Posted by: dekchidriver January 18, 2009
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Going back to meet your family is not reason enough?
I miss my mom dad and small brother like anything. I would swim home if I had to / could.
I think its time to realize where we come from and where we call 'home'. One of my friends was telling me, "You know Nepalis are probably the best to adapt to any kind of situation" He went on to explain that we dont really feel any cultural threat when in foreign lands. We are 'cool' with whatever the culture surrounding us is.
Thousands of us living abroad, sacrificing, all that we have known and loved, for hopes of a more promising future. We see amazing things, things that we probably would never have seen in our lifetime had we stayed at home.
But the tour is over. Its time to think about the green hills of Nagarkot. The crystal waters of Rara. The majasty of the Himalayas. We are the children of the mountains, and that we must not forget.
Yes, there is 16 hours load shedding (maybe 20). Yes there is utter poverty and maara-kaat and gunda-gardi and corruption. That is but a wound, and if there is no one to heal that wound, it could turn fatal.
I have a year left for Undergrad. Then another 2 years for Masters. Once that's done I will have a sense of personal achievement and I will pat myself on the back and say "Well done!". And all the knowledge and information that I would have amassed till then, in my 8 long years of tenure here in the United States, and all the good appreciative things that I have learnt from the people here, and all the solid framework upon which this system rests, ever so firmly, all THAT I will take home and plant the seeds right in my backyard.
So that one day in the future, even if I'm still not around, from those seeds a protective canopy nurses the gashing wounds that currently plague our lands.
Concluding, hate and negativism is easy to breed, and each individual mind makes a difference in helping spread it. Encouragement is like achaar, just a little bit will make your meal taste so much better!
Set forth and start the repairs, I will join you shortly.
I miss my mom dad and small brother like anything. I would swim home if I had to / could.
I think its time to realize where we come from and where we call 'home'. One of my friends was telling me, "You know Nepalis are probably the best to adapt to any kind of situation" He went on to explain that we dont really feel any cultural threat when in foreign lands. We are 'cool' with whatever the culture surrounding us is.
Thousands of us living abroad, sacrificing, all that we have known and loved, for hopes of a more promising future. We see amazing things, things that we probably would never have seen in our lifetime had we stayed at home.
But the tour is over. Its time to think about the green hills of Nagarkot. The crystal waters of Rara. The majasty of the Himalayas. We are the children of the mountains, and that we must not forget.
Yes, there is 16 hours load shedding (maybe 20). Yes there is utter poverty and maara-kaat and gunda-gardi and corruption. That is but a wound, and if there is no one to heal that wound, it could turn fatal.
I have a year left for Undergrad. Then another 2 years for Masters. Once that's done I will have a sense of personal achievement and I will pat myself on the back and say "Well done!". And all the knowledge and information that I would have amassed till then, in my 8 long years of tenure here in the United States, and all the good appreciative things that I have learnt from the people here, and all the solid framework upon which this system rests, ever so firmly, all THAT I will take home and plant the seeds right in my backyard.
So that one day in the future, even if I'm still not around, from those seeds a protective canopy nurses the gashing wounds that currently plague our lands.
Concluding, hate and negativism is easy to breed, and each individual mind makes a difference in helping spread it. Encouragement is like achaar, just a little bit will make your meal taste so much better!
Set forth and start the repairs, I will join you shortly.