My Dear MOM and DAD

I love you my dear mom and dad. You gave me life and you have helped me so much to grow up and taught me how to live in this world. You gave and gave and still you give me so much that are priceless in this world.

You two care less about yourself and you fed me and cleaned my faces, wiped my noses. You gave me toys and taught me how to play and how to go about in my life. You gave me golden words and taught me what to say, how to behave and what a person I should become.

You gave me clothes to keep me warm and did your best to keep me from harm and dark world. Your love and affection is the greatest wealth that I ever had in my life.

I was showed my path and gave me the direction towards which I have to proceed. I was lifted up and when I feel down gave me the moral support to become successful.

The things that I need to cope up, I got from you, the faith and love. You gave me the best years of your life through pain or sickness and even in strife. Even during good times and bad times you gave me everything.

My dear mom and dad I have learned from you so much to have a hold and how to touch, to laugh, to cry and to stand as a proud man in the crowd.

I remember, you saying that I shouldn't be selfish and I have to share, how to love and how to care for other. The respecting of elderly and showing pity on younger one are good quality that you have put in me.

Now to turn the page, you taught me how to age, how to grow old gracefully, how to look back gratefully, how to hold you in my heart like you have held me from the start. Now it’s my turn to give to you but all I have has come from you and what I have I will give to you freely just as you gave to me.

When you gave me everything, you just gave me expecting nothing in return but to love and live the way you used to live.  I salute you and I will never ever let two of you down.

I love you my dear mom and dad and I miss you so much.

MY BELOVED AUNT

When I came to Thimphu after my graduation, I was happy to have a nice stay with my beloved aunt. The most memorable moment in my life was, when she called me my dear son.

My aunt was the greatest person in this world and she was the one of a kind and one in a million people.

If I compare, she has one of the biggest heart with the most caring touch and she shares her heart with most of the people and many of us loves her the way she was. Inside her soul was full of love and compassion with pure love and yet I can say she’s worth way more than glittering gold.

To me she is, she was and she will be always the most beautiful person to walk the earth and remember her in every steps of my life. She was one of the smartest women that I value in my life and she truly shows to the world her way of good deeds. Indeed I would be sure to say that she was incomparable to anyone and no one even can come close to her the way she used to be.

I appreciate all the advice she has given to me and for that I take it in with great pleasure and immense gratitude. Those memories will be cherished in my life and for they are priceless I will never let it fall.

For all she has done to me, I will be very much thankful to her and will be grateful to her forever. Even if I am not worthy, in my heart, my love for her will grow as the days passes by.

On a high pedestal is where I hold her, and for me I admire her so much more than she knows and will keep on admiring her and her deeds to me.

For she was my part of life, that is the greatest gift of all in my life. Her presence to me was like a god’s blessing to me. When I prudently looked inside her, I see that strong, wise woman and I hope to become like her one day.

She was always a giving, helpful, loving, caring and kind to everyone. If I define her in one word, she is angel befallen on earth. She was not only my favorite aunt but she was my role model too and one day I like to become like her and I would wish to be like her.

Thank you my dear aunt for believing in me and supporting me always.

May my beloved aunt rest in peace and may her reach to  heavenly abode very soon. I will miss you my dear aunt. Love you and will love you always and will never forget your good deeds. I will miss you.....

With Love Sonam Jartsa

What’s Next Now?

This time last year, when the Royal Civil Service Examination (RCSC) result was declared, my result was just fitting. Out of 336 students who had appeared in the Post Graduate Diploma in Public Administration category, only 36 were enrolled in Royal Institute of Management (RIM) as always. I was ranked in top 70’s and was not able to get admission in RIM. When the time for assortment in Civil Service was piloted I was selected to track my Post Graduate Diploma in Education and off to my knowledge I didn’t go for that one. The then what RCSC called the eligibility certificate with one year validity was given to those graduates who had passed RCSC exam. 

Then the time for race in job market was in full swing. The announcements in various Ministries’, departments, private sectors and so on and so forth were announced and those unfiltered one have to contest and try to get catch with one of the profession. The earlier scheme of waiting list after exam was no more in plan and even after passing exam the getting of job become more chaotic. If one wills to join there were some excuses in his/her mind whether to join or not to join. Slowly but surely, the time passes nippily without one’s notice and the validity of eligibility certificates comes to the end of life.

Similar is the case for every batch of graduates and if you are not strong-minded then the problem will be following us in every state of affairs. This year, when the RCSC result was declared, some were happy and some were not. Among them was one of my friends and now I know what kind of pressure is building in his mind. All I have told him was, just to stress-free and everything will be fine. I don’t mean to be sure, but that is the way how to soothe the shattered one. The fact is now, he will have harsh journey until his destiny. If luck favor’s him, he will have good job very soon, otherwise he have to go for another course of action.

That’s just one example; similar to him there are lots of graduates who will now have to fight against the race of time. Even after 3 years of graduation, there are still some who are still in hunt for good job and I am also one amongst them. When time to look for good job, they ask us our experience and without job how will we have experience. If we have experience then they ask us for our qualification. Indeed, the job arcade in Bhutan is totally complex and full of miss match in profession.

The graduates hereafter will have rough time looking for work. Every year the numbers of graduates are increasing but with no increase in job openings. At this time all we have to do is we have to really ponder from our kidney and make our living even if the job is not suitable for us. Not all jobs are bad, if you will and smudge your fortitude, where ever we work, we get gratification and make us joyful at the end of the day.  Getting a chance is quite thought-provoking, but when you get any, go for it and that will make variance in your career.