All about following ones dreams to make life meaningful. In my case, the dream was to get advanced degree in the US and then return to Nepal to help the next generation of children from low socioeconomic backgrounds, which is what I have done.
Why did my employer -- Qatar Academy -- and its administrators appear to have dropped me like a hot brick on May 1 when I was holed up at the police station? Would they have done anything differently had I been a European or North American or from another native English-speaking region of the world?
This really isn't anything to do with you or is it about you...really! This has to do with and is about me in it's entirety. However, don't worry, I am not "breaking up" with you!
The embedded video is that of the presentation I gave at Thames International College in Kathmandu. I talked about dreams, humanity, compassion, international understanding, peace and making life meaningful to a small auditorium full of students doing their undergraduate studies in Social Work.
When you have suffered gravely, you view and live life a certain way.
Far from making others suffer or wishing suffering on others, for instance, you don't even wish suffering on those you hold responsible for your own suffering. Knowing what it was like, you want to do everything you can to alleviate the sufferings of others instead.
What makes for a successful life is one lived following ones dreams, one lived in ones own terms, instead of one lived following others.
The power and privilege of education, the power of compassion & humanity, and how what I am doing now is in line with the UWC mission and values of international understanding and world peace.
How and why I achieved academic, personal and professional success in spite of the circumstances and context of my birth, lessons I have learned, why I do what I do back in Nepal, and what I hope students like them do with, and in, their lives.
How and why I achieved academic, personal and professional success in spite of the circumstances and context of my birth, lessons I have learned, why I do what I do back in Nepal, and what I hope students like them do with, and in, their lives.
I was a guest at Little Angels School where I spoke to the A-levels students. I did my best to inspire them to follow their dreams by talking to them about my own life.