I am not giving a speech but I hereby would like to share a few things that I have been doing which to many extent I believe has changed me from within and they would be also a matter of ''not ever thought of'' idea for many.
1. A categorical 'No' with the cold
drinks
For the last two years I haven't
celebrated anything with a cold drink in my hands. Yes, I have completely
abandoned consuming any cold beverages like Coke, Fanta, Pepsi or the suchlike.
Out of the scorching heat of the summer days these drinks would have been my
favorite things or I would savor the bits of taste by grogging on the cold
drinks in any party events. I don't throw you a sermon demanding you not to
drink the cold drinks but I request you if you do then please run a distance of
at least one and a half kilometers and return for every 355 ml of sweet drinks
like Coca-Cola. I feel so ashamed to see that our kitchen cupboards have been
replaced by the synthetic bottles of half-filled sweet beverages instead of
milk, curd or yoghurt which according to our culture were the 'organic' cold drinks for
generations.
2. Focus on Nepalese product as much
as you can
Quite recently, not more than a year
now, I mostly wear Gold Star shoes, which is the foot apparel prepared by the
Nepali Company. Since it has an array of products in different categories with
ranges of prices, designs and trends, you can perfectly fit in to provide for
your choice, then why simply covet for a simulated Chinese product in the names
of popular brands? So, as much as possible, it is good to promote the business
operating within your own country that has been one component of stanchion for
the economic growth of the country. It not only pays taxes to the government,
at the same time it gives opportunities for the Nepali citizens for exploring
their career furthermore. I am not advertising for the Gold Star, it was just
an example. For people with high affordability and yearning for quality there
might be Sonam or Sherpa products. This is again an example to simply mean that
there are many Nepalese products that are available there but you might not
know till now. You have to explore to see your choice. It is simply to say that
you will be serving your country more as you
wear the Nepalese products.
While it is simply not always
possible, I would like to prescribe the Nepalese brands of medicines/drugs and
also would seek the Nepalese replacement of the drugs as I go to buy ones in a
drug store.
3. Refueling your vehicle from a
public gas station
I always refuel my vehicle from a petrol pump that has institutional ownership. For example, 99% of the time I refuel my motorbike from Sajha Petrol Pump, and rarely from Army or Armed Police 's Petrol pumps. On only rarest of the rare occasions I had to refuel from a privately owned fuel station. Institutional growth is directly related to the country's growth. In a developed country, the social institutions are very strong not because the country is rich but because the social institutions are strong the country has become rich. So, you purchase the fuel from institutions like Sajha or Sashastra, then instead of personal growth, an institution will grow.
Also, it evokes some
doubt in my mind as I have been spectator of the cases of fraud by the owners
of gas/fuel station in the past that they have been frequently arraigned after
raids from the government when their stations are rigged with system that
displays the falsified reading for the low amount of refueling. How can I trust
them fully when the raids are nowadays also done not unbeknownst to the
stakeholder? But I can trust the gas station with institutional ownership
because they run with salaried staff with a
universal system and not a single person will benefit from the business unlike
in the total private modality of ownership.
4. Support the bootstrapping
business
Today you don't have to run very far
to see the flamboyant restaurants: standing alone or
being run from a chain. They will charge you painfully higher for
the surroundings you spend the time in than for the actual food you will get
on
the plates. The court has ruled out that they can't impose extra bills for the
VAT and the service charges beyond the amount written in the menu but that does
not happen in everyday practice. You order food costing 200 rupees from the
menu and you will end up going out red-faced after being a scapegoat that pays
extra thirty three rupees for every hundred-rupee you spend. You can eschew from
the fabric of broad daylight skullduggery by not entering the doorsteps of such
seemingly inviting places. If you get value for every rupee you pay, then
certainly you can go because there are also places that have done a great deal
to add the avenues for a good pastime. At the same time, there are also places
that have duplicitous standards for a high price. So, we make a rather wise
decision by selecting our rendezvous that wittily utilizes used or old stuff or
artistically modifies the atmosphere with very low cost. Sometimes, the
uniqueness can have a price but a real bootstrapping business only charges
reasonable because they have not invested heavily in the first place.
5. Eat less whenever possible
As your age goes on adding up, there
are chances that you will catch new diseases, mostly chronic ones like type 2
diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, uric acids, and the lists simply go
on. When you don't do what nature has made you for then certainly some problems
are bound to arise. For example we have two legs which means we were made to
walk, not ride vehicles for all our mileage we accomplish. You don't walk
enough, you don't have time to exercise daily, no yoga, nothing. But you don't
let your mouth and stomach rest. This new paradox of modern life gets you to
irrecoverable sickness and once you get that, you have it for the rest of your
life and there is enough time for you to repent. So, food is a poison when you
take it more than you actually need and you need even less when you don't have much
physical activities. So eating should be just for providing your dietary needs
not for binging.
There are so many more things we can
do, write your own below if you have your own.
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