Can I make a difference?

“Life has no value without struggle” 

Damcho Thrienlee Gyeltshen

Damcho Gyeltshen is the final student teacher of Paro College of Education. He is a dedicated and inspiring filmmaker who has a diploma in film making from Asian Academy of Films Television Studies. He worked with more than three Bhutanese films in different categories. For more detail, contact: gnhfilmsproductionbtn@gmail.com

 According to the Collins dictionary, difference means the way they are unique and unlike others. We say we cannot make a change alone but we must also remember that when something has started, it always start with a single person sharing the idea of doing so. As soon as your minds reflect, I can’t, you should convince yourself, it is the weakest part of you, making you fail before you try. 

Bringing to the current scenario, democracy is the catch word among the cluster of people when are dissatisfied by some unavoidable circumstances. If we have the clear view of the nature of people, it is quite astonishing that we come to speak out the word democracy when we are in a problem or when you are forced to do something by somebody. To have the clean and effective democracy in our peaceful and incredible nation, we should understand the individual difference that can contribute in infusing the foundation of democracy. Democracy should not only be the word to be spoken, it should be the action in reality.

Now a question evolve in our mind, how we can make a difference, how a single person can do a huge job. Firstly you do not do not think that you cannot think, you have to agree to disagree to your question. Once in Thimphu, a boy was bullied by a gang of boys. He got frustrated and angry at the same time. Then he started a gang called “MB boys”.  MB Boys were asked to decentralize by the chief of police when the member of MB spread over five hundred. When a single man got angry, he gave rise to five hundred other young boys to wake up for their defense. When he can lead a troop, why you can’t?

A young man without a limb has given a motivation speech in one of the college in the west. He stood on the table and spoke nothing but faced down to a chart paper. All the collagen thought, how this man can motivate us when he do not have limb. The level of ambiance from the crowd started capturing the space of the hall. The speaker struggled to turn to the crowd and showed the chart. Many of the audience started shedding tears and some even busted into loud. What do you think he have written on the chart. He just wrote, “Why you cannot do, when I can without a limb.” He made a difference in life of many individuals. 

While getting into the action, you might face some problems but on the contrary, I would say life has no value without a struggle. Struggle will make you a better person, competing with the rest. Your struggle will make you stronger to withstand amongst all the rest. I can assure that nobody will do nothing for nobody. You might think that my writing do not contain any thing about democracy since I talked about it in the beginning. To have democracy is to have active enrollment of individuals and to have active individuals is to have difference in each.