Abroad, for the Middle Class
For a middle-class person, one easy escape is leaving the country.
Abroad, most people are middle class. There, middle-class life is quite comfortable — buying a car or a house is no big deal.
In the developed world, even the default life is far, far better than middle-class life in Bangladesh.
But the problem is somewhere else.
This better life, most of the time, you have to enjoy alone. Your parents, your brothers and sisters stay back in the hell of home.
Anyone raised on middle-class family values then suffers a strange guilt.
Sipping coffee in the Swiss Alps and posting an Instagram story feels good for the first second; by the second second you think, it would have been nice if my mother were here.
There’s no curse quite like being born in a third-world country. I don’t have grand, big-shot dreams of changing my country.
I just wanted a healthy, ordinary, normal life with my parents and brothers. Where the five basic needs of life would be met, just normally. Is it too much to ask?