2:17 pm
The wall clock above
the whiteboard proudly displayed. Still 43m to go. Two hours block period right
after heavy lunch isn’t easy both for students and lecturer. Thank god! Sir Tshewang
Lhendup informed that he will be discussing the solution of a recent term test
question after completing the questions we were solving.
Sir began writing on
the board. I, in vain search the test paper by flipping my notebook and design
codes before finally giving up. There was something written on the board which
wasn’t the solution of test paper. He might have noticed students battling to
keep their eyes open as he wrote;
Great
people discuss ideas,
Average
people discuss events,
And
small people discuss people.
“So under which category do you fall? Does anyone here discuss ideas?” he asked. As
always, silence replied him.
“May
be ideas like how to cheat in the exam.” his statement earned giggles from the
class this time.
He
read lines from the board and said that he read those lines from somewhere in
the morning. “We Bhutanese rarely discusses ideas. If we were discussing ideas,
we wouldn’t be too dependent on neighboring countries.”
He pointed that starting from the pen we are
writing to the gho he is wearing is imported. Everything here is imported. He wittily
expressed his concern for nation “hope this dependency of importing stuffs from other
country won’t export us from our own country.”
“People
here usually discuss people; who is dating whom? How big and expensive car is
he/she driving? Who is cheating their spouse in the absence? That person is
corrupted or she/he is behind the bars? What is he/she wearing? Who is who? Something
like that.”
As
he continued “Some discuss events such as a party, but at the end they lend
up discussing people. But they rarely discuss ideas. An idea which can change a
life, but nobody bothers to discuss.”
He
said that people juggle their conversations from events to people and people to
people only. Wouldn’t it be amazing to discuss ideas and concrete it?
He
asked again “So under which category do
you fall? This is a thought for a day.”
“Now
back to term test question…………………”
