QUOTE (Em124 @ Feb 9 2008, 12:04 AM)
I have been wondering about the following for a while now. I would like to know your opinions …..
Do you think you will return to Armenia in your lifetime and reside there? Do you think you can just pick up and leave the reality you have been living for however long you have been living it?
we have 4 Family friends that have moved to Armenia and one more friend who is going back as soon as he has child is born, i say yes i might
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If you consider that you are an “otar” of whichever country you are a resident of, do you not feel a desire (however slight or great) to return to your homeland?
i don't consider my self an odar
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Ani wrote in one of her poems that we have all been pulled from our roots and tossed to the winds which have carried us to a forest we are not natives to. Thus, we do not bloom and grow to the full heiht of our potential. The heartache and longing of “home” has broken the heart of the tree…
i was 18 wan i left Soviet Armenia - it was best time of my life that i look back to, and most of the time that's the part that &*^%*&^% me up - life was good
no work, no business, no responsibilities....
Then i found my self in a new country .......
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But how well would we do in our homeland? What if we don’t belong, what if we have naturally changed our skin and the natives do not accept us as one of their own?
we have changed as much as our homeland or our brothers and sisters have changed
What if we don’t belong ??? well we do
Bing accepted - many of us are not, it's not our own fault, just because your family had to relocate do to sum *&^*(& communist or a regime.
some will never accept us just like the last time their predecessors did never accept ours. but thats one another topic .
i have seen so many Armenians who are visiting Armenian to show offff, going back and showing offfff w/t Bling Blings and expensive clothing, valet full of credit cards and
stories haw he / she has embezzled money form this or that bank and or the government
i'm not even going to talk about their behavior, frequent visits to TSghotner ...... and bragging afterwords how and haw many girls he had in this or that ObYekt... AxPer t@j@tsrinq erevan@ Kayfer... now haw many locals are going to accept us ?? not many do...
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And yet I see myself 20 or maybe 30 years from now retiring in a nice, small 2 bedroom apartment in the heart of Yerevan. I look to this as the destination and everything I do in between as a means to an end.
many people do - some of our relatives have a place in Yerevan, some still have the "Dachas", some are in proses of buying a new apartments or flat in Yerevan, each one has the same idea, i will go back, i'm going back, i wish for my own place in Yerevan.... but in realty none of them can ( $ ) even visit Yerevan every year
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Some tell me that I should forget about it. They say that there is no way I would live there after spending over 2/3 of my life in L.A. (At this point in time..)
no don;t forget, you are an Armenian and have every right to be in Armenia,