When we have enthusiasm and energy, we lack money. I’m not talking about those who have rich parents, but I’m talking about the majority who come from middle class families in Nepal. The age group between 16 and 22 is a critical group of youths who have a capacity to do a lot but all they lack is economic help and guidance. Why do our youths do not earn money of their own?
Nepalese people have a lot of expectations from their children. Nepalese parents believe that, no matter how hard their youth days were, their elderly days shall be golden if their children receive good education and lifestyle. Hence, Nepalese parents restrict good life for themselves and provide best to their children.
The scenario of my country is unique. People here require a plenty of money to feed plenty of unnecessary people just to complete their marriage function. People need loans to celebrate different festivals where they can eat fancy and wear fancy. Who are they doing this for? Why do Nepalese fake something that they are not?
Nepalese people have a joint family in majority. The family of six to eight is fed by a single person’s income. Some of the women are learned and empowered but still when it comes to working and earning they prefer staying home. A son or daughter of age 20 is roaming around, calls him/her “student” and spends father’s income. Why are European countries forward? Every members in their family earns, may be through skills or through own business. We are embarrassed of doing jobs of waiter and carpenter, we are embarrassed of earning little money per month but we are not embarrassed of feeding ourselves on a single person’s income throughout life.
Everything requires money. Why not start from a small work like part time work and save money for dream business? If we reach to the state where we are rich and earned a lot of respect in the society, who shall be pointing to our rough past? Nobody shall. If we have a rough present, we can work on it and brighten our future. But, if we just complain about having a broken time, we shall not rise. The thing we need to realize is, we should live for ourselves and not for others. So, if money is the problem, it is not a problem at all. We need to stop pleasing others and focus on building ourselves.
Nepalese people are rich in terms of pride and bravery, but we need to be economically rich too. For that, we need to accept our failures and what is dragging us behind. If we can do any jobs in foreign countries, then why not in our own country? Why to be ashamed of earning money? We need to broaden our minds and follow our dreams. May be the first few years shall be hard, but the remaining shall be wonderful.
*Aleena Rayamajhi (1/22/2018)
