“Everybody
has a tale to share and this is my own story which kept on lingering in my
mind”.
It was back in the year 1994, the year when I
was born as a handsome boy to my lucky parents, the whole country was in grief
as our only pristine paradise the Punakha Dzong was flooded by the sinful Pho
Chu River. It was the main resident of our great Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyal, who
unified Bhutan ever since his first visit to our country in the 17th century.
Because of the blessings of great Lama and protective guardian deities and also
because of the blending prayers of the Bhutanese people, the important relics
and monuments were secured and can be seen even today in the Punakha Dzong.
My father was a
forest guard then, and my mother was just a simple house wife. For our family
his job was the only source of income and my mother weaves a bit to add on
fathers earning. Most of the time she weaves for me and for my five siblings.
We were six in total and we still are-five boys and a girl. I am neither eldest
nor youngest I lie somewhere in the middle.
Unlike my other
friends who were deprived of educational opportunity and other facilities, my
parents sweated all their sweats and tackled incalculable hardship in grooming me
into finer human beings. My families and
relatives were always there in the case of pushing me to achieve my wishes and
desires. To me they are only sun in the darkness and hope in my life. They
taught me what I have not learned and steered through the blameless path.
During my schooling period I am an average student with an imbibed qualities of hard work and good sense of humor. I used to enthusiastically participate in all sorts of activities and actively volunteer in what is not imposed on me. Neither I was in the business of substance abuse nor did I messed into illicit relationship. It doesn’t mean that I was trying to make myself superior when I use those praising words, but I can remember that I have never wasted my teacher’s times in solving my disciplinary problems in the principal’s office. Great hopes and high expectations was what my families yearned from me then. I don’t even remember failing in exams and other academic results unless I was ruthlessly shaken by my class twelve’s BCSE examinations result.
I can still remember
the air of upset when the result was being declared. My whole dreams and wishes
of becoming something superior to what I am right now is all crushed and dumped
in the yard of hopelessness. I have burned the hopes and wishes of so many
people who placed their enormous trust and faith on me. I even lost my identity
of hard worker and bright student. Discomfort
kind of feeling started rooting within myself when people asked about my result.
I started feeling stressed and felt like smearing bulls shit on those mouth,
who were parroting about my result. I hated all the peoples and friends who drew
incorrect conclusion about the student who couldn’t rise up with the colorful
results. No food satisfied my hunger, no water quench my thirst and no nights
were peaceful for rest. Mixed feelings were the only virus that kept on
corrupting my peaceful thoughts.
Finally she came up with all the powers of superman and lifted me to the height that no other super hero have ever done to impress their girlfriend. Her words of motivation enormously inspired me by defeating all the words of Robin Sharma and Shiv Kiera. Those are the only word from my mother that refilled all my strength and determination to move forward to see the real world. I started feeling stronger and started believing in myself.
And few days later I was stunned to receive a call from Paro College of Education which became my destination. It was beautifully nested near the Paa chu surrounded by a promising nature and soul healing friends. It really was the power house of learning with fun and laughter. The enjoyment and laughter of the place further intensified when I finally found love of my life. And a smile of joy lasted on my face when I finally learned that failure is not an option when I have worked far too hard to reach where I am right now.
