Depression isn’t just being sad. It’s the constant feeling of sadness, feeling like you don’t have interest in anything anymore or losing interest in everything you used to love and made you happy. Feeling like finding a purpose in your life but also tired of everything. Some days are worse than the others and some better, but the sadness doesn’t stop. It finds its way back to any memory. As one of my teachers said, our generation understands health in two ways, mental health and physical health. Whereas the older generations rarely spoke about it. There can be lots of reasons for depression, it’s not the same for every person.
Someone might be depressed because they don't feel worthy of something or due to the death of a loved one. There are so many possibilities that cannot be included. It can be something no one has heard before or very common. I know this has become a common topic for everyone now. A common topic to talk about. But honestly, it’s not enough. The elders still haven’t understood about it, they don’t care about mental health. Only your physical health. My goal for this article is that everyone reaches it and starts understanding how important taking care of your mental health is. If you feel like you do have depression make sure to get diagnosed by a doctor, same with any mental illnesses such as social anxiety. Depression is not a joke, here are some sentences you should NOT say/do to a sad or depressed person:
“You’re young, you don’t have depression.”
“It’s all in your head.”
“You’re just doing this for attention.”
“Why are you depressed? You’ve got a comfortable life”
While some people do it for attention, the majority are seriously ill and need help. Make sure you think 5 times before sending advice because if they are opening up to you, there are so many things you could say wrong so be careful. Please be empathetic. If they do open up to you and let you know about their problems, tell NO ONE because you might be the only person they’re comfortable enough to open up to. Going to the history side of things, Hippocrates, a Greek physician, is considered the first ever physicist to describe melancholy or depression clinically. He has been known since Antiquity, Hippocrates described it as; "If fear and sadness last a long time, such a state is melancholy," he wrote in his book Aphorisms. Dysfunctional or unhelpful behavior such as depression is learned. Because depression is learned, behavioral psychologists suggest that it can also be unlearned. In the mid-1970s, Peter Lewinsohn argued that depression is caused by a combination of stressors in a person's environment and a lack of personal skills.” It is said. Depression is also known to run in families. It is very little in the early stages. The chromosome 3p25-26 is known as the depression gene, as suggested in the name. Nearly 50% of people that are diagnosed with depression are also diagnosed with anxiety. One more fact about depression is that, CHILDREN ALSO GET DEPRESSED. No one understands this specific topic. “You have nothing to worry about, how can you be depressed? You’re just a kid.” noone wants to hear that, they just need help. Do not say that to any child no matter what or it might cost you a life.
When people ask me, “Do you like math?” I say, “Aghh! NO.” I never liked math since I was young. The main reason? I do not understand it properly, I do not have any interest in it and I never got good marks as well. I always felt bored when I tried to solve the math equations and do any assignment related to it. Whenever I saw the questions I felt that the question was too difficult and I didn’t want to do it, even during exams. Now I am in grade 10. If you give me the question of grade 9 I honestly can't solve it. I never gave any attention in math class. When the teacher asked me if I had understood, I used to say yes but I really didn't understand anything.
Whenever math class starts I feel sleepy. When I tried to solve the equations and couldn’t I got very angry. Math was a nightmare for me. My mom always scolded me for not being able to study properly. My teachers asked me to ask them if I had problems but I was too scared and I really didn't feel like doing it. But now times have changed. My mom called me and told me that she had hired someone to tutor me. At first I was very annoyed. I didn't want to go to tuition. It was my first day there. I was not feeling nice because I didn't want to practice math all the time. My friend who lived near me was poor in math and she had secured good marks in the 9th grade. I was surprised to know that now she liked math and her results were getting better. I asked her how and she replied “You should never think math is hard and I cannot do it, we must try everything even if we don't like it, if we practice we will surely solve the question.” At first I also did not understand math but I tried to solve some problems by asking my teacher and from that day I solved some questions on my own and after those small victories it became interesting. I came home, turned my book but fell asleep. I didn't understand anything. Next day in school I asked my sir about the solution. I found it interesting how the answer came in a simple way. Some kind of interest started developing. Both my school teacher and the tuition teacher taught me in easy ways. Slowly, in school I mustered the courage to ask the teacher about the things I couldn’t understand. My opinion regarding Math started changing. I started being curious. I wanted to solve different math problems. Now every night I practice some math questions everyday. When I am able to solve the given equation, I feel satisfied.
We should never give up on things that we don't like. We must always work hard to make bad things good. If I practice more I think I will be able to do better. I will never stop learning and practicing.
जात धर्ममा किन भेदभाव
बदलियाे समय,
तर सोच बदलिएन ।
छुवाछुत प्रथा
खै के विश्वास हो यो
एउटै छ रगत
एउटै हो मानिस
खै किन छैन यहाँ समानता
टाढि दै छ मेलमिलाप,
जातधर्म फरक भनी
किन छ असमानता ?
एउटै होइनाै र हामी ?
किन घृणा ?
किन भेदभाव ?
किन फरक?
भेदभाव हटाऔँ
एकसाथ मिलौं
नेपाली हौँ सबै
यो कुरा बुझौँ ।
विश्व भ्रमणले, हेराइले
संसार देखेँभन्दा
पत्यार लाग्दैन मलाई
अचम्म लाग्छ मलाई,
विशाल यो संसारमा
थोरै यो जीवनमा
धेरै देखियो र भाेगियाे
विश्व भ्रमण गरियो
आखिर देखियाे के ?
नयाँ कुरा धेरै सिकियो
संसारलाई धेरै चिनियो
कस्ताे अनाैठाे
मानिसको व्यवहार !
संसारको रहस्य के हो ?
सुन्दरता के हो?
वास्तविकता के हो ?
याे बुझ्न सकिएन ।
याे भेट्न सकिएन
Hi, my name is Elijah and I am a social media influencer. I have more than 15 million followers and I am happy because my dream have come true but the truth is that I am gay. None of my fans nor my family know that and I am very scared that they will find out and abandon me. I’ve had many boyfriends but none of them lasted. I opened up to one of my best friends but they left me. Sometimes I wonder, am I just scared because of that one incident? I am currently 23 and I live alone. I sometimes feel lonely and I have no one to hang out with. I go to my mom’s house. My dad and mom divorced when I was a kid. One day while traveling with my mom I had a crush on someone but I knew I had no chance so I didn’t even try. Since I am going to Paris next week for a fan event I need to pack things up. In Paris, I was really drunk and did not know when I started talking to a guy and we ended up together. When we woke up he said that he wanted us to be in a relationship. I agreed because I wanted someone to rely on too. It's been 2 years since we started dating. Today I'm coming out to my mom and friends. Liam, my boyfriend will also be helping me. He was the one who gave me courage. I am so nervous I said and Liam calmed me down. When I opened up I thought they would not accept it but surprisingly my mom hugged me and told me it’s alright and some of my friends got disgusted and left but 7 of my friends stayed and comforted me. I still did not have the courage to tell my fans that I am gay. A few days later I found out something I should not have. I was shaking and trembling trying not to cry. -2 days ago- Liam was acting strange today I thought. He said he was going to be late and told me sorry and I told him it was alright. I was scared all the time because I thought he was gonna leave me like my dad. -present- I went crying to my close friend's house, my mom was also there because we had dinner today. Seeing me cry they ran up to me. They asked me what happened and I told them the truth. What really happened? Even I couldn’t believe it when I heard Liam and a girl talking, they were talking about how they had fooled me. Liam was using me for clout and money. His friend also knew that and he was also cheating on me with someone named “Alexa”. I cried for days but then I gathered up the courage and tried moving on. I hadn’t broken up with Liam. I came out to my fans and they supported me. In a live I told them my boyfriend cheated on me and was using me so they started bashing Liam. We broke up and now I believe in love.
I laughed at the last line. I was reading my diary. I am now 30 and I am reading this with my husband. His name is Jay. He was one of my best friends and somehow we started hanging out, then dating and we married. I didn’t have a happy ending with Liam but I sure did find the love of my life after that incident. Looking back, the fear of abandonment really made me hold on to things, after all if it is meant to be, it will be. I learnt that we should move on and try making our life the best regardless. Oh also, I have a pretty daughter whose name is Hannah.
यो समाज ले के भन्ला ? मानिसहरू यही एउटा कुराले गर्दा कति आफ्ना सपनाहरू त्याग्छन् । आफूलाई गर्न मन लागेको काम गर्न हिच्कचाउँछन् । समाजले के भन्ला,भन्ने डरले एउटाले नाच्न छोड्याे । उसले आफ्ना आमाबुवाको समर्थन पाएन । किनभने उनीहरूले पनि समाजले के भन्छ; भनेर छोरालाई डाक्टर, इन्जिनियर बनाउनु पर्ने ठाउँमा नाच्न प्राेत्साहन गर्यो भनेर भोलि यही समाजको अगाडि शिर निहुराउन बाध्य हुनुपर्छ । आफूलाई मन लागेको काम राम्रोसँग गर्यो भने यदि त्यो नाच्न गाउन नेै किन नहोस्, त्यो मान्छे डाक्टर इन्जिनियर जतिकै सफल हुन सक्छ । तर यो कुरा धेरैले बुझ्दैनन् । यो त एउटा उदाहरण मात्र हाे । अझै पनि मानिसहरूले यो समाजले के भन्ला र सोच्ला भन्ने कुरामा धेरै जोड दिन्छन् ।
आफ्ना सपनाहरूलाई आफ्नो डरले गर्दा लुकाउँछन् । एउटा धनी मानिसले धेरै पैसा खर्च गरेर पार्टी खुवाउँछ । धेरै महँगो सजावट गर्छन् । अरू मानिसहरूलाई देखाउनुछ । किनकि ऊ कति धनी छ र कतिसम्म महँगो पार्टी खुवाउन सक्छ । एउटा मानिसले महँगो पार्टी गर्यो भने अर्को मानिसलाई उसले गरेको भन्दा झन् राम्रो र महँगो पार्टी गर्न मन लाग्छ । उसलाई पनि अरूलाई देखाउनुपर्छ कि ऊ पनि कति राम्रो पार्टी गर्न सक्छ भनेर । यो समाजमा सबैजसाे मानिसहरू त्यहीँ गर्छन् । एक अर्कामा हाेडबाजी नै चल्छ । ऊभन्दा म ठुलो छु भनेर देखाउन खोज्छन् । समाजमा बसेपछि उसलेभन्दा आफूले केही अझ राम्रो गर्न पाए हुन्थ्यो जस्तो लाग्छ । समाज यसमै अल्झिएकाे छ । जो मानिस अलि गरिब छन् । अरूले जस्तो खर्च गर्न सक्दैनन् । उनीहरूले आफूले पनि त्यस्तो खर्च नगरे फेरि यो समाजले के भन्ला भन्ने पिर पर्न थाल्छ । अब ऋण लिएर हुन्छ कि के गरेर हुन्छ उनीहरू पनि अरूले गरेको जस्तै गर्छन् । यो सबै गर्नुको पछाडि कारण के छ त मैले यदि उसलेभन्दा राम्रो गरिनँ भने यो समाजले मलाई के भन्ला ? मेरो बारेमा के सोच्ला ।
परिवारमा अन्तरजातीय विवाह गर्न दिँदैनन् किनभने उनीहरूलाई डर लाग्छ मैले आफूभन्दा तल्लो जातसँग आफ्ना छोराछोरी दिए भने यो समाजमा मेरो इज्जत जान्छ । यसकाे कारण भनेकाे पनि यो समाजले मलाई के भन्छ भन्ने साेचाइ आएकाले मानिसले अन्तरजातीय विवाह गर्न सक्दैनन् । हरेक आमाबुवालाई आफ्ना छोराछोरीको खुसीभन्दा पनि उनीहरूलाई समाजका कुरामा डर हुन्छ।
यस्ताे परिवेश र चलन पटक्कै पनि राम्राे हाेइन । हामीले आफ्नो खुसी मारेर अरूले के भन्छ भन्ने कुरा सोच्नु हुँदैन । समाजमा बसेको कुरा सबैको हुन्छ तर हामीले यस्ता कुरामा मतलब गर्नुहँदैन । समाजले भन्दै गर्छ तर हामीले आफूले चाहेको राम्रो काम गर्नुपर्छ । यो समाजले मेरो बारेमा के भन्छ भन्ने सोचेर त्यो कुरा त्याग्यो भने पछि हामीलाई पनि पछुतो हुनसक्छ । समाजमा आफ्नो इज्जत बनाउनुपर्छ । आफूले सकी नसकी अरूलाई देखाउनको लागि कहिले गर्नुहुँदैन । आफूसँग नभएको कुरालाई स्वीकार गर्न स्विकार्नुपर्छ । सही कुरामा सबैले इज्जत पनि गर्नुपर्छ । तर अरूले के भन्छ र के सोच्छ भन्ने कुरामा आफ्नो खुसी कहिले मार्नु हुँदैन । हामी जे कुरामा राम्रो छौँ; त्यो कुरा हामीले गर्नुपर्छ । हामीले आफूलाई कहिले कमजाेर सोच्नु हुँदैन । यो समाजले के सोच्ला भन्ने कुरामा ध्यान दिनुहुँदैन । हामीले आफ्नो खुसी र सपनालाई साकार बनाउनुपर्छ ।
The major types of political systems are democracy, monarchy, and authoritarian regimes. Democracy is the most outstanding achievement of the entire Nepali people. The rule or system run by the people themselves is called 'democracy'. In this system all people are equal and all people have the right to live and speak freely. In a democracy, the people are elected by the elected representatives.
Before the year 2007, Nepal was under an autocratic dictatorship. The rulers did not work for the good of the country. They used all the income of the country for their own enjoyment. The country was getting poorer and poorer. People did not get big jobs. Only those who could find jobs like serving the royals could be found. Ordinary people did not have access to literacy and industry. Those who thought to bring changes in the country and those who opposed the rulers were hanged or shot to death. The Nepali people did not like such a rule of the Ranas. Many patriotic people lost their lives in the journey of freeing the country from the clutches of Rana's rule. The People's Revolution of 2007 AD is a great revolution in the history of Nepal. This revolution ended the autocratic rule of the Ranas. The Rana regime fell to its knees and the country was liberated from its cruel clutches. The ruling party lost the war between the people and the ruler. Democracy was declared on March 26, 2007, and the people got their rights. In 2017 BS, democracy was abolished and the Panchayat system was introduced in the country. For another 30 years, the Nepali people had to live in exploitation and suffering. There were many direct and indirect public rallies against this provision, processions, political parties, and the struggle of the people. In the year 2036 BS, this protest was intensified and on 7th March 2046 BS, the people's movement started again. In this movement, children also shouted for democracy. Villages, slums, and settlements were uprooted but many people were martyred in the process. After this, the Panchayat system ended and democracy returned to Nepal on April 10, 2006.
The days of Falgun and Chaitra are especially important in the life of Nepalis. At the same time, democracy was born in Nepal and it had the opportunity to be restored.
National Democracy Day is celebrated in Nepal on March 22. Various organizations, schools, and colleges take out rallies in their uniforms. The way the revolution took place and democracy was established in Nepal has its own history and its own significance. Therefore, Nepalis should be inspired to move forward from here. They should realize their rights and duties and make a commitment to uplift the nation. The arrival of democracy is only a golden dawn. There is still work to be done to bring social changes and enlightenment in the country. This work can only be done by uniting all the people of our society.
नेपालकाे शिक्षा प्रणाली नेपालीहरूकाे साेचाइबाट चलेकाे छ । शिक्षा प्रणालीलाई नेपालीहरूले आफ्नाे विचारसँग जाेडेर आफ्नाे तरिकाले चलाइरहेका छन् । जसका कारण नेपालमा शिक्षाकाे स्तर राम्राे छैन । नेपालका सामुदायिक विद्यालयमा राम्राे शिक्षा प्रणाली नभएकाले धेरैजसो अभिभावाक आफ्ना सन्तानहरूलाई निजी विद्यालयहरूमा पठनपाठन गराउन बाध्य छन् । यसले के बुझाउँछ भने हाम्रा देशका सामुदायिक विद्यालयहरू विश्वसनीय र भरपर्दा छैनन् ।
नेपालका विश्वविद्यालयहरूले आफूलाई समयसापेक्षरूपमा परवर्तन गर्न खोजेका पनि छैनन् । शिक्षा प्रणालीमा सुधार गर्न नसक्नु भनेको नेपालीहरूले आफ्नो सोच परिवर्तन गर्न नसक्नु नै हो । नेपालका धेरैजसो विद्यालयहरू र विश्वविद्यालयहरूमा घोकेर परीक्षा पास गर्ने परिपाटी छ । घोकन्ते शिक्षा कतिसम्म प्रभावकारी र दिगो हुन्छ यसमा कसैको ध्यान गएको छैन । धेरैजसो नेपालीहरू पढ्नु र बुझ्नुलाई छुट्याउन सक्दैनन् । त्यसैले जसरी तसरी घोकेर परीक्षामा राम्रो अङ्क ल्याए भने आफूलाई निकै जान्ने सम्झन्छन् ।
कुनै पनि बहुराष्ट्रिय कम्पनीहरूमा जागिर खानको लागि घोकन्ते शिक्षा प्रणालीकाे सर्टिफकेटले काम गर्दैन । यसैले शिक्षा भनेकाे व्यवहारिक हुनुपर्छ भन्ने मेराे मान्यता हाे । नेपालमा धेरै मिहिनेती सानै उमेरदेखि दुःख गर्न सिकेका विद्यार्थीहरू पनि छन् । हाम्राे शिक्षा प्रणालीले यस्ता विद्यार्थीहरूलाई अवसर दिँदैन । यस्ता हाेनहार विद्यार्थीहरूमा भएकाे ज्ञान व्यर्थै खेर गइरहेकाे छ । पाठ्यक्रम र पाठ्यपुस्तकलाई महत्त्व दिने नेपालकाे शिक्षा प्रणाली धेरै पुरानाे भइसकेकाे छ । विद्यालयहरूमा पनि यही कुरालाई सबैभन्दा ठुलाे ज्ञान मानिन्छ । धरै मानिसहरूकाे अतिरिक्त किताब पढ्ने बानी छैन । विद्यालयहरूमा पनि पुस्तकालयकाे व्यवस्था गरिएकाे हुँदैन । विद्यार्थीहरूलाई काेरा किताबी ज्ञान सिकाए ठुलै उपलधी ठान्ने साेचाइका कारण पनि नेपालकाे शिक्षा प्रणाली पछाडि परिरहेकाे छ । यसैले देश चलाउने नेतादेखि लिएर विद्वतवर्ग सबैले नेपालकाे व्यवहारिक शिक्षा प्रणालीमा जाेड दिनुपर्छ ।
While looking for aliens we normally look to the vast emptiness of space. But there is a bigger dimension that we are overlooking ‘Time’. There are chances that there were civilizations in the past other than us homo sapiens. Indigenous technological species that rose and died out with time. What does science have to say about this and what does this mean to us?
Life has existed on earth for 4.5 billion years, which consisted mostly of single celled organisms. 540 million years ago the Cambrian explosion heralded the age of animals, which is enough time for more than one human-like civilization to come into existence and die out. Right now we only have our civilization to look at to understand how civilization comes to existence and how it works.
We humans emerged about 300,000 years ago and lived as hunter gatherers. For most of our existence we made no progress until 10,000 years ago with the agricultural revolution which led to the industrial revolution which led to our modern society. We could say that our 300,000 years of existence has three phases. In the first phase we were hunter gatherers, farmers and industrialists.
So now we know that time is very vast. What we think of as a long time is nothing compared to the time from when earth came into existence. The oldest large-scale surface on earth is the Negev desert which is ‘only’ 1.8 million years old. Everything older has been crushed, turned around or is covered by ice or ocean. If there were aliens before us and they also went through these phases like we did then we would be able to figure out for how long their impact could be seen on earth.
Let's start with the first phase, the hunter gathers aliens. There might have been thousands of aliens of this category and we would never know about them because they dont leave any significant mark on earth. One of the most famous examples are the homo neanderthals who co-existed with homo sapiens when we were also hunter gatherers. But they died out while we survived. Other examples of such species are homo erectus, Homo ergaster etc.
Now the second phase, agriculture and empire aliens. Now looking back at modern humans, as many of us lived in that time there are more traces so it is easier to find. Many monuments we made when we were in that period still exist, like the coliseum in rome. These will exist for a few more thousands years. Some will exist as an outline on the surface but will be recognizable by future archeologists. Large monuments such as the pyramids will exist for a few hundred thousand years more than other monuments. And because of the large amount of humans that existed at that moment our artifacts and fossils will exist for at most 2.3 million years. But that's it. What will happen after that? You might say that fossils exist for longer periods of time. But fossils are very unlikely and over the course of millions of years only a handful of good fossils are formed. And even if they did form we wouldn't be able to identify if they were of an advanced civilization who knew how to do agriculture.
Now finally the third phase, the industrialists. We have made remarkable progress after we became an industrialist society. Our impacts on earth will be seen for millions of years. Our excessive use of fossil fuel will show an increase in carbon dioxide and this will be a big hint to the future archeologists. Our overuse of plastic will be seen in the ocean floor as small molecules for a few more hundred million years. Our monuments will survive for a longer time than that of the agricultural period. But how will a civilization so advanced perish. There are three ways that are possible, one with an asteroid like the one that hit earth when the dinosaurs went extinct. The second option is a huge volcano explosion. The third one is a nuclear war which has a higher chance to happen now than ever. But even if any of these happen the traces will stay for a few hundred million years. And if we are wiped out by a nuclear war the uranium in the soil will stay for billions of years preserving the layer under it.
So in the end we could say that there might have been a civilization that advanced to the most primitive level of agriculture. There might have been thousands of different types of aliens who lived as hunter gatherers and we would never know. And we can say the same for the agricultural aliens. These aliens rise and fall and their monuments and artifacts slowly persih to biological and later geological processes. But we can say for sure that there were no industrialist aliens before us as we haven't found any traces till now. ‘Cause that's what humans do, what they haven't seen does not exist.
एकल बच्चाको जीवन सजिलो छैन । उनीहरूले हरेक कुरामा सम्झौता गर्नुपर्छ । यदि तपाईं एकल बच्चा हुनुहुन्छ भने तपाईंले आफ्नो आमाबाबुको सबै कुरा बुझ्नुपर्छ । किनभने तपाईं मात्र एक हुनुहुन्छ । म पनि एक्लो बच्चा हुँ । मेरो घरमा मैले धेरै कुरा सुन्नुपर्छ । मेरी आमा भन्नुहुन्छ "मेरी छोरी डाक्टर बन्नेछिन्"। मेरो बुवा भन्नुहुन्छ "मेरी छोरी म जस्तै सेना बन्नेछिन्"। तर मेरो आफ्नै सपना छ। आमाबाबु भनेको तपाईं हाम्रो अभिभावक हाे । मेरो सपनाको के छ ? यदि म पाइलट हुन चाहन्छु वा अरू केही । तर म उहाँहरूको एक्लो सन्तान हुँ । त्यसैले मैले उहाँहरूको बारेमा सोच्नै पर्छ ।
केही मानिसहरू भन्छन् एक्लो बच्चा हुनु रमाइलो हो । म यो पनि स्विकार्छु कि एकल बच्चा हुनु रमाइलो छ तर त्यहाँ केही चीजहरू पनि छन् जसले तपाईंंलाई वास्तवमै यस्ताे महसुस गराउँछ कि तपाईं एक्लो बच्चा होइन । यदि तपाईं एकल बच्चा हुनुहुन्छ भने तपाईंले सबैको बारेमा सोच्नुपर्छ। तपाईंको पहिलो प्राथमिकता तपाईंको आमाबुबा हुनुहुन्छ । किनकि आमाबुबाका अरू सन्तान छैनन् । मेरा आमाबाबुका लागि म मात्र भएकाले मैले पहिले उहाँहरूको बारेमा सोच्नुपर्छ । मैले मेरो पारिवारिक समस्या र सबै चीजहरूको बारेमा सोच्नुपर्छ। यदि मेरो भाइबहिनी हुन्थे भने म सजिलैसँग मेरो सपनाहरूमा ध्यान केन्द्रित गर्न पाउँथे । अब मैले चाहेर पनि मैले चाहेकाे गर्न र बन्न सक्दिन । यदि तपाईं एकल सन्तान हुनुहुन्छ भने तपाइँको आमाबाबुले तपाइँबाट सबै कुराको अपेक्षा गर्नुहुन्छ। आमाबुबाट धेरै माया पाउनुहुन्छ । यदि अरू सन्तान छन् भने आमाबुबाको माया बाँडिन्छ । यदि मेरा दाजुभाइ भएको भए मेरा आमाबुबा उनीहरूमा पनि भर पर्न सक्थे । मलाई जस्तै माया र गाली उनीहरूलाई पनि गर्न सक्थे । मलाई पनि उनीहरू साथी हुन्थे ।
धेरै अविवाहित छोराछोरीहरूले आफ्ना आमाबाबुको सपना पूरा गर्नका लागि आफ्नो सपनाको हत्या गरेका छन् । ती कसैका सही भए पनि सबैका लागि सही छन् जस्ताे मलाई लाग्दैन । हामीलाई सफल बनाउन हाम्रा अभिभावकहरूले धेरै त्याग पनि गरेका छन् । धेरै कुराहरूमा सम्झौता पनि गरेका छन् ।
मेरा अन्य दाजुभाइ वा दिदीबहिनी नभए पनि अब म खुसी नै हुनुपर्छ । उहाँहरूकाे खुसी नै मेराे खुसी हुन्छ । मेराे सफलतामा उहाँहरू गर्व गर्नुहुन्छ । त्यसैले म अब सफल छोरी बन्न कडा मेहनत गर्नेछु । मेरा आमाबुबा सबै थाेक हुन् र उहाँहरूको लागि म मेरो सपना त्याग्न सक्छु । म पक्कै पनि मेरो आमाबुवाको सपना साकार पार्न कडा मिहिनेत गर्नेछु ।
The atmosphere is delightful,
The sky is clear,
Neither too much wind nor too much sun
It won’t rain so there is no fear.
Birds are chirping in the trees,
Sweet voices are echoing in these ears,
I’m happy to see the flowers blooming in that garden,
Which makes my soul feel at ease.
Happiness abounds in this forest,
Where green leaves are fluttering in the wind,
The birds are flying in the sky,
Flapping their wings in a golden evening.
How fun and beautiful this spring is!
I wish this season stays forever,
It makes every creature feel alive every moment,
And it truly makes the moment heather.
फडिनकाे गाउँ सानो थियो । करिब १५ परिवारको बसोबास त्यो गाउँमा थियो । मिलन नाउँ गरेका मानिस गाउँका अगुवा जस्तै सबैले मान्ने गरेका थिए । उनी अरू गाउँलेहरूभन्दा पढेलेखेका शिक्षित थिए। उनी जनावरप्रेमी थिए । त्यसैले घरमा एउटा जनावर पालेका लिए ।
उनले घरमा एउटा भालु पालेका थिए । मिलनले त्यो भालुलाई १५ वर्षदेखि पाल्दै आएका थिए । दिनप्रतिदिन मिलनसँगै भालुको पनि उमेर बढ्दै थियो । भालु पनि मिलनसँगै बुढो हुँदै गइरहेको थियो । खान पनि छोड्दै गइरहेको थियो । मिलनले उसलाई एउटा बाँसको खोरमा राख्ने गर्दथ्यो । बुढो हुँदै जाँदा उसको अनुहार र शरीरको रङ पनि सबै उड्दै गइरहेको थियो । आँखा वरिपरि काला धर्का बसेका थिए । आफूले १५ वर्षदेखि पाल्दै आइरहेको जनावरको यस्तो अवस्था देखेर उसलाई दुःख लागिरहेको थियो।
एक दिन मिलनले भालुको रङलाई परिवर्तन गरिदिए । अब भालुको जिउ टाटेपाटे देखिन थाल्यो । यसो हेर्दा ऊ अब भालु हो को कि अरू कुनै जनावर छुट्याउन भ्रम पर्ने खालको थियो । गाउँलेहरू पनि अब मिलनले भालुको सट्टा अर्कै जनावर पाल्न थालेको अड्कल गरे । मिलनले उसलाई पाण्डे नामले बोलाउन थाले । गाउँका अरू मानिसले पाण्डे भालुलाई पान्डा भनेर बोलाउन थाले । यसको अस्तित्व नै हराउँदै एउटा भालु कसरी पान्डा भयो ? यो सोच्ने विषय हो ।
हामीलाई पान्डा जनावरको अस्तित्वबारे थाहा नै छ । तर व्यङ्ग्यात्मक रूपमा हेर्दा यसको अस्तित्व र र सिद्धान्तमा धेरै फरक छ । कुनै पनि कुराको वा विषयको अस्तित्व र सिद्धान्तमा धेरै फरक हुन सक्छ । त्यसैले मैले पनि फरक खालको कथा लेख्ने कोसिस गरेँ । प्रसिद्ध लेखक रुडयार्ड किप्लिङको एउटा “जस्ट सो स्टोरिज” नामक कथा सङ्ग्रहबाट प्रेरित भएर मैले पनि उनले जस्तै व्यङ्ग्यात्मक कथा लेखनको प्रयास यस कथामा गरेँ ।
