Showing posts with label guidance. Show all posts
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Saturday 22 July 2023

"PEOPLE are more important than THINGS" - Nishan Karki



"Most of the important things in the world have been

accomplished by people who have kept on trying 

when there seemed to be no hope at all."


~Dale Carnegie




People and things are very different from each other. People are social beings who can communicate, interact, work, play, and share their thoughts, ideas, emotions and opinions, like other things. Things cannot do all the activities mentioned above. People possess many important values which make them more

important than things. Things are just objects which have a physical presence. Things include utensils, stationery, chair, table, electronics, etc. People only gave the ideas to invent these things. It shows that things exist because of the people who invented them. Therefore people are more important than things.


There are many reasons why people are more important than things. Some of them are listed below:


● People can take care and look out for each other, but things do not. We were not born, nourished and raised by things. It was our parents who did things. Parents are the people who were our first and foremost teachers who taught us to walk, eat, speak, play and help us to know about things.


● People can give us happiness and satisfaction more than things. There are only a few people who get satisfaction and happiness from things. But for most of us, we get satisfaction and happiness from people. People only provide support and help when we face problems in our life. They are the ones who encourage us to follow the right path to get success.


● Parents, friends, teachers, relatives and siblings are the people who make our life meaningful, not things.


● Even the value of gold, silver, diamond, etc., is less compared to people. We will get money by selling these minerals, but we will not get the support, help, encouragement and guidance that people can provide us.


Life would of no meaning if people were not present around us. Without other people in our life, we will have a limited viewpoint to look at the world.



Therefore, PEOPLE are more important than THINGS.





Written by-

Nishan Karki

Pestalozzi Children's Village, India

Thursday 5 January 2023

What I fear the most - Tenzin Nyingsel

Tenzin Nyingsel

Wed, 4 Jan, 09:54

Subject: Reflection on; What I fear the most and how I can overcome that fear...

I hope this email finds you well.

What I fear the most is generally what many people have been through, which is the fear of getting a scolding by their parents, especially my father; even though he is the most friendly person in the family, his anger is the most dangerous from our family.

I still remember the day when he scolded my brother for not picking me up from school and leaving me there till 6 or 7pm, which was very scary since I couldn't walk properly due to the injury on my foot. I can never forget that anger and the fight they both had because of me.
For me, that's my biggest fear and how to overcome that fear is still in process because I try my best not to make him angry and to always listen to his guidance.

Thank you for reading.

Yours faithfully,
Tenzin Nyingsel,
From PCVS (Pestalozzi Children's Village Society)