Our present and future look bleak because we dwell too much in our past. Our identity is our history, nothing to show for our present or future. We are bir-Gorkhalis, Buddha was born in our country, we were never captured blah blah blah.
When asked why we are still one of the poorest countries in the world, we always point to what happened 100 years ago. Play the blame game, Ranas did this, Shahs did that. What about last 50 years? Why are we still stuck as a country? Look at S. Korea. Opressed by Chinese and Japanese for centuries but it's GDP went up in geometric progression in last 50 years.

Bottom line, think what we can do now and in the future. Time to live in the past has, well, passed.