Saturday, September 15, 2012

........a giant leap for me - from Okhaldhunga to Inverness! I know, to label this as a giant leap, will be an understatement. From Okhaldhunga to Inverness. From basics to luxury. From scarcity to priviledge. From turmoil to smoothness. Perhaps no common thread. In a flicker of second, I can sense the majestic aura of this place called Britain (belayat......thats how we know this place in Nepal). There is answer to every question in this place.......solution to every problem, reason to every action and reaction to everything. People virtually can predict the future, plan their tomorrows and flow with their plannings. They know what future holds for them. Its a programmed country. You know what button to click and what to expect when you press the wrong one. In surgeries, I can see that insides of the human is same all over but not sure, why outsides is so different in these two places. Worries are different. In okhaldhunga people worry about their food, security, future, rain, conflict, disease, transport and lots of other things that people in inverness must have never thought of. This place never stop surpring me as i see people worrying about their holidays, gadgettes, systems, services, benefits, weekends, relations and yes, lots of other things that people in okhaldhunga must have never dreamt of. It must have taken years of hardship, loads of wealth and galaxy of thoughts to build a country like this. I can see people still contributing to maintain what they already have. I have seen them worship their work. Some little change they bring in the place they live, site they work and environment they breathe when put together forms a different world for themselves. We have a long long way to go...... okhaldhunga to Nepal is just like inverness to United Kingdom. No clue at what point people in okhaldhunga or similar places in Nepal should start to bring the changes. Probaly a to-do-list or a flowchart might bring things in order..........otherwise where there are too many things to cook and too many cooks, you can imagine what the broth will taste like.

1 comment:

  1. Well said Arbin. This is the reality of our country. Majority of us still struggle to fulfill our very basic need just to stay alive.

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