Posted by: hurray July 24, 2006
Pratistha Budhathoki ... what is going on with her ?
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Yes, it is natural to worry about someone. And it may as well be natural to be curious. But to be curious just to know for the fact of knowing is different from being curious to show your sympathy or help. The former one is probably more of a nepali mentality than a natural human behavior. If I may, let me ask, what if the girl is not doing fine? Are you going to help her, are you going to go see her and give her a company or other financial or moral help? You may be living in a completely different state or you may not even know the girl personally where to provide such help may not be feasible. If it is to share the news with your buddies, than yes Pasu and Bathroomcoffee are right. Such curiosity is unwanted, or rather morbid. Let me give you an incident I came across last year on the way to Nepal. I was boarding a connecting flight from Bangkok to Kathmandu when a young nepali guy, may be in his early twenties stepped into the plane with some security guards. He seemed mentally unstable not knowing his name, his destination, or for that matter his own existence. He had a name tag hung around his neck, a small bag-pack on his shoulder and the guard told the flight attendant that they found him stranded and wandering outside the airport with the plane ticket. I assumed that he must have come to Thailand as a laborer and roughly got traumatized. The air hostess who was not able to communicate with the guy asked me if I could help. I volunteered and sat next to him asking him questions just to get some information about him and where he was wanting to go, but in vain. Then I saw few other nepalese in the plane who left their seats and sat next to where we were curiously, just to know what was going on, as I heard few of them asking to other people "Kay Bhayo?". And when the flight was about to take off, those people returned back to their seats. This incident left a bitter taste in my mouth. I was appalled to see how morbid one could get just as to please his/her own thirst of knowledge of other's suffering. And I see the same case here.
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