The New Year

With the New Year approaching, the countdown is soon going to commence. The time has come to bid farewell to the present year and welcome the New Year. While on this beautiful eve when I sit on my regular chair and open facebook to see the updates, I do not feel good, it feels wrong to be in room tonight, it gives me the bad feeling of being here. I see people updating their status in facebooks wishing prosperous year. I see them updating their plans for the New Year. I can picture how excited people are with their loved ones accompanying them, I am sure they are going to party this eve. 

In a glimpse of time, twenty thirteen has ended and as I look back, I see I have done nothing but then grown one year older. I can see myself became old but I have achieved very little to be happy of bidding farewell to this year. I promised so many things to myself when this year started, but the result I see is much less and unexpected. But, then I feel good in some ways because the year has gone very swiftly, I did not get sick and I was fine both mentally and physically. 

At this point of time when the New Year is just on the threshold, I promise to myself to be good and to do good. I have nothing much as a resolution for this New Year because I know I will not be able to achieve so, I wish I can be good to others and do well to others.

And yes, I miss my dear tonight. I, on the other hand, am sitting on my chair with a cup of hot water, reading the updates on the facebooks and twitter, and wishing I could be one of those lucky people who are going to the party this eve. How I wish I could be there with my beautiful girl tonight, holding her hand and asking her for the eve. I want to empty my pocket tonight. I want to take her to the party tonight and spend every penny I got in my pocket. Such occasions makes one miss ones beloved so much more than the other days.

I see her in pain

The child out of his stupidity and innocence grabbed the running car that resulted a minor injury to his leg. His elder sister who is few years older than him saw the incident and comes home rushing, only to bring the dreadful news to the mother. She exaggerates the facts and says that his leg fell under a running car whereby he got hurt seriously. Instantly the mother gets shocked, she gets alarmed, tears falls down her soft cheek as she roughly stands up to run to the spot. As she runs forward, she sees her son there smiling to her. Her boy is in pain she knows that but the boy still smiles because he is afraid of his stupidity and he fears that his mother may beat him. But then the mother still continues to cry, may be now the reason is different, different because now she drops her tears out of contentment that her son is not injured much like she thought.

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When she gets there, I do not know the reason behind but then she started to beat him, he is already injured a little and on addition, the mother starts beating him. I wonder what she was doing. As she beats her son, I can see her in pain but I wonder what kind of pain is she having? May be she was angry at his stupidity or maybe she was happy that he isn’t injured much and out of anxiety she is beating him. Interestingly, after she beats her son, she holds his hand takes him home, makes him seat near her and she cooks his favourite dish for him. The child eats the food and forgets all his pain and in a moment, you will find him smiling again and going back to the field to play. 

The answers are all hidden in her; mothers are very difficult to understand. Their way of thinking is completely different, it is difficult for us to understand them in times but we know there love and care for us. We know how much they worry for us, we know how much boundless is their love for us, we know how important are they for us. From the moment, we are conceived in their womb they started to take care of us. As a mother, they did not let us be burned by fire, they did not let us to be washed away by rivers, and they have always been watching us with intense love and care.

P.S

I love you so much mother.

We are Happy

It is a beautiful day today. The promising sun has already brightened my village before my wake and the clouds are disappearing with the each brightening rays falling over them. I can hardly see the moon. I can feel the gentle air blowing around me. It is a beautiful Wednesday morning, promising me the luck for a day and making me realize that I am one day older than the previous day.

How promising my village looks today? I wonder if there is any place more beautiful than this, I wonder if United States for that matter can be compared with my village. I feel proud to say that we are happy and we have everything that a man would need for survival.

With the grace of mighty god, due to the kindness of his majesty and owing to the luck of people, we have everything, everything that a man needs in life. We have homes to sleep, we have foods to eat, we have cloths to wear and all those necessary items that a man need, just like the people in United States would be having. Starting from medical facilities, educations, and communications, we get everything. In addition, the interesting fact is that unlike United States, here in Bhutan we get “free” education and medical facilities which makes Bhutan a better place to live in. What more do a man need?

Yes, I forgot, they are advanced, well developed and the standard of life is much higher than ours. They have made so much of inventions that Bhutan will take another century to make it up to them but then we are happy, that is all I would say. However, we have our own share of beauty, which we care a lot and feel proud to have it. That is the “PEACE” we have the natural environment we live in is so promising and fresh that our minds and hearts are always kept pleased and blissful.

With such a beauty that we hold, we get number of tourist visiting our country every year and upon asking the reason to visit our country they answer, they come here to see the beauty of our land. They visit to see what they have not seen and it is a matter of pride that we host them. I am proud to be Bhutanese and we are happy.

As I move North

As I gaze outside,
I see myself getting closer.
With winds blowing, so fast
I feel frightened.
so, to ease my flimsy mind
I try to get sleep which seems inconceivable
for I am excited to see home.

Journey seems traceless
but my mind is set for the target.

As I move north
I feel safe,
it keeps me reminding that I am on my way
As I move, further
I feel colder, signifying home,
Home that I have longed for days.

When the train stops on station
I see people with patient less faces
wanting all to hop in
Now and then, we see seller’s
with sweets, tea, fruits and cold drinks and so on,
shouting their possession to be passed on
as I grape one and swallow
it gives me the fervour to stay awake

With each passing second
I feel closer
my nerve gets the information
that I am not much far from home.

Thoughts are surrounded by parents,
my love escorts them
with my sisters awaiting together
I dream my family standing there,
and all I need is to be there, together.

My another Mother

I feel blessed to have you,
With all those love and care for me,
Heaven gifted me with another mother,
I feel safe, secured and protected.

I have seen our mother in you,
You have inherited everything of our mother,
You remind me of her,
I feel like having another mother,
Yes, I do have two mothers,
and I bow to you both and ask you for your eternal love and care.

From toe to head,
From heart to brain,
I see mother in you,
It is needless to admit that you resemble her,
For you are my second mother.

The looks, the manners and everything,
Just reminds me of our mother.
I love you my sister,
You have always been the best answer.

I thank you with all my heart,
I might have been rough in times,
But you made things much simple
You were my best friend, my best sister and my another mother,
I love you so much.

I hope everyone is doing well.

The number of people that one encounters in life is extraordinary outnumbered, we encounter so many people that it is impossible to count. However, only some becomes our friend, and some becomes more than just simple friends, close friend for that matter and the remaining are left as strangers for all our life though we have seen each other. From the day one of our life to the last day of our life we encounter with numerous people, some while walking through the street, some in schools, some in colleges, some in offices, some in playgrounds, some in parties and so on. There are so many ways that one meets another but then in a matter of seconds we get departed. We know them but our life goes on and we gets to know new people where we adjust ourselves with them.

For instance, my friends from high school and me are now no longer together, we are separated by distance and the medium to meet is very limited. Now they have met new people with whom they have adjusted themselves and me on the other hand has also met new friends with whom I have adjusted myself. Now we meet rarely but we miss each other. I hope you all are doing well.

We meet our old friends somehow in the busy street of life. As I see them, I wave my hands to greet them hello and I leave them waving them good stay and promising to meet again in future. I hope all my friends are doing well, I hope they are doing good and having successful lives. I wish them good fortunes, good health and good life. I have so many friends with whom I have met, somehow in life and there are thousands with whom I will become friend, so I convey my warm regards to all my friends. I love you all.

I hope, you all have not forgotten me yet. And I also hope you all are doing well with your lives all set. Please miss me for I miss you all. We meet in blue moons but I hope you all are doing good, having fun and are doing successful. It is a short life we say but I am sure we will all meet again in life, do speak when we meet and if you are busy, a smile will do for it conveys your message to me. Through this short piece of writing, I convey my warm regards to all my friends; I hope everyone is doing well. I am also doing well and I hope to see you all, somehow, someday in life.

Things I have heard...

Note: There are three different points elaborated below. Those are the points made in one of the Hindi movies that I have watched and I found it worthy to be shared.

The first point is that, the main purpose of humankind to visit temples is for the purpose of business. We see people visiting temples, monasteries etc. to pray only for themselves. We pray for dollar, health, power, status etc. all for our own personal need. We never say, ' how are you doing God or hope you are doing well God'. If the believe of God providing us with wealth, health, power etc. is not there then will there be a single person going forward and making offerings. It is some kind of business we are doing, we offer them butter lamps, incense, milks and in return we ask for our wishes to be granted, which are infinite and unlimited. Here, we can see how greedy we are indeed.

Most of the people while watching discovery channels, geography channels, etc. where it shows the scenes where tiger, leopard, etc. hunts their prey, for instance deer. We pray for the those prey to escape and hate the predator. If the prey is captured and killed we pity them, pray for their souls and if they escape then our hearts tend to be relax, we feel happy and then we close our televisions and we go for our lunch or dinner for that matter, but in those meals, we eat fish, chicken, beef, pork etc. Surprisingly we do not pity them at all. How can it be, we pity for that animal and now you are eating one. You hate that tiger but interestingly you too are a tiger for that matter for those fish, pig, cow etc.

We eat fish; hundreds of thousands of people are always seen catching fish every day, there are also thousands of people hunting animals. We kill them every day in hundreds and thousands. However, if there is an incident where a shark has ate human or were a snake has bitten a person then it will be subject to breaking news. We will see the news in newspapers, in television news etc. people will make it a big issue. But on the other, we kill them in thousands and we still don't consider anything, there is no value of their lives. If they kill one of us, it becomes national news, so we can see how crazy we are, how cunning we are, how selfish we are. 

These points are something that one should take note of and try to analyse it because it is something that we are morally bound to think about. As a person, we can think, talk and do so many things that animals can't do whereby with such abilities comes the responsibility, responsibility to change the world and make it a better place to live in. As for me, I can not promise much but then I will always try my best to change the world in my own small ways.