Something -- ten-year (1997) high school reunion -- that I should remember! I should have memories of it! After all, I had been heavily involved in its organization! But, strangely enough, I don't, while I do our one-year (1988) reunion, for all the right and two wrong reasons!
I have argued over and over again that it's not that we in Nepal can't do what we should do to develop, to make progress, but that we WON'T do them. We do them only when, for whatever reason, we feel that we absolutely HAVE to, for example.
Here's an example of that.
I am most likely swimming against the current here with how I am dealing with a social ill in Nepal but...here it is!
I have come across Nepali men, in person, on social media and elsewhere, who, when discussing gender issues, display a very very remarkable lack of knowledge and understanding of the issues faced by our girls and women. In the process, they display their conceit, their complete ignorance of the patriarchal society we live in and how that benefits and privileges us, men.
This is just one example of that.
How people are in some respects -- and also how power dynamics -- work don't change with time. Should you suffer in some way because of that, hardly any of it is about you AND as such you can't do anything about it really. And that's ok!