Feelings of moving back

Did I become less socially aware and less pro-active towards our community/country after I returned back to India compared to when I was outside the country? I find myself thinking less about things that I pondered freqently over, during my stay outside as an NRI. Especially so over thoughts that brewed in my mind when I made a firm(er) decision to get back to India for good. Such thoughts were over
Helping people in India in general - social service or "giving back" - Helping our old schools, communities, and elders who we interacted with long time ago.
Travel plans (there is an intense urge, but practically I have not done too much due to lack of time, and excuses of lack of roads, traffic conditions, facilities etc)
Hobbies - of running, Yoga, painting, trekking camping etc .
Alternate work - farming, teaching, etc.
Welfare and well being of our family (this is mostly unchanged) and contact frequency with friends.

Possible reasons:

Initial chores of settling down - renting, looking for a place to live, setting up of basic amenities.
Additional, increasing responsibilities - of family.
True travel obstacles - traffic/roads mostly. (lately I have learnt that if you take an initiative and 'let go of things out of control', travel is not that difficult in here, at least locally, during off-peak traffic times)
Quips from relatives (quite high, frustrates a lot - the "petty" things)
Beauracracy (experienced a little till now - banking, obtaining voter's id, ration card etc)
Continuous bombardment of bad news in our society from news papers and other channels, and the Big Rat Race.

In the long run I do not want to get so much into the rat race here in Bangalore that I forget the reason I moved back and more importantly forget the basic force and goal that drives me.
Two weeks ago on a Friday it took me 80 min to travel 8 km in flooded rain and stand-still traffic. Everyone around me was angry and frustrated, competing with one another to move a few of centimeters ahead of the other person. I never grew up among such competition (over space, time and over "My and Mine" stuff) when I was younger. In our towns and villages people were (still are) more friendly than here in Bangalore. The rat race makes you so frustrated and angry that you tend to forget the better things of life in this side of the world.

The only way to fight of this feeling of apathy and comfortable forgetfulness is to keep reminding myself about:
1. The things I intended to do when I get back home, and more importantly - execute the plans.
2. Appreciate the advantages of the move - closeness to family, friends (in a positve way), freedom to pursue any work anywhere, culture, music, availability of any daily, mundane "service", little things that we all loved from our childhood, the opportunity and closeness to explore our own country, and the opportunity to directly serve our society.