My
Parental history had culture of owning many cattle and oxen according to
elders. My childhood days too was with mother looking after cattle at jungle
hut until I enrolled to school. My mom has given birth of four, out of which two
survived and two were not. That is why we always face labor shortage and
normally burdened with many works. So I was finally enrolled to school by my
father who inspired me always and longing to learn from day one. My father
unfortunately passed away when I was class II keeping many words ( Khachem) to uncle and neighboring elders
who surrounded him during last minutes i.e.
'' Let my son continue his education and
guide him to become better human being with values and you should take care of
my son and enroll him learning until he succeed,'' father said to one of my
uncle who is teacher during that time
and even he doesn't exist today because of impermanent nature of life. With this note he passed away peacefully.
So
mother and sister had huge responsibility to take care of household chores,
cattle and many unfinished business to sustain our family. One day, my mother
didn't allow me to continue my education
for almost three months because I have to accompany her to look after
cattle. With heavy heart, I agreed to be
with her and during that time; many messages from Dzongkha Lopen( National
language subject teacher) to my mom saying, '' innumerable words that I should
by any means continue my education''. At one point, my mom went to Dzongskha
Lopoen house with palang of ara( container of alcohol) and other thing to convinced him that I should discontinue my education by giving many justifications. However, Dzongkha
Lopoen didn't accepted the thing my mom wanted to go by and instead she was
given various advises and lectures on importance of education and all. So, she painstakingly agreed with my Dzongkha
Lopoen decision and fortunately I continued
my education almost after three months.
Even
then, I supported my mother like going straight to home after school to guard
maize fields while she's back journeying with cattle to home and carrying
essential food items to jungle hut during weekend. My journey to education up
until now is owing to many credits and gratitude to Dzongkha Lopoen
Tshering, mother and sister for sacrificing their time and helping me in many
ways and of course to My King and Country for providing free education.
I
still had much to achieve and realized my full potential based on father's final messages and my interested destination;
if ever I do not encounter unforeseen misfortune and other unavoidable
circumstances. Therefore, I believe everyone had their own story and incident
to share and making known to interested and lovable readers and writers seem
absolute significant.