Dear Niki:

I can’t help you with decisions about choosing more education, further employment in India or moving abroad. I hope someone with experience in these areas can help you. I like it that your family is supportive and had a meeting to figure these things out.

What I hope to be helpful with is your attitude regarding regret: “what life has in store for me except regrets” over “all the years I have wasted” while comparing yourself to others: ” I now see so many of my cousins and friends settling down with wonderful guys and also move abroad, some have already established careers there.. ”

This is my hopeful helpful input:

1. Most people waste most of their lives. This is the norm, not the exception.
2. When we fees that our life sucks (your word) we view other people’s lives as glorious when those are far from being glorious.

I wasted many more years than you have, in suffering and dysfunction. And all I have is now, this moment, this day, and maybe tomorrow. Same for you. As I suggested to you earlier on your thread, make this the Beginning, not the End.

anita