Wearing my national dress back home has just been an everyday thing but it is totally a different feeling wearing it outside. There is a sense of pride and patriotism wearing our National Day outside Bhutan and today it was at the peak. It was like a precious and prestigious opportunity which I have been missing without even realizing it. Being able to wear the national dress, being able to come together as a Bhutanese and being able to watch His Majesty’s address to the nation today filled my heart with happiness and gratitude and eyes with tears. Clips of the celebration back home filled my social media pages since the start of December and it made me homesick every time I watched them. I guess home is both a person and a place.
Studying at an International University I get to mingle with the students from more than 70 different countries with unique cultures and traditions but I am yet to find a country like Bhutan. None of these countries have the values as tight and strong as ours. Maybe I sound biased when I make this statement but I am a Bhutanese and which Bhutanese won’t agree with me. When I was back home my eyes always wandered to the outside world and I swear I had envied all the fancy, tech-savvy and convenient things around the world but what I have realised being away from home is that the tight values of our country is incomparable to anything in the outside world. Being away from one’s home surely invokes one’s appreciation for the things one has.
Friends here are always awestruck whenever I share the stories from Bhutan and there are none who doesn’t wish to visit Bhutan. Every one of them wants to get rich and afford a visit to Bhutan one day and experience the stories they have heard from me. Bhutan may be a small nation in terms of size, economy and population but what we have is something no country in the world has. Bhutan is inarguably a paradise on earth.
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