Human beings are said to be social, or so we were taught in school. We live in communities and enjoy life together. Therefore, we go to extremes to keep the people we love with us. We do things which we normally wouldn't do just so we can have our loved ones around and in our lives. Their happiness marks the degree of happiness in our lives.
It was the same with Ashok Bhattarai's parents. They sent him to the States to fulfil a dream which was shattered on 28 September. Along with studying, he was working hard to help pay the loan his parents had taken to send him to the States. But he was shot by an 17-year-old who too, in a way, did so for his own personal happiness even though his actions were unforgivable. Abha writes about this incident in her column Broadside. This makes me wonder about the extent we go to find happiness.
Some find joy in material goods and their pleasures are as far as the next shopping mall and some might have to pay a higher price to find a small amount of happiness. And for the ones like Suresh Ghimire it comes in helping put a roof over little orphans. Read about Suresh and his small team at the Light for New Nepal Children Home in our article Light in their eyes.
Subjective as it may be, each individual is constantly in search of happiness. As a result, we move from one point to the other with the hope that the next step will bring us closer to what we want. Taking the next step towards happiness is Sunaina Shah, our marketing and sales director (not to say that she wasn't happy here). The WAVE team will dearly miss her. We wish her the best and sincerely hope that she finds the happiness she is looking for.
Cheers to our personal pursuits of happiness and may we all find our moment in the sun.
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