Building Nepal: Where should our focus be?
I was awake most part of the night yesterday, not because I was
thinking about the prospect of a brighter Nepal, but because my roommate was
producing a sound that was a mix of simmering fart, scratching balloons and
quacking ducks in his sleep. DJ roomie
in the house guys! Letsss parrrtyyy.
No.lets not.
But while I was unable to get some rest with those periodic alienated
sounds, my thoughts kept going back to something a friend of mine posted up on fb.
"Sudden realization: if greater and better Nepal means making
fun of
whatsoever party and not paying the slightest attention
to the 8 year
old kid who lost his hand; I’m sorry, but I’m out of this."
I still don’t understand why people make bombs and put it on
the roadside. Ludicrous. Or make bombs in the first place. There’s absolutely
no logic in doing so.
I later asked her, if she still sees her future in Nepal. I got an emphatic YES. She said, “even more so.”
Nobel, yes, but hard, beaten up reality is that Nepal is a failed state. The
recent election has brought out a glimmer of hope that things might change, but
it’s Nepal we are talking about. People don’t
seem to get the gravity of the situation.
The hard reality is, youths like us, can do nothing about it
right now. Yes, nothing. Even though we
can argue and waste our time, nothing is going to change for a while. At least
for a while.
We often regret ourselves by not doing the right thing at
the right time. Assignments?? pufffff, waking up in the morning for college Korean??
Ridiculous. And then when the GPA’s
takes a bite off your ass you go “oh yeahhhh, I should have.” Well, drawing similar
parallels, it is absolutely not the right time for us to talk politics or
development of our country and so on. It’s good to have the vision, but it’s
way too early to talk or act.
It’s just a personal opinion.
The question we should be more worried about is, when the
time finally does arrive, how do we start? Where do we start? Kasari?
Whynepal had [this] article posted about how Nepalese are
brilliant individually but collectively they suck. There’s no arguing about it.
He also had a [link] to a youtube video posted up about “Why we Nepalis have to
unite for our better future.”
Unfortunately, there’s not much
answer we can get from there. I vaguely remember Mr.Chitrakar speak something about responsibility and cooperation but those are the stuff we went
through over and over and over in middle
school, high school and then at home.
However, the fact that it’s repeated again and again shows
that those aspects are needed when we all have to wear red Rupa boxers outside
our pants and become supermen/superwomen to save Nepal. For that I think
these two aspects play a key role in how we prepare for such a day.
Networking:
talk to people, move around the class, say
hello, say hi, say whats up, help people, get help from people, make people do
your Korean assignments, do others assignments, talk more.build a network. This
is the chance. We are all young, exciting prospects of the future and networking
will play a key role. When the time is ripe, we will know whom to call.
Focusing on what we do best:
I suck at most of the things in
life. I am absent minded, I am late, lazy, disorganized, disoriented, lost,
annoying, the list never ends. Thankfully, I have certain qualities that are
hard to find in other people. All I need to do is now is to build on that and
everything will come in order.
Same goes with interest. There’s so much shit we can do in
this world that it’s just mindbogglilicious. Everybody wants to do everything, or so
it seems. It’s my final year now, and finally..finally I have found something I
keep getting interested in. It’s not beer, it’s not writing, it’s not music, it’s
not football. It’s something to do with my major and that is what’s propelling
me forward to work more. Devote more time. Renew my interest every now and
then.
I think with these two things we can really get ourselves warmed up.
hate that song.
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