On my flight back to India, I was watching an episode of "Frasier" and there was a particular comment that the character Frasier made which made me question my motive and is something that still haunts me.
In that episode, Lillith (Frasier's divorced wife) comes to a Frasier after Frasier Jr. had grown up and left home for his college studies. Lillith wants to have another baby with Frasier and sells him the memories of how fun it used to be rearing their first baby. Frasier initially falls for it and then realizes that it is not the right thing to do and makes the following statement "You cannot use the past to fill what is missing in your present life". It never works since memories good or bad are always intimately tied to the place and time and you cannot retread those in another time.
The reason it made me question my motive was, I was suddenly wondering if I was relocating because I wanted to re-live my past and assuming my kids will have the same kind of fun that I had growing up in India. I still do not know the answer to that and that is why it still haunts me.
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