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Assalamu alaykum,

I am grateful to Australia for giving me all the opportunity to achieve the best of this life. Twenty-four years ago I left Bangladesh mainly for higher education. After completing the education relatives forbade me not to go back and they convinced me by mailing paper cuttings of the terrible news of horrible campus life where I was supposed to return to fulfil my obligation of educating our youths the latest technological development. The dazzle of western life-style mesmerized me and motivated me to look for an opportunity and that's how I became entrenched in search of an Australian dream.

By the generosity of Australian system I have achieved all that a man of my standing long for. I am indeed grateful to Australian for giving me the freedom and the opportunity to achieve all that. But now that I have every material thing that I need for this life I have a great pain piercing my mind day and night. To be frank I find that a part of my body have gone terribly wrong. I am completely to blame for this.

When my children were growing up I didn't realize the melting pot concept. I used to be a 'progressive', 'liberal' and 'open minded' person. I let my children grow with the wind. But while they were at their teens I realized that something went wrong somewhere. My children were talking back to us very disrespectfully. They adopted strange clothes, weird music and a horrible attitude. At first it appeared temporary, what we labelled as a phase and so it appeared cute to us. But it persisted and got worse. They were ashamed of our accent and sometimes they are ashamed of our culture. They turned out to be selfish and very 'individualistic'. They were challenging us in everything - even if it is irrational.

Although 'progressive', yet I had an eastern mind that instilled in me the element of respect for elderly and affection for the youngsters. Naturally, I should not expect all that from my offspring raised in this soil. It seems to me I had the best time of my family life when they were young.

The children have left the home for college and rarely they come back to visit us. They seem to us as strangers. Now look back and try to find out what did we do to deserve this. I found that my wife and me are completely responsible for such an outcome.

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