Getting the Remark ' The Neta Types'

Life has stored surprise packages and offers us in installments I assume. Recently, one of such packages was tossed to my side. One of my friends had got an opportunity to attend a workshop where he happened to meet a girl from my old school of my batch. Generally we start asking people if they know so and so person from the same school and he did the same. Her reply was "OMG!! KRITA BHATTARAI TYO NETA (politician/leader) TYPES!!!  Well right away I was off my mind.What the hell did she think of herself??? Does she not remember herself sleeping during the class lectures and having her note copy covered with her Thuk (saliva). How could she say so when I had done nothing wrong to her. Yes, I used to enjoy taking the lead at times and my nepali was better too but I don't understand how that gives her an excuse to call me a 'Neta'. I shared her remarks on me to few of my school friends and was finally happy to find that they had quite a number of funny incidents related to her which I better keep to myself. And with a light heart I laughed along with them. This is human nature so don't take it any other way. Good old school days always brings smile to everyones' face I guess.

Still her remark bothered me time and again for the following three days so I thought of giving it an optimistic view. After all Neta refers to leaders right and everyone wants to be know as one.There is no harm in being recognized as one and its even better that you were recognized at your early days. I questioned myself, why was I so pissed off with the word Neta?? Then a simple answer ran into my mind; because in Nepal Netas are not looked upon as a leader but merely as politicians who are a slack of useless bulk.Good for nothing, selfish persons who enjoy filling their pockets and keeping the general people at confusion, dirty people doing a dirty business and so on. With a transitional phase that seems to be never ending, with nearly doomed economy and the everyday cat race for the post and power leaves no single good impression of Netas on us. Very few of us see our career as a politician though these days slight changes have been felt in the mindset of young people. Personally, I never see myself as a politician in the days to come.

What I believe is that our country is not in need of politicians but of those people who do their jobs in the right way and let others do theirs and do not interfere. These people would be teachers, policy makers, doctors, engineers, students, entrepreneurs, drivers, plumbers, police and army officers, mechanics, journalists, civil servants and so on. One thing that really gets into my nerves these days is that politics has entered into every wing of the society. Rather than doing ones job people are more inclined towards certain party politics, getting affiliations and strengthening this vicious network of  favoritism. Another thing is that we all want to be leaders,      but tend to forget that in order to be a good leader one also should possess the virtue of accepting others lead and learning from them. We all are well aware that too many cook spoil the broth.

Having said the above things I would like to go back to where this all started and would like to thank that friend whose remarks helped me construct this write up. Though I'm still not Ok for being referred to as Neta at all but it did help me wonder why I or we are so not fond our politicians.

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