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My journey from a boy to a men.

shiv writes
3 min readJul 9, 2024

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Father once told me, Son, always remember money is not god, but money is not even less than god.

With that thought, I applied for a USA visa because in India I was earning, but it was not good enough to make me happy and fulfill my dreams. And by God’s grace, I am in my dream country now.

It has been 6 months of me living in America. I came in December 2022. I was super excited to come to USA.

Let me bore you first by telling you about my first experience abroad. So I landed at JFK airport because the tickets were cheap in comparison to Newark airport, and I wanted to see New York.

So that was actually the best feeling of my life. That 2-hour drive with amazing views of tall buildings, bridges, and the Hudson River, I saw my dream in front of me.

I was glad I made it. I felt like Shahrukh Khan from his old Bollywood movies; my next stop was Pencelvania, to my friend’s place. I stayed there for 10 days, and I was just wondering, Let’s see what I can learn from this country. In my first interaction with an American named Paul, he pronounced my name as Shazam. They healed me a lot to be comfortable with them.

Everything was great — the culture, the people, the weather, the no electricity issue. It was exactly how I thought it would be until I moved to my place by…

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