Everyone grows up having dreams and wishes. Some of the dreams for girls are same like finding a prince who would love her so much, give her all the happiness and live happily ever after. I don’t exactly remember if I had that dream while growing or had I got it after I became a grown up. But anyway, that dream is in shadow now. I grew up having a dream to be a doctor, a paediatrician. I used to have too much of tonsillitis. I just can remember an incident of that little age, maybe I was3/4/5 years old. My brother could eat what he wanted but my parents would not allow me to eat even the chocolates because it would worsen the tonsillitis and even if I used to steal, I could not swallow. The throat pain, fever, chest pain and an empty stomach, horrible days were they. Once I even had a pebble-like cough with the blood coming from my mouth. I really had horrible tonsillitis. It has been just a few years, I no more have this horrible tonsillitis but yes, is still prevalent. I wanted to be a healthy child and knowing how it much hurts, I wanted to be a paediatrician to help other kids. However, this dream worth a fortune and my parents could not afford. Goodbye dream!!
I was 16 years and a few months when I had completed my higher secondary school. Knowing that I cannot turn my dream into reality at that time made me really angry, confused and lowly. I had no idea what to study and what to do forth and there was nobody to guide me. Thanks to one of my best school friends, it was her idea to join environment science for bachelors but gave me the choice to choose the combination though. ECZ it was. hahaha “Thank you Shova dear. I know you are aware of this I always give my credits to you for that guidance and support of yours during that phase. <3<3” Life is not bedding full of roses and even the roses have thorns, at least Nepali roses have them. Hahaha. There are ups and downs for sure. Some high moment and some low. This is life. :)
I had never been to Pokhara or shall I say I had not even been to Bhaktapur Durbar Square until a few years back though I was born and raised in Kathmandu. I was just like a frog in a well. It was during late 2012, I visited Pokhara to meet a friend whom I had met at the UK but later she apologized that she could not meet me because of her busy schedule and I and my friend, who had come along, had a tour of Pokhara. I literally liked Pokhara then. It was after 2012 that I have become a so much travel person and started to trek and hike. I have completed almost every route of the ACAP and encountering Pokhara time and again had made me wish to live in Pokhara even more. I never knew my wish or a dream to live in Pokhara will come true one day. I am currently living in Pokhara and finally, I have my temporary address to fill in too. Hahahahaha this was also one of the dreams. I had a dream to be an established and respected woman and I am kind of living that dream too.
Mirroring the past and the present, the phases I had been to and am I in, give some satisfaction that hard work and the difficulties I had faced is now harvesting something that I can be delighted to. Well, this is not just my case. I know everyone had difficulties, are facing the challenges to get to their dream and have their wishes fulfilled. But honestly, you can also feel the same satisfaction and happiness in sooner future with your hard work and dedication. And some of you might have already. Indeed it is so difficult to pass that phase but when it fruits, it boosts you even more for further achievements. Life does not end here so we have to keep dreaming, work on it and pursue the dream. I am just a leaper to live in the dream. I still have a long way ahead of me on this journey. Never know if it will be a highway or the connecting bumpy routes. Living in a dream might have been fantasy stories like Cinderella at some point of life but they say even a dog has its day, so work on, we are humans. Therefore, it shall, for sure, happen and we shall turn our dreams into reality. Positive thoughts for when I/We are low. :)
