Making the move

After cozy two years, it is time to make the move. As I quietly complete my two years in Finland, I also have to start packing. It is not easy to assemble your two years in two bags, and say 'adieu'. But I have got used to it, and I sort of waited for this day to come. When I came here, I had given myself six months to stay here, which became two years.

There are so many formalities to do before I move, things related to apartment, utilities and few others. May be since I don’t feel like going from here, I am slow to do these things. I still have not booked my tickets, so I don’t know the exact date I will move, or the exact place I will go.

I had the option to live in Finland forever, but I was not sure, I would like to be away from India in permanent terms. I had made few other plans, but none of them materialized. As the quote from Napoleon goes - which is on the top of my blog – I can only make calculations, fate does the rest. The only thing I know for now is that whenever I am gone from here, I am taking a month long vacation.

I was reading my archive, the post, which I did on my first year in Finland; I found it refreshing and satisfying that I have experienced more things in my second year than the first. It is too obvious for me to even think of this - the two years, I have lived here has been the best and most satisfying period of my life in every sense.

It would be false if I say, I won’t be sad while leaving this place. But it was only these two years, which reinforced in me that I can live and survive in any alien place, alien culture or alien climate or among alien people. I won’t be missing all this, because most probably, I would not get to come here again in life. The people I have known here, the friends I made will continue forever. I would always remember Finland.

The only thing certain in life is ‘letting go’.