Hi onebluethinker, I have read your thread with interest. As a parent and an old guy I think you and your mum are going to be fine. And you will be fine too. I am not trying to be condescending to you just giving you the benefit of half a century of being on the planet. When you are young it all seems terribly important that you should know all the answers right away. Everything is urgent. Later on you start to realise that you can let somethings hang for a while and work them out later. Your mum was giving good advice really to just see how things go for 5 years and telling you not to worry.
I don't know about in the US, but most hindus I know in the UK are very laid back about their religion anyway. They just mix and match; they do puja at home and keep some traditions just because they are a link with home and they like them; then they will also celebrate Christmas and Easter along with everybody else.
My exwife is Sikh but she was born here and brought up singing Christian hyms and all that bollocks. Religion was never a factor, neither of us could be bothered .
I don't know about in the US, but most hindus I know in the UK are very laid back about their religion anyway. They just mix and match; they do puja at home and keep some traditions just because they are a link with home and they like them; then they will also celebrate Christmas and Easter along with everybody else.
My exwife is Sikh but she was born here and brought up singing Christian hyms and all that bollocks. Religion was never a factor, neither of us could be bothered .
It's not immoral to eat meat, abort a fetus or love someone of the same sex...I think that about covers it
