Shortcomings In Our Limbu Culture

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"I am always defeated in my life and this is what repeated again" . She expressed her temperament. ‘You are not defeated from your life and there is still a long way to go. I am sorry for making you feel that way’ I responded to her. I tried to assure her adding something more, ‘we have to make corrections of our mistakes and move forward by ourselves. Nothing in the world is perfect and all of us have shortcomings that we need to address and resolve them. We can 't find the perfection in anything in the world but we have to compromise with all the materials surrounding us’.

It had been a two weeks when one of my FB friends started to talk with me. I write a poem and songs and want to bring them to the audience posting them in Facebook.
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But I found some uniqueness and somethings different in her nature that attracted me and I inclined myself to talk with her. My enthusiasm and curiosity went up high volume when she became excited to praising me and my creativity. It 's our custom to joke saying ‘Lunga’ whoever are unfamiliar and unrelated by relation in our Limbu culture. We both were from the similar background and belong to the same case …show more content…
But could we be a friend ?" She asked. I accepted her proposal of being her friend and said ‘yes’. She wanted to share her experiences of her own life and as I agreed with that as well. She began; ‘ my life has been a full of illusion, I have met many men in this world and many of them purposed me to marry but I never liked them whoever they were regardless of their profession, money and appearance. But the men I like, are already belonged to someone else if not they run away from me. I don’t understand the reason why”. I felt so sorry about that and said, ‘we can 't have more then what our destiny has predetermined and can 't go beyond the time, you must have someone gorgeous on the way of your journey. Thanks for liking me and making your friends." That what I could tell her because there was no way of diving into the love as I have my own life and set up goal to

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