Home is the
root of everything-charity begins at home, happiness begins at home and list
shall go on.
It is an
aggregate of families that make up population of the nation and an aggregate of
at-home happiness that make up Gross National Happiness (GNH). In my
understanding, GNH could be called an Aggregate of At-Home Happiness (AAHH). In
the absence of happiness at root, GNH can never be realizable object. If GNH is
an end, building at-home happiness may be the only means.
Striking a
balance between material wellbeing and spiritual wellbeing is the goal of GNH.
That balance is indeed difficult equilibrium; when material wellbeing is
tailgated by almost everyone than spiritual wellbeing. With the kind of speed
at which we ride on wind of change and modernization, that equilibrium of ours
remains dim and distant, blur in our eyes. Should we shoot at the target, the
strong winds of change would veer it off. GNH could remain a concept for times
to come and thereafter if the means of at-home happiness is not sought.
Happiness of every home is prerequisite for GNH. By this token, patchy
development can never lead to happiness. Rather, it serves means of unhappiness
for others left unattended. By this same token, the development of country must
be equitable.
Social
problems surrounding around urban areas are the price that nation pays for
centralized and patchy development. Had the developmental activities been taken
up at equanimity, the urban woes that we face today can never stumble our way.
Today, we
see many villagers-literate and illiterate, educated and uneducated, qualified
and unqualified migrating to urban areas with a bundle of hopes to find a
better living and contribute to their families at home. These hopes in them
deserves due respect but before they could walk on their hopes, the precious
human lives are squandered away when meted out with lives of strays in urban
areas. Keep aside fulfilling the good hopes of helping families, they end up
grounding into urban pleasures of fights, drugs, lootings, vandalisms,
burglaries, and so on. These are ways they dashed their hopes and more
importantly the colossal hopes placed upon by parents. The huge loads of
investments made in them through sweats and blisters by parents are
disposed-off in a matter of seconds. We
might be able to bring these dashing hopeful youngsters back home, at their
villages only if they’ve the platform to nurture their hopes and not giving it
a premature death. The way is only through provision of equitable development.
The development that is evenly spread which would blockade the village brain
drain. This gives them window of opportunity to look through for building
happiness at home and keep them distant from getting into urban world inflicted
with social woes.
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| Thimphu:Hub of Bhutanese Hopes |
Thimphu is
the only place where youths see as better place to build on their hopes of
searching better lives until meted out with dark side of it. They get entangled
into net of urban problems after failing to nurture their budding hopes and
dreams. This is sad on the part of development-Thimphu simply couldn’t cater to
whole of nation’s search for happiness. So, why not give them the way to grow
their hopes at home? Let them start their happiness at home. This is only
possible with an equitable development, the development that places equal
opportunities.
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| Khomshar: Beautiful devoid of equal development though |
There are a
whole lot of areas in eastern Districts starving for development. They cannot
stand at a development height equaling with their counter parts of western and
central Districts. There is an urgent
call for bringing up laid-back Districts like Zhemgang. Should one rate on the
scale of basic amenities, the Dzongkhag doesn’t have a Transportation Bus for
general public. The one plying once,
dropped on failure to get adequate passengers. The roads are not pliable most
of the times. The bridges are taken away by the wrecked monsoon infesting
worries to parents who send their children trudging those muddy meandering roads
to schools.
Dakphel-Buli
highway is long due for blacktopping. The road conditions have stuck to what it
was a decade ago. This simply shows being neglected. It is a laid-back case,
the sidelined one.
Here I have
mentioned of Zhemgang, the land I am bred and brought up. Many eastern
Districts share the same stories. This is where we cannot start happiness at
home. I am working at Thimphu after studying thirteen years at Zhemgang and
finally graduating from Gaeddu. This is not because I like Thimphu. It is simply
because I don’t see Thimphu in Zhemgang. It is well spaced from development.
Building hopes at home is hardly near in vicinity. So, is the case of start-kicking
the happiness at home, otherwise many would love to be around their homeland.
Everyone
wants to start happiness at home, so give the way for it. Equitable
development, we usher you with a golden welcome mat, for this is the only way
we can sow and nurture hopes on our own land.
PS: Just
written to add to my blogging posts, randomly and disorganized. The facts might
have been blown out. The case could be otherwise and not as reflected herein.
