Travel, Life, Reset

  Sandwich Generation                                                                                                                         Shyamala Shiwakoti      I borrowed the term "sandwich generation" from my husband, who refers to this for people like us, aka first-generation immigrants, sandwiched between the older generation (who identify as Nepali) and the younger generation (who identify as US citizens). Of course, we are not the first people who have immigrated. People have been migrating throughout the earth since the beginning of human history. We all had the same purpose: to find a better life. It was in the news a few days ago that ten lakh (100,000) pe...

                            Learning Curve and Back to Basics       A few years ago, when one of my friends and I were talking, we talked about the time we thought we were omniscient and no one could compete with us. I told him I felt that way for the first few years after my undergraduate school. At that time, I thought I knew everything. After working for five years, I realized I had much to learn. Fast forward to today, I know that my knowledge is like a dust particle if knowledge were the size of the universe. When that epiphany happens, you ask; it happens over time. The older you get and as you go through life, the easier it gets to acknowledge that you do not know everything. But I grew up in this bubble where my biggest insecurity was telling people I did not know something. I felt people might look down upon me if I said I did not know something. Learning was and still is associated with b...