The Blue Legacy

हिंसा विरोध शान्ति अठोट

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verything happens for a reason. But we don’t know what it is meant to be… It maybe what they call destiny is… something we just have no control over.

Experience is learning a lot of things you shouldn’t do. If we never did anything we shouldn’t do, we’d never feel good about the things we should. I am glad I learnt from my “mistakes” earlier in my life. The sooner you fall down, the more time you have in hand to get up and move on. The higher up the mountain, the more treacherous the path.

I always wanted to be one of them “Men in Black (MIB)” guys… the corporate guys. There’s where I decided to spend the four most precious years of my life learning the stuffs that may take me a lifetime to unlearn.Back then I thought money meant most thing (if not everything) in life. I totally overlooked the fine line between philosophy and reality. Philosophy is good so long you contemplate on it. But it gets you nowhere concrete. What is the point of drawing a line in sand? The wind blows and before you know it you are right back to where you started. Such a waste of talent to choose money over power… a mistake nearly everyone makes. Money is the house of cards that starts falling with a mere blow of wind. Power is the old stone building that stands for centuries. I cannot respect someone who doesn’t see the difference… Not even myself.

I had a couple of routes ahead of me following the graduation: Spend the rest of my entire life recovering from the mistakes of the first quarter of life as a “Man in Black”, or… Reinvent myself totally and start fresh as “Man in Blue”.

I opted for the latter one. It was the huge gamble I played with my life. I decided to join the Nepal Police forgoing all other opportunities at hand. I gave up the internship opportunity with ICIMOD. I cancelled my IELTS date. I didn’t sign up for the Erusmus Mundus Scholarships. This was all before I had even appeared in the recruitment and selection of Nepal Police Inspector. It was like sky-walking on a thin rope. The higher up the tree a cat climbs, the farther it will fall. It’s same for human beings, except we don’t bounce so easily. Then comes the pain. There are two kinds of pain. The sort of pain that makes you strong, or useless pain. The sort of pain that’s only suffering… I have no patience for useless things.

It’s the Blue Legacy now I have to carry on. For me, serving in Nepal Police is not a matter of mere profession. As a serving Police Officer’s son, Policing is more of a culture to me. It is a Legacy in Blue. It’s not only the matter of power. I have at least learned vicariously the challenges as a police officer. Being a police officer is not for everyone. One thing I have learnt from my father as a Police Officer is that self-respect is the root of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

©Linkinmyth 2016: The Blue Legacy