Travel, Life, Reset

 Things I have learned to cherish Since I was a kid, I have heard the phrase, " Man is a social animal." All of us grew up listening to this phrase. However, only recently I understood the true meaning of that phrase. I grew up in a very social family, mainly because of my mother. She was and is still socially active. In Nepal, at least four people would stop by our house to say hi and tell us how everything was going daily, which was a norm. When I was growing up, I used to think of it as nuance, mainly because I had to greet them and sometimes make tea for them. As a kid, you just wanted to watch TV and hang with your friends, and this socialization in my house was interfering with that aspect of my life.  As we grow up, we have a list of things we are supposed to accomplish: education, financial security, social status, etc. After you achieve all of those to some extent, you feel a sense of accomplishment. And the illusion stays for quite some time due to mimetics. In addi...

 We the Humans Recently, one of my friends suggested watching a TED talk by Yuval Noah Harari, where he talks about why human beings became superior beings to other living animals on the planet. He explains that The significant reason is that we can follow subjective reality like money, politics, rules, and regulations, which other living beings cannot follow. For instance, you can never train a chimpanzee to trade a banana for a piece of paper, which humans name as money, and we decide collectively to use that to buy things we need. So, trading bananas for a piece of paper is subjective reality versus objective reality, where we would trade bananas for bananas or any other fruit. Listening to the talk was an eye-opening and intriguing perspective for me. Last evening (my husband and I went shopping), and it just dawned upon me that it is not only money, politics, and otherworldly things that we have created subjective reality for. It is much deeper than that. We have done this for...

  I was scrolling through events for this month. One is Christmas, and another I am excited about this year is Tamu Losahr. This year, we are celebrating Tamu Loshar at the end of December. I have been attending this event in Denver for the past two years. So, many people know that I am half Tamu, aka my mother is from the Gurung community in Nepal. And I had never celebrated Loshar in Nepal. As a kid, I thought we were not exposed to my mother's side of the family, mainly because it was far away from Kathmandu, where we grew up. Now, in retrospect, I think it was because we grew up in a patriarchal society where your mother's side of the family is not as important as your father's side of the family. That particular thought gets ingrained into our brains since we are kids, and then sadly, as we grow up, we tend to believe it is true.  I attended my higher studies in Dharan, and my mom's family lives in Japan. They are originally from Gorkha in Nepal. So, while studyin...