Sometimes we all get frustrated at someone’s strange nature or behavior. We ,then wonder,
why can’t they act a bit normal,as a “normal” human being, until we walk in
their shoes!
When I joined in my new company, I decided to stay in their
accommodation, which is a sharing room. The whole thing was quite new to me.
The city, employer, people, culture and you name it. Abudhabi is a bit different if we compare it
with Dubai . When you come to Abudhabi,
after spending 2 years in Dubai, you won’t find happiness that fast.
Though I got a warm welcome in my new accommodation, I soon realized that what
I left in Dubai was a heaven. I was staying with my ‘friends’ there. I never
used the term ‘room mates’ to describe them if I had a talk about them. We
cooked together, ate together, went to movies and drunk together, and we hardly
had any disagreement or argument between us. Things were quite different in my
new place. Though it was fucking hard for the first few days, I slowly adapted
to the new environment.
There was a guy in my room, from a different state of India. Though he
seemed friendly, I soon figured out that he’s a kind of guy I never want to
share a room with. He over-talks
sometimes , kind of a big mouth guy. At night, he starts his international
calls. He seems like talking to everyone in his village, one after the other,
at 1 am or 2 am in GST. Does that ring any bells? Yeah, that’s almost 2.30am or
3.30am in IST. He disturbs not only his friends in India, but also his
room-mates through his loud, hollow voice, I thought. He never misses any soap serials which
broadcasted in his local channel, and thanks to Youtube, and I never get sleep
till he finish watching it. I, then thought, probably I might have done some kind
of sin that brought me here in this fucking place.
Siddique, a 29 year guy, who just got married, had to pick
out expat life to save his family. He had to catch the flight to Abudhabi, just
after 2 days of his marriage. He’s the youngest in his family, has 3 elder
brothers, who never took life so serious. So Siddique had to take everything onto his
shoulders. He is a school dropout. So he didn’t have much options to choose. So
when he got an opportunity to find a living in Gulf, he didn’t think twice. He
had to leave his wife, before getting a good post marriage bonding . But the family got into more problems then.
His lonely wife showed symptoms of mental sickness after few weeks. The poor
girl found herself so alone in the new place,without having anyone close to her,
to share her sadness. She had to do most of the house hold works in that house.
Soon his mother, got hospitalized and that automatically gave another load of
pressure on the new daughter in-law.Conflict over phone was so often. His wife
blamed him for her sickness and he blamed her family for not revealing her
sickness before marriage.Finally, Siddique
had to stop making phone calls to avoid the possible conflicts over phone. As a
new comer, he didn't have any friends in his new place. So he found some
comfort in sharing his story with his friends in India.He’s planning to move
the papers for divorce now.
Sometimes, you may have to deal with people, who seems so arrogant and frustrating. But, until you walk in their shoes, you’ll never know what kind of battle they are fighting in
their life. He never stopped frustrating
me and still continues his midnight, loud phone calls. But I stopped myself
from complaining about him to others.
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