One of the advises I give to my friends and colleagues is this: Be yourself - NOT someone else. It is the easiest thing to do - it comes to you naturally, without the need for pretenses - to be yourself. It is the hardest thing to do - to be someone who you are not. The day you have a need to be someone else who you are not - it is clear that you have lost your self-respect.
I am hugely encouraged to see that we Bhutanese have no such problems - we are naturally ourselves - for proof, look at the following:
With the above, the nation’s premier law-making body has endorsed “pilgrimage to Nepal and Tibet” as an activity worthy of state-sponsorship. Clearly they believe that annual cleansing of the civil service’s morality is a state responsibility.
Elsewhere in their earlier deliberations, they have chosen to categorize the civil service as “public servants” - leaving us to wonder what the rest of the country’s population would be termed as - uncivil servants doomed for eternal ill-treatment deserving of step-motherly treatment?
The Bhutanese mentality has to change - until we do, we will continue to languish in poverty and inefficiency. But my personal opinion is that this generation is beyond redemption. It is for this reason that more than a year back, I pleaded with His Majesty to consider taking a different approach at governance. Please read the following:
Time may be running out for us - the Ngar of the present generation is at the lowest ebb, perhaps even none-existent. We do not seem to be able to grasp the true calamitous nature of the outflow of human capital from out of the country - as all calamities go, our troubles will come from the most unexpected quarters … and we will find that we have not the wherewithal to cope with it.
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