“I’ve
been around, you know?”, that’s what Al Pacino says in that epic climax of one
the best movies ever made, ‘Scent of a Woman’… that movie is awesome! High
repeat value!! A great/must watch!!! I wish to say that sometime in the future!
I have always wished to visit places afar, meet people, enjoy the splendor of nature,
understand different cultures, and enjoy life that way… Most of the people
across the developing world and beyond dream to travel to the US and make it
big… and as I am here myself, it provides me with a great opportunity to know and
understand a lot of them... and being a student is an added benefit.
I
don’t think I am good in too many things, but I would prefer geography more or
less to be my home-ground, kind of… it has been my favourite pastime. It has
aided me a lot to create a kind of image/stereotype of most of the people
around the globe… and over generalization is like over confidence, doesn’t help
in the real world that much. But that knowledge has been useful to break the
ice, start the conversation and get it going on… and some of them wonder how I
knew about them that much… Damn! It’s numismatist inside me that’s all to
blame. Not bragging but I am a proud owner of coins from more than 80 countries
and territories around the world and counting… that’s more than 33% right?
So
far I have met people from every continent sans Australia and Oceania and tell
you the truth they have been far different from anything I have read… and I
believe that is what the real world beyond the pages of newspaper is… they only
cover news that is sellable, and a lot of people like these never make it to
that category… and that inspires me to retire early and hit the road to
discover the world that there is beyond the horizon…
Given
the image portrayed by 43rd President Bush, the Americans I’ve met
seems to be from a world apart, I wonder if I am in the same America!… warm
hearted, helpful... but that maybe the specialty of the Old West that is still
alive here in Wyoming… Swiss, French, Greenlander, Zimbabwean, Ecuadorian,
Mexican, Argentinean, Saudi, British… you name it and it feels like they are as
good as it comes… maybe I am lucky in that case… I have always been proud of
being a Nepali, always will be... but I won’t prefer to call myself one until
and unless I have to… the Nepalese lot out here aren’t the one that you would
like to relate or associate yourself with, as far as most of the ones that I
know… I don’t know if I do fit in that category as well or not but truly speaking,
they are mean and selfish… they would be a different being even if they are
able to learn 10% from the people around… I have been lucky to have grown up in
a nice surrounding, wonderful family and friends… maybe they were not that
lucky enough…
Saudis
are cool, and there are whole bunch of them out here… heard their association
here have more than 250 active members… and some of them act as if they are ‘cold
proof’, which I wrote about some time ago… most of the Chinese, who are in
majority among international students, have damn big heads, literally, the
size!... no offences but Vietnamese girls are the least pleasant to look at,
must be a different case in Hanoi though, I believe… that Kenyan guy sports his
phone with broken display as if it is the most coolest thing on the face of
earth... and the way he carries that off, looks true… the Greenlander out here
felt it was colder here than it was in Nuuk… and that Saudi guy didn’t? I can’t
get to read that in any book, do I? So, it’s high time I earn some money so I
can trot the globe after I finally decide to retire… the world is a damn big
place, too many things to see… few to miss… and I don’t wish to miss any!
Post
script: If someone says they represent two countries, ask them if they were
born in the Soviet Union… that was the case about this girl I met who was born
in Tashkent (now Uzbekistan) but was a Russian citizen… with Russia’s
population on a negative trend they allow the people born in former Soviet
republics to acquire their citizenship which the former republics don’t… or you
may be talking to Mohammed, the guy who is a British citizen but his father is
a Saudi, mother Canadian and lived last 8 years in Lebanon!
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