u/baldur_imortal

i cant tell for every single person's ig/youtube feed in Nepal but with the surge of self help productivity and "deep" philosophical short videos, and even more creators pushing such content which they obviously dont plagiarize from one another, i think i finally understand why people from our parent's generation and older were glued to the tv when old hairy indian men covered in vibrant drapes would quote stories from "Sastra" as blandly as possible, with painfully dull sitar music playing in the background that would put anyone to sleep, and occasional shots of people in the audience yawning in unison, it was either that or uncensored war footage from the maiost insurgency, and then when the war was finally over, came the Shanit Samjauta which felt like it took an eternity to complete.

i think it was their way of coping with everything that was happening back in the day, their attempt to find comfort during hard uncertain times, just like so many of us do today by following Huberman and dozens of other self help gurus, only the stakes were much higher back then. or perhaps they were just really into hairy old men telling stories and monotone Sitar music and it had nothing to do with seeking solace, they were just huge fans of the sport.

i have been getting recommended videos of people documenting their lives working at fancy places in bidesh where they are given free food and they show the entire buffet of food and pick what they want to eat. while the buffets are mostly meat heavy but some food items look very unappetizing, like boiled corn and unseasoned vegetables. my question is, is it frowned upon to skip those food and only pick the meat? is there an unspoken rule about that? 

or is there an abundance of livestock, and vegetables cost just as much as meat so people dont really care what you gobble down? there was this one video of a famous travel vlogger in Nepal where he visited a local restaurant in the mountains and when food was served, he asked the girl serving the meal to take back the rice and asked only to eat the potatoes. the guy kept on insisting to bring him only potatoes but it fell on deaf ears, obviously because potatoes are scarce in the mountains and the girl couldnt just let one guy eat all the potatoes and rest of them starve. so is meat scarce or is it considered a staple?

im sorry for brining something so silly, but i really wanted to know what its like in bidesh

and if possible, also mention your age or a range. and if you have friends of different age groups, mention them too, like for example older dudes with kids who are just chill and would hang out with anybody

imagine you have wanted something so badly for as long as you can remember and then one day you finally get it but then you realize that its nothing like what you expected and face utter disappointment. its not that you have outgrown it, even if you had gotten it when you were a child, youd feel the same, its objectively disappointing.

so would you rather have gotten it as a child and seen the thing firsthand, been disappointed and moved on, or live most of your life in the hope of getting that thing, only to finally get it one day and face the same disappointment? would you rather have been done with it as a child or chase that high and have something going on for yourself

back before dogs ever became a man's best friend, a group of lustful Daedra worshipers in the early 70s in Nepal summoned a portal to the depths of hell, and from there some of the vilest of hounds born of wedlock and incest made their way to Nepal and would terrify the hearts of children and men alike for eons to come. the war crimes committed by those foul creatures stained our lands with blood and will be remembered as one of the darkest hours in the history of Nepal.

growing up i learned to fear dogs, and for the right reasons. parents were just as much scared of dogs as they were of kidnappers, but now i see parents letting their kids play with dogs without an inch of worry. i think this has also to do with modern day dogs being much less aggressive then their alpha male ancestors, and that has to do with people not putting dogs on leashes as much as they used to do in the past. or its the fancy dog food people feed their dogs that have suppressed their vengeful nature in them and have made them soft.

i just cant put my head around how some dogs seem so happy all the time, when just a decade ago, they were always looking for a reason to tear your limb apart. there was this one dobermann at someone's place i used to visit as a child, that would bite an entire football in one bite just to assert his dominance, but fortunately enough for us, it was almost always inside his cage. i rarely saw him outside, and i thank the gods everyday for that, and i think he ate his food inside too, which i think that was what drove him to madness.

while it feels like we are living in the final days of an age of filthy demonic mongrel like dogs, i still sometimes find myself being chased by stray puppies, against my will, in shady neighborhoods in eerie situations, but their overall numbers have dwindled significantly, the well groomed aristocratic asshole dogs raised on FDA approved succulent dog food have outnumbered the humble favela born working class dogs, who are no less assholes themselves.

without giving too much away, i didnt have the best childhood but i have had experiences as a child i will forever cherish. it feels like i have already hit my prime and im simply surviving living off those memories. and i know in the back of my mind that its simply impossible to reach near those levels so when something what seems really exciting is about to happen, i tell myself that while it seems very exciting and all, it will still amount to a very average experience and i then push myself and really commit to it if i want to get any fun out of it. its just one subpar experience after another.

the feeling can be compared to your parents buying you a very fancy phone as a kid with top of the line specs but then you loose it right when you reach your teenage years, and then being given a phone, i wouldnt say just good enough to make calls, but actually a decent phone but worse than your old phone in every way, the speakers sound distorted at high volumes and the screen isnt crisp enough. so whenever you take your new phone out, you get reminded of your old phone, so you dont take it out as much, and instead use your computer more because the screen there isnt as bad and doesnt hurt your eyes.

im not complaining however, it just something i have come to notice more and more, and i consider myself very privileged for everything i had as a child and for what i still have now, and i also dont think that you should be having a blast all the time. i just want to know if everyone makes peace with it or is it im making it more apparent than it is for everyone else.

growing up i loved hearing stories from my dad and being very excited whenever he would tell one. there also used to be an art teacher in my school when i was a kid who would sometimes tell us stories when she didnt feel like teaching. other teachers would tell stories from moral science books too. now i dont mean thick novels, but short little stories, a few pages long. i remember having a few of those short storybooks when i was a kid but the problem was i coudlnt read yet.

it was also extremely common for adults to tell stories to kids from time to time when people gathered together or when kids would visit them. but i dont see that happening very often anymore or maybe they still do and im just out of touch. or maybe the new generation of kids are no longer interested in the stories we grew up with and theyd rather watch whatever kids watch these days, or adults simply dont put any effort into it and theyd rather hand them a screen and be done with it.

i got recommended a video on youtube about Hatim the tv show today. he said that it was inspired from the Arabian nights but a guy named Hatim did exist around 12th century but sadly didnt have any powers like the protagonist from the show. Arabian nights which if you didnt know was in itself inspired from a fictional story or possibly historical events idk, tells a story of a Sultan whould would marry a new wife everyday and have her killed the next. one of his wives however finds a way to stay alive by tricking the sultan into not killing her by telling him stories every night and leaving a small cliff hanger so that he would keep her alive to hear the rest of it the next night, which the stories would later become the Arabian nights, which if you didnt know, is where Alladin and Ali Baba and 40 thieves come from. i remember my dad telling me this when i was a child, which made me wonder if adults still tell children stories. parents of this sub, do you tell your kids stories?