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.

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.

My Reasons for Schooling

Mother would hold my hand, drag me and then would even use sticks for that matter to send me school. I was innocent; I never understood the reason for me to go to school every single day. I would try to make excuse of falling sick, but she would never allow me stay home. With a cane on her hand, she would frighten me and would take me to school. I could do nothing than to cry in dismay. I never wanted to study when I was a kid but my mother wanted me to study, so I went to school with frustrations hoping every single moment for my mother to change her mind and let me stay home with her.

Then it continued and I grew little bigger, may be at around fourteen fifteen of age, I started to admire beautiful girls. I was so fond of girls by then. I would always loves to stare at those beautiful girls with such contentment that it inspired me to go to school every day. Now, I would never seek permission to stay back at home because by then I was so much engrossed to see beautiful women and school for that matter is one of the few places where you will encounter profusion of beautiful girls. So, I went to school just to satisfy my longing to see beautiful young charming girls.

As I continued schooling, I began to think of becoming someone in life. My teachers would always motivate us to have ambition in life. They would inspire us to become someone in life, they would make us imagine ourselves becoming Doctor, Engineer, Lawyer, Pilot, etc. which were so fascinating and exciting to imagine of. As a result, I got inspired to become one, so, I went to school.

Now, I suppose I understand the real meaning of going to school. I guess I do understand the importance of “Education” in life. As we say in Bhutanese, ‘Education is like an eye to see the outside world’. Education is a very big topic and its importance cannot be explained in few lines. Therefore, I am here, pursuing my bachelor’s degree with the hope to learn new things, to learn more, to know world and to reform world.

Marriage for all the Relationships

I think relationship per se in Bhutan is a new concept, which probably made its way to Bhutan by late nineties with westernisation creeping in. When I say relationship, it is not that of mother-son, father-son, sister-brother or anything for that matter, by relationship I mean the relationship of a man and women who falls into so-called “love”, who wishes to get married and live their life together for rest of their times. Our society, which I quote in quote “primitive” only, knew about marriage and never came up with the idea of a relationship before marriage. People in our society in olden days were all subject to arranged married. For instance, the brides parent in “singay-gyalem” (one of the classic love story of Bhutan), did not accepted their love consequently resulting in the death of lovers which proofs the very fact that there did not exists the concept of love; parents were the sole person who would choose your spouse. Such traditional customs has its own pros and cons but then today I am here to talk about the new concept i.e. “love”.

Only if every relationship was given the title of marriage then there won't be any fake promises and so called ‘break-up’ shall decrease dramatically. The reasons for people getting involved into such relationships are solely of the fact that they are in love and have decided to live together. During the course of their relationship, they tend to make promises, vow to hold onto one another in times of good and bad and then they even tend to plan their future together. The person who is serious about their relation takes it as a reality and makes every possible means to keep the fire burning. However, promises fades, love fades, people are changed and hearts are broken. Consequently, those who were serious about their relationship gets into poorest situation, the pain they go through will be no less than the divorcee will. The only thing different is the title they get, one will be called “divorce” and the other is called “break-up” which in its meaning means the same.

There is no right for a person to ruin others happiness. If you are not ready to take the responsibility and commit yourself into relationship, you should not simply take the chance and fool around because at the end of the day there are people who are serious about their relationship and ultimately they are the one who gets hurt and suffers from so called ‘love sick’. One should not drag oneself if one is not serious. A relationship is a promise to love one another, to hold onto one another for lifetime; it is the same promise that is made during marriage where they promise to be more than just loyal and faithful, where they promises to love each other and promises to live their lives together for rest of the life. 

If it was just to know each other, or understand, one another for that matter then restrict to dating. You can go for dating if you really want to know or understand the other person rather than purporting to be in love and making fake promises. Marriage is indeed also a relationship but with a higher title. Only if all relationships are given the entitlement of Marriage…