Lets say, some of us make it big ! We create enough wealth to grab a “bright” future for our family. Our relatives are envious because, we have a nice house in Kathmandu, a guard, cook, helper and enough money in the bank after many hard years of work.
Lets say, weeach have a beautiful small family. with our partner and our cute children.
Every day for the last 20 years, you drive through myriads of problems in Kathmandu. We look around. get angry, become extremely frustrated at the way things are descending. Yet, in the end, we just say, यस्तै हो। “Yestai ho.” We admit we alone cannot change all this. Instead, we set to do where we can change, which is to help our own family. So we invest all our time, energy, resources onto our family.
As we do this, the Bagmati river which flows through Kathmandu, pretty much and remains the same, extremely toxic. We convince ourselves, repairing her is beyond our job ( it must be the government’s job or some NGO’s job or some environmental person to FIX THAT! )
Coming back to our family; we raise our children in the best possible manner. Put