A Question of Character, a question of Pride

Too many of us are going abroad. It’s understandable that people without much of a chance to earn a decent living in the country due to various factors should try out their luck in foreign lands. It is, however, not understandable why those with good education, substantial family resources, and some personal ability should make foreign shores their destination. Things have reached such a point that everybody, but everybody, seems to be doing all they can to get a Green Card in the States, or Permanent Residency status in places like Australia and elsewhere.

Recent revelations show that government employees in their thousands are already well on their way to abandoning their motherland; they have already acquired their Green Cards or their PR status. In real term, they have, of course, become if not totally unpatriotic, then at the very least, much less so. How weak do we seem to be in character; how poor in pride. It is not only the average Nepali; even the fairly well-reimbursed civil servants have no qualms at all about abandoning their homeland. How tragic is the state of being today. How bitter is the truth that Nepal has, every day, less and less number of patriots. How sad that we all have forgotten the lesson we learnt as children in school: that love for the motherland comes above all else; that

There is something deeply wrong with the average Nepali psyche today. Scratch the surface, and you will find plenty of wealthy and successful businessmen, not to speak of shifty politicians and well qualified professionals, who have a Green Card or a PR status stashed away like an insurance policy. What is this? Do even such people have no hopes for their own country? What is this? Do they have no misgivings at all about living up to their responsibilities as leaders of society?  And then there are those who have won high acclaim in this country; those talented artists who have been rewarded with all the honor and awards that this country has to give. Unfortunately, all the awards, all the recognition, what purpose have they served these people? They have served just to help them acquire Green Cards and PR statuses. How tragic is the situation when a country’s highest awards are deemed useful only for this purpose.

Yes, this country is poor; yes it is misgoverned; yes, corruption is all-prevailing; yes, there are more wrongs than there are rights. No doubt, Nepal has a long way to go for its citizens to be assured adequate security, good employment opportunities, and a decent standard of living, but is that reason enough for everybody to be so utterly hopeless that we act so beaten? So defeated? This might all sound idealistic to the extreme, but what can we deduce from the fact that even well-to-do Nepalis of all sections of society are all too ready to sell their very souls for a few dollars more? At the most, one can understand poorer/weaker citizens taking resort to desperate measures and going wherever they can to earn a few dinars more, but what to say about fairly-paid civil servants, successful businessmen, and well- awarded artists? How can they surrender their character and pride so easily? 
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