In this documentary, she compares her life (and the life in America) to the life of the people in the remote areas of Nepal. She's got nice points, and this documentary is thoroughly engaging once you start watching it. Many of the recent happenings in Nepal show signs of a bleak future, but it feels good that she finds something more valuable in our society which she feels is missing in her's. However, I would be inclined to say that what she thought she found here is gradually vanishing from here!
I also felt ashamed towards the end of the documentary when she talked of the meaning of the word Namaste - a word that I use a lot, but didn't know what it actually meant. The meaning of Namaste that I know now is "I bow to the common spiritual divinity in you; I want the place in you in which the entire university dwells; I want the place in you which is of love, of truth, of light and of peace. When you are in that place in you, and I am in that place in me, we are one!"
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Dear Davinci,
I think she was saying "I honor the place in you" not "I want the place in you."
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When I went back to Nepal two years ago after spending 5 years in the United States (high school, and a year of college), I was impressed by one gargantuan fact: People in Nepal know how to _be_, and people in the US know how to _do_. I think too much of both plagues each place (in general), and that a healthy combination of both is necessary.
Man,
I almost cried watching this video. This video makes us realize how poor we are, how naive we Nepalis are. I'm proud to say that even though we live in such abject poverty, we are cheerful and happy all the time unlike in the western societies.
But, i'm ashamed at the fact that even though we all know we come from such a background, but once we all come to the western world, we don't want to help our home and people get rid of the problems that we had been suffering sometime in the past.
Thanks for sharing this link Da Vinci!!!
this is indeed an amaazing video..and i totally agree with mahayoddha!
Thanks Prabhas. I still can't distinguish what she's saying but honor sounds more correct than what I wrote!
Dear Davinci,
Would appreciate if you deleted my first comment (the second one was a correction).
Also, have you considered a blog format on the front page where articles are shortened, and there is a "read more" link, rather than having entire articles there? I think people are less likely to lose interest if you happen to post on things that don't interest them ;)
@ Prabhas,
Sorry again for getting back to you so late. I've deleted the first comment.
Yes, I experimented with those things a lot, but I found out that it's a lot of pain trying to customize blogger to do those stuffs. Worked for a while, but there were many problems that came with it.
I have had enough with blogger and want to have a self-hosted wordpress blog. I'll do that sometime in February I think (after there's some more cash in my account), but once college starts I wouldn't be able to write anything significant (don't know if I am doing anything worthwhile now as well, but anyways..).
Thank you for the suggestion.
Thanks so much for this.
I know many of my Nepali friends sometimes think I am strange for loving Nepal so much.
Sarah has explained it in ways that I never could in my own words.
In Nepal I am a human being rather than a human doing like I am in America.
In Nepal I feel deeply loved.
Be patient with us strange Americans.
allow me to be a little cynic mates. i don’t think its OUR Vs.THEIR culture. i think humans are the same everywhere. i’m sure that neither Sarah & Jules nor other senti commentators here would be willing to adopt the "exotic" way of Nepali life. i remember a painter writing somewhere like this: Poverty looks beautiful only in paintings, but it hurts when you suffer.
:)
I would like to encourage Sarah Miller to enter her film Namaste in the Students' Short Film Competition which is part of the Santa Barbara Jewish Film Festival. Deadline: January 15, 2011. Please check the website at www.sbjff.org for rules and entry form
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