. for a lot of people, home is where the heart is. for me, home is wherever you make it. lol 
a place you called home for 29 years is really something to be missed especially if you have good memories in it from your childhood. simple pleasures like the love of nature and its bounties are a hard act to follow when one moves from a village setting to a new town or city.
i was born in a rural town with only the most basic necessities. i was about 6 months old when the entire family moved to a house closer to my grandpa's. over the years, the house has been remodeled and rebuilt to fit a growing family. i remember having a few fruit trees to climb on too.
in 2008 we moved to a better and new house in a different village. the rural town became a rural city at the time. we have more space now, a bit of flowering garden but no fruit trees. and i have an assortment of animal visitors too. my favorite is the birds. lots of mayas fly across the house everyday. theirs are mostly the sound i hear each morning. hehe and some even visits me thru the glass doors of my home office. unfortunately, they didn't realize it's glass doors so often i get to hear bumping sounds as they flew thru the closed glass doors. boy, must have hurt. poor birds.
i would miss my home too if ever i move once again. but i'm used to having lots of homes as i moved places a lot over the years. for a lot of people, home is where the heart is. for me, home is wherever you make it. lol @mylesnarvaez (5451)
• Philippines
15 May 11
i attached a photo of the said glass doors from my home office. it overlooks the guestrooms and a bit of the garden.
@shibham (16977)
• India
16 May 11
Hi myles..
yes, i have lots of memories attached with this village. Its too hard to forget those childhood days. the environment is so natural here and far long away from crowd and concrete township. nature is everywhere and i can feel it from morning to evening.
I have almost all fruits in this campus. I am attaching a picture of banana tree.
i have everything in this campus. flowers, fruits, coconuts, bamboo, pond all everything. Hmm... birds. almost 30 varieties of ethnic birds are flying here and there varieties of sounds give me immense pleasure. In town or city, you will not find them.
Missing our own home is really pathetic.
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i have commented on your picture.
have a nice day
@mylesnarvaez (5451)
• Philippines
16 May 11
i saw the comment in the photo earlier and added a sub-comment too.
you have every reason to miss the things that give you pleasures. i'm interested in flowering plants, as my mom likes to garden. as a tropical country, we have lots of bananas here too.
you have every reason to miss the things that give you pleasures. i'm interested in flowering plants, as my mom likes to garden. as a tropical country, we have lots of bananas here too. 
@bhabycatch013 (9150)
• Philippines
15 May 11
Hi Shiby,
It means there will be house warming then lots of food
If i have a choice i prefer to live in town or village far away from the busy street of the city but my life style can't take the Village life plus city is more convenient and you can easily have an access to everything.
Your dad is happy now for having a new house 
Actually i miss my hometown when i wake up in the morning the first thing i will see is the green field and Carabao i want to hear the sounds of the rooster trying to wake up those sleepy heads
happy mylotting
If i have a choice i prefer to live in town or village far away from the busy street of the city but my life style can't take the Village life plus city is more convenient and you can easily have an access to everything.
Your dad is happy now for having a new house
Actually i miss my hometown when i wake up in the morning the first thing i will see is the green field and Carabao i want to hear the sounds of the rooster trying to wake up those sleepy heads
happy mylotting
@bhabycatch013 (9150)
• Philippines
16 May 11
hi shiby,
Assam is quite far from my supposed to be destination in India but i would like to visit Shimla, Manali and Ladakh but i think it will be possible 
@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
16 May 11
I've never lived in a small village myself. I do get homesick though. I moved from Los Angeles to Sacramento, a day's drive. And while Sacramento is a very nice place to live, it isn't quite home...
@RawBill1 (8531)
• Gold Coast, Australia
17 May 11
It can be a bit sad and daunting leaving our familiar surroundings and settling somewhere new. I grew up in a small country town, but moved out of it when I was 21 years old. I lived only a half hour drive away,so I still went back to visit the town regularly until I moved 1800 kilometres away when I was 28. I have lived here for 10 years now away from my parents and family who still live in the same area. My parents are still in the same house.
But now my next adventure is about to begin. We have sold our house and are moving in a couple of weeks to another town not far away. It will be sad to leave this house as our children have grown up here over the last ten years and there are a lot of memories attached to this house, but it is time to move on and we are looking forward to the next chapter in or lives.
So, in a way, I know how you feel my friend. 
So, in a way, I know how you feel my friend. @RawBill1 (8531)
• Gold Coast, Australia
19 May 11
It has been 17 years since I left my home town and I do not miss it at all now. These days I consider the whole city that I live in to be my home town. My kis have grown up here so it has more meaning to me than the town I grew up in. I lost contsct with a lot of friends over the years, but due to Faceboook, I have reconnected with some of them again.
@CTHanum (8234)
• Malaysia
15 May 11
My village and hometown is my home now and forever. It always be the same since I was a kid. Mean that we already live here for 20 years something. Sometimes I feel jealous to those people like your experience which is different than mine but different people will encounter different life. Sometimes I ever think to move on and leave everything I have here and start the new life but I am glad I am still here somehow~
@shibham (16977)
• India
16 May 11
Hi hanum..
Very glad to know that you are still attached with your birth place. I did not want to leave this place even never imagined on my teen ages that one day i shall leave this place. but its the reality that i am about to face it. anyway, time will help me in surviving there.
have a nice day.
@Sreekala (34312)
• India
19 May 11
Hello Shibham,
So your new house is ready for living
, it is really a pleasant news to all of us. Congrats for the new house. I know shifting from the village is somewhat painful as you live long time in village. It is natural to miss the good things in village but on the other hand you have to leave the place for a better life or convenient life. If you want you can go anytime to your village as it is safe there. Once you start the life in city you will understand how sweet was your village life.
, it is really a pleasant news to all of us. Congrats for the new house. I know shifting from the village is somewhat painful as you live long time in village. It is natural to miss the good things in village but on the other hand you have to leave the place for a better life or convenient life. If you want you can go anytime to your village as it is safe there. Once you start the life in city you will understand how sweet was your village life. 
@jazel_juan (15747)
• Philippines
16 May 11
more blessings in life huh. we will always miss everything that was part of our lives and in your case that was part of your life that you will always miss.
@jaiho2009 (39142)
• Philippines
15 May 11
dear bhai,
I was born in the other part of my country,it's in the Southern part,and i really missed my childhood days on that place where i was born and lived for 15 years.
I missed my friends and classmates,but some of them i found in a social site and still have a good communication with them.
Well, that's good to hear that you are building your own house in town.
Then,it won't be hard for me to find you ,but i would still prefer to stay in your village...i like the photo..and i am sure i will enjoy that place 
@shibham (16977)
• India
16 May 11
Hi didi...
The village boys are not around me as most of them are low educated and are cultivators and handicraftsmen now. There is no chance to meet them on social sites.
You are always welcome to my village but be hurry as i am about to leave this village. Give a look on the picture added.
Have a nice day.
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@jaiho2009 (39142)
• Philippines
16 May 11
dear bhai,
it's fine if you are leaving..i can still stay in your village right? hehehe
and i guess those cultivators and handicraftsmen and i will get along well...as i am into arts and i love handicrafts 
@Angelgirl16 (2171)
• United States
15 May 11
Leaving your childhood village, I am sure, is very difficult. However, if we don't grow up and move on to better things in our lives, we will get stuck in a rut. It is a good thing that you are doing, helping yourself and your dad to be able to living in better conditions. I too grow up and moved away from my hometown, as did many many people. Childhood nostalgia is part of our history, our existence. We can embrace the memories and move on through our futures or will can sorrowfully mourn the past.[em]happy[/em I think you should embrace your bright future.
@shibham (16977)
• India
16 May 11
Hi angel...
This is the life. Where we have to gain something, then must have to lose something. Life never lies in a line and runs according to our wish. There are all turnings everywhere and every turning teaches us something and its beneficial to us.
I think i will be able to adjust myself there.
Have a nice day.
@Angelgirl16 (2171)
• United States
22 May 11
I am sure you will be just fine, even though you will miss the past you will go on to a brihter future.
@thesids (22180)
• Bhubaneswar, India
15 May 11
Hi mamu 
Fantastic news for me... At least I understand your love for your home place and the place where you stayed for almost all your life. We never stayed much in our village but yes, I still remember the house where I spent the first 25 years of my life and it is really miserable at times... many a times I still have dreams of the great days that I had spent in that house with me, my grandparents and then my parents. I wished that dad never had to suffer a loss in the business and mom never needed any money for her operations during those days else... we still would have been in that house...
But no worries, you will treasure these moments and there are high chances that you can return to your village to spend your weekends or holidays there as you are not planning to sell that place off... We had to sell it off to recover and now they have broken the house and there stands a multi-storeyed apartment...
Fantastic news for me... At least I understand your love for your home place and the place where you stayed for almost all your life. We never stayed much in our village but yes, I still remember the house where I spent the first 25 years of my life and it is really miserable at times... many a times I still have dreams of the great days that I had spent in that house with me, my grandparents and then my parents. I wished that dad never had to suffer a loss in the business and mom never needed any money for her operations during those days else... we still would have been in that house...
But no worries, you will treasure these moments and there are high chances that you can return to your village to spend your weekends or holidays there as you are not planning to sell that place off... We had to sell it off to recover and now they have broken the house and there stands a multi-storeyed apartment...@shibham (16977)
• India
16 May 11
Hi mamu...
Home home sweet home, there is no place like home.
When i was 3, mom told to dad to buy a land on town as at that time the price was not so high. but he was adamant and wished to live in village. So, he bought this land in village but now regretting for communication problem.
Well, dad is about to sell this home and already customer is ready to buy. So i shall miss my home too...
Have a nice day.
@sweet_pea (3322)
• Philippines
17 May 11
Last weekend I saw and heard a bird chirping through our window sill.
I asked myself if people who are living in the metro still experience that.
It was in fact, a breath of fresh air in my life just to appreciate that moment.
Change is inevitable. Nothing is constant in this world but change.
Sometimes we just had to choose comfort living at the expense of a very simple life.
I can totally imagine how you feel living your childhood home and I can relate.
I also had lived in one and I had fond memories of them too.
How I miss the days. In fact when I think of my retirement, I want to spend my golden years in a farm where life is simple and peaceful.
@shibham (16977)
• India
17 May 11
Hi here in my home birds are everywhere. They chirp around my home and many varieties of them exist. the fresh air is always here in village. no pollution and no problem of global warming.
yes, my whole life is attached with this village and have some unforgettable moments. I do hope so that after retirement, i shall come back to my village again, if situation permits.
have a nice day.
@mtrguanlao (5522)
• Philippines
16 May 11
Hello amigo!
Sorry for my delayed reply,was out the whole day,attended the graduation day of my son,am about to post a discussion about it but I will just post it tomorrow.
That's good news amigo,building a new house for you and your family. I know there's no place like home amigo but there are things that are improving. Having a new house means you are financially capable of doing so and I'm happy for you! You can always go back to your old house and have some days for a vacation.
Me and my hubby is still paying for the lot we loaned and we're almost there to fully paid,yahu! After that,we plan to build our new home just like you and I'm excited for it,really! Goodluck to your new house amigo,would love to see it when it's build.
See yah!
Sorry for my delayed reply,was out the whole day,attended the graduation day of my son,am about to post a discussion about it but I will just post it tomorrow.
That's good news amigo,building a new house for you and your family. I know there's no place like home amigo but there are things that are improving. Having a new house means you are financially capable of doing so and I'm happy for you! You can always go back to your old house and have some days for a vacation.
Me and my hubby is still paying for the lot we loaned and we're almost there to fully paid,yahu! After that,we plan to build our new home just like you and I'm excited for it,really! Goodluck to your new house amigo,would love to see it when it's build.
See yah!@shibham (16977)
• India
17 May 11
Hi amiga....
its okay.
Nice to hear from you amiga that you are also about to build your new house. yes, i am financially capable now. i can go for the vacation but there is no chance to stay night as i am about to sell that house.
I have known from your discussion that your son is graduated now and its really a good news for us too.
have a nice day.
@RabbitCanFly (120)
• China
16 May 11
You enter a new place,and you leave them,and enter a new place again,and leave again.That's how life goes and that's what make life fantastic.
@qianlizhifeng (468)
• China
15 May 11
Everyone who is far away from his hometown will miss his hometown.It is the same when we talked about a place where we used to live. However,our life always changes as time flies.Some of us move from the countryside to the cities,or from one city to another city.As ordinary persons,we sometimes are just like migrants.There are a lot of stops all our life,among which the last one is called "hometown".
Howeer,there's no need to feel sad.If you like,you can spare some time to go back,to seek the wonderful momery which lies in the deepest part of your heart.
@shibham (16977)
• India
16 May 11
Hi friend...
as i have passed too many years on that village, its too hard to forget so easily and i think i will not be able to settle myself at that place easily too. It will take some time.
yes, i can visit my village when i wish. Its just 3 kms away from my new home.
have a nice day.
@dragon54u (31636)
• United States
15 May 11
Don't look at it as losing something, but gaining something. You are improving your lot in life and making things easier for your parents, too. You have the opportunity to meet new people and make new memories to treasure. You cannot avoid change unless you stagnate and don't really live a full life.
You can still go back and visit your village, it will be there. Enjoy it while you are there and then move into your new house and new life with a welcoming attitude.
@shibham (16977)
• India
16 May 11
Hi dragon...
yes, there are two aspects of life. when we are about to lose something, equally we are about to gain something. But sometimes its too hard to get detached from our current life.
Yes, i shall visit my village when i have spare time.
have a nice day.
@zhpshql (693)
• China
16 May 11
Hi,shibham
the rural life is always simple ,but very interesting...it's completely different from city life,,,people live together,,,they help each other,,when they get some delicious food,they shared with each other..
and children are not alone,,they can play with their neigebers..
people don't need to go to the park,,there has folowers everywhere,,trees,maybe someplaces they have hills,,even mountains...many animals live there......
I like living there...
@shibham (16977)
• India
16 May 11
Yes friend. You are 100% right. there are all simplicities in rural life which is unavailable in urban life.
I still recollect those days when i played with village boys as a kid.
i have added some picture of my village and you can get some ideas about my village.
have a nice day.
@hardworkinggurl (37063)
• United States
15 May 11
Hi shibham
Your house in the village is so peaceful, and beautiful from the picture. I understand how difficult it must be to leave such a wonderful placed with so many memories. Do try and say to yourself that as you move in to your new place you will enter it with a very positive mindset. So that in the new place you can begin to develop some great wonderful memories too.
I do remember moving from my home and do miss it terribly. But then I look forward to a brighter future remembering that what God has in-store for me might just be better for me.
Sometimes we make changes and although we feel a bit sad and weepy we must always remember that the future ahead may just be better for us, and we will not know unless we try.
Good luck and wishing you a wonderful new home.
Your house in the village is so peaceful, and beautiful from the picture. I understand how difficult it must be to leave such a wonderful placed with so many memories. Do try and say to yourself that as you move in to your new place you will enter it with a very positive mindset. So that in the new place you can begin to develop some great wonderful memories too.
I do remember moving from my home and do miss it terribly. But then I look forward to a brighter future remembering that what God has in-store for me might just be better for me.
Sometimes we make changes and although we feel a bit sad and weepy we must always remember that the future ahead may just be better for us, and we will not know unless we try.
Good luck and wishing you a wonderful new home.
@shibham (16977)
• India
16 May 11
Hi HWG..
yes, its really peaceful and beautiful. very hard you know, i definitely know that mother will cry a lot as she is more attached with my home. Due to job and other stuffs, me and my father stay away from home at day time but she stays all 24 hours of a day. she has good relationship with village women. they talk with each other and share their feelings. There will take a huge time to find same environment at the new place.
there are all changes in our life and every changes bring something towards our lives.
have a nice day.
yes, its really peaceful and beautiful. very hard you know, i definitely know that mother will cry a lot as she is more attached with my home. Due to job and other stuffs, me and my father stay away from home at day time but she stays all 24 hours of a day. she has good relationship with village women. they talk with each other and share their feelings. There will take a huge time to find same environment at the new place.
there are all changes in our life and every changes bring something towards our lives.
have a nice day.
@misterMR (796)
• Philippines
15 May 11
Oh yes. I really love your story. It reminds me when I was still a kid, but I lived in the city back then, now I'm living in a village (temporarily, because I'll be going back to the city for my sophomore years in college next 3 weeks). And yes, you would surely miss your house and your village by then. So since, you're still living in that house, cherish it. 29 years is really a very long time, so have fun and enjoy. All your sufferings may end but don't forget the sweet memories when you were a kid.
And yes, you would surely miss your house and your village by then. So since, you're still living in that house, cherish it. 29 years is really a very long time, so have fun and enjoy. All your sufferings may end but don't forget the sweet memories when you were a kid. @shibham (16977)
• India
16 May 11
Hi...
As you have said. its quiet impossible to forget those days. It carries lots of memories of my past. My childhood was totally attached with this village. Those festive seasons which i enjoyed with village boys are still roaming here and there.
Anyway, Time is the best medicine to heal anything.
Have a nice day.
@Idmega2000 (127)
• United States
15 May 11
Its really hard to coupe when we move to a new enviroment,
it happen to me some years back, my dad build a new how in the city and we left the rented appartment i have lived in from the beginning of my life, i just can't get rid of my childhood memory, this makes me realise i have to move on, but i often go back to the former city to spend some weekends, and that has help me alot,
you still live there now so cherish everypart of the village cos you're really going to miss it, and when you leave always try to visit , spend some of your time there
