Across the Oceans
“Don’t ever forget where you came from; otherwise, you’ll never remember where you’re going.”
Leaving my thirteen years behind, I flew away from Nepal in 2013 in a hope that I’ll prove myself in the future fulfilling the dreams that I dreamed as a child. Flying away felt like leaving a piece of myself in the place where I spent my whole childhood for the place where I was going to spend my adolescence and my adulthood.
I came from a place where the lack of electricity, water sources, transportation, employment, and health service still exist. Being born in a place where my dad spent his childhood and adulthood struggling to get a proper meal for a day makes me think how lucky I was to get to come to the place where it lacks nothing. I’m a daughter of someone whose mom died giving birth to her daughter and someone who couldn’t save his younger sister due to lack of proper health care. I am also a daughter of someone who had to be in labor for more than 24 hours for delivery due to the lack of hospital and a doctor. I’ve got the parents who are still struggling just for our sake because they don’t want us to suffer in life just like they did. Knowing such awful experiences of my parents makes me want to do something to make a change in their life as well as in my …show more content…
You are connected to the place no matter what it lacks.The day when I was old enough to know the place and perceive the story behind my parents was the day I decided to make a change. I used to be involved in community services and used to volunteer to help the people in needs. There are still so many people in my community who lack a meal per day. There are so many senior citizens who don’t have a home to live in because the community lacks an old age home and their children refuse to take them. I get the real happiness when I get to help people. I’m still volunteering in a hospital and a library apart from the services I do in
“Don’t ever forget where you came from; otherwise, you’ll never remember where you’re going.”
Leaving my thirteen years behind, I flew away from Nepal in 2013 in a hope that I’ll prove myself in the future fulfilling the dreams that I dreamed as a child. Flying away felt like leaving a piece of myself in the place where I spent my whole childhood for the place where I was going to spend my adolescence and my adulthood.
I came from a place where the lack of electricity, water sources, transportation, employment, and health service still exist. Being born in a place where my dad spent his childhood and adulthood struggling to get a proper meal for a day makes me think how lucky I was to get to come to the place where it lacks nothing. I’m a daughter of someone whose mom died giving birth to her daughter and someone who couldn’t save his younger sister due to lack of proper health care. I am also a daughter of someone who had to be in labor for more than 24 hours for delivery due to the lack of hospital and a doctor. I’ve got the parents who are still struggling just for our sake because they don’t want us to suffer in life just like they did. Knowing such awful experiences of my parents makes me want to do something to make a change in their life as well as in my …show more content…
You are connected to the place no matter what it lacks.The day when I was old enough to know the place and perceive the story behind my parents was the day I decided to make a change. I used to be involved in community services and used to volunteer to help the people in needs. There are still so many people in my community who lack a meal per day. There are so many senior citizens who don’t have a home to live in because the community lacks an old age home and their children refuse to take them. I get the real happiness when I get to help people. I’m still volunteering in a hospital and a library apart from the services I do in