Looking at what’s happening in Ukraine, I am immeasurably and emotionally grateful to our wise and visionary Kings for the beautiful, peaceful and glorious country that we are bestowed with to live in and call our own. What a job it must be to carve and maintain a nation and the delicate project of sovereignty that sits at its very core!
Even as I’m caught up in the choking grips of the pandemic and staring helplessly at heart-rending images from Ukraine, I’m thinking of the idea of a Nation, of Nationhood, Nation-belonging and Nation-building.
I am glad I seriously reconsidered my overseas plans after the Royal Address in April 2020 when the pandemic struck. I’m glad I have started a venture that gives me the opportunity to repay in some measly measure this unpayable debt that I owe to our peerless Kings and our most precious motherland.
Did someone say, As I Am, So Is My Nation? I am thinking. Thinking. Thinking. Working.
STAY SAFE and LOVE OUR COUNTRY peeps.
PALDEN DRUKPA GYALO!!
P.S: Thank you Ata Neten Dorji @netendorjee2011 of BBS for sending me this picture. This was some 22 years back in Sherubtse College when I submitted a Nation and Nationhood question to His Majesty the Great Fourth. Memories of what I was and hoped to be back then come flooding back. I am so glad I am still so whole.
- Tshering Gyeltshen(Facebookpage post)
