I say I am 22. It’s been some time I am doing that. I turned
23 on 29th October ,2012. And I realized it some moments ago. A friend
of mine said he did the same himself. I have this strange union with this
number ‘23’. Ever since, David Beckham went to play for Real Madrid and had
this number on his back, I got addicted to this umber. It’s like I am married
to this number, only it sounds crazy. Then Beckham went to play elsewhere and
that number got retained in my memory.
I have an idea about, why I didn’t want to shift ahead of ‘22’?
Twenty three sounds hell more of a responsibility than just a number that
signals age in this regard. ‘23’ means,
get all your shit together and hunt for a job. It is time to scrutinize the
newspaper, find a job that will rip all your heart out and still pay less. It
means, I cuff my hands to the second hand on the clock and make up to it’s
pace. It’s about time; I give up my classy sleeping routine and wake up on
alarms. It means people start talking about your wage, compare it to the random
rich people and make you feel like shit. It’s time to get all shitty. So, I don’t want
to turn ‘23’.
A random website on numerology, explaining the significance
of ‘22’ says that it is a very special number in Numerology. It was said ‘master’
number by Pythagorous. It is very auspicious for the creative phenomena and
somehow it has something to do with lunar waves as well. It has a presence of
higher moon energy number ‘20’ and its lower form number ‘2’. It is very
powerful due to strong lunar waves. Somewhere in the middle of this line‘ But
most human being of this age have no greater magnetic field around them to utilize
this powerful energy into constructive actions.’ I sensed melancholy, a tragedy of our
generation. A perceptible number of young folks of my age in my town think they
are cool. They have this false impression because they own a bike, it is well modified
and the helmet is costly too. Their phones and all the accessories they possess
have -‘i’-as an initial alphabet. They have weird sense of dressing and strange
Korean names as a sobriquet. Girls on the other hand own a scooter and look
prettier even with the weird dressing sense. Girls have gone crazily
preoccupied with Korean dramas and are attracted to those Korean dressed
Nepalese. These guys are living happily ever after and I am the only one that
finds it tragic.
I found it more tragic when I remembered from this talk show
with Miss Nepal 2013, Miss Ishani Shrestha not being able to recognize Pushpa
Basnet. She was asked to say out the names of the people on the photographs
shown to her and she didn’t know Puspha Basnet. I don’t know if this talk show
made a headline next day, but I felt sorry for her. She could speak very good English
though and she would enunciate this word ‘like’ all the time. Young hearts of
Kathmandu, RJs, DJs, VJs and the kind of people you meet on the parties, everybody
says ‘like’. Some with excellent use of English language, rest with a fine
mixture of mother tongue. ‘like yesto huncha ni, like k tyo hunchani’ , I hear
this all the time.
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg became the youngest ever billionaire
at the age of 23. In 22nd year of his life, he must have had a
greater magnetic field around him to utilize this powerful energy into
constructive actions. He is definitely the coolest guy world has ever known. He
created facebook that almost every people having an internet access are an
account holder of. He is a different tale, a success story from United States. This
story might not be equivalent to any other stories in our country. But, he is a
result of talking ideas instead of bikes and phones. When heads talk more about innovation,
creativity and passion than helmets and mobile accessories billionaire like
Zuckerberg is likely to be born in our country too. If focus on ‘like’ in a
sentence is channeled to likes in poetry, novels , science, dramas ,reading
newspapers or at least watching news on TV, Miss Nepal would not have hard time
figuring out who Pushpa Basnet was. If
someone asks me, how old I am? I am still going to reply, ‘22’. I want to
utilize this powerful energy into constructive actions too and contemplate the changes in me.
