Blog 2

Sacrifices

The journey is only as good as the people you interact with, the lives you touch and finally how you change your perspective on life. In that case this move to Kitchener has been an interesting one. With huge sacrifices being made being away from my infant daughter who was 5 months old when she left with my wife to India, has now grown up to be an active babbling toddler that is full of curiosity and zest. I find myself often asking this question was this price of being separated from my family overbearing, and yes indeed, it has bogged me down on many occasions. But then the driving factor is that even this will pass, and we will all be together in a months time, and having furthered my dreams this year, I will be closer to being a complete, confident and satisfied individual. Who will have the courage to say to my daughter to go pursue her dreams, because I didn't use emotional culpability as a shield to progress in life. Luckily, I have one of the most understanding and encouraging person on my side, and I am truly blessed to be married to Gurneet. Who has been the voice of reason on many occasions, stopping me from taking a flight to India midstream of this course and calling it quits. I have been on a few occasions at a point, where my threshold to endure was tested and I felt I wouldn't make it. But her calming presence and reminders of what we had set ourselves to do, was the driving factor in achieving this first step, of many.

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So with my mind in India, with my daughter and my wife, and my task to make documentaries in K-W area, I completely submerged myself at understanding the underlying reasons and solutions to the issues of homelessness. All in all, I ended up traveling to Toronto, Brantford, Hamilton, Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge, Stratford and Mississauga. I interviewed about 7 agencies and places of worship in K-W area: Lutherwood, Angus, Roof, Bridges, House of Friendship, Ray of Hope, Stanton Hall, Church of God, Sikh Temple, This was just the beginning of my dedication to understand the issues. It was only when I talked to several different people on the streets from different cities I began to understand the heart of the problem. More on this next Vlog....