“Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
– Langston Hughes
Many of the times we relate to those lines
of Hughes.
We contemplate. Yet, fail to act upon. We dream.
Yet, dare to achieve. We aspire success. Yet, too afraid to lose. Then, with
each new sunsets we are burdened with very new regrets; of all those plans that
we couldn’t figure out in reality, of all those wishes that didn’t come true,
of all those accidents that could have been prevented. Every night we bury our
dreams and then comes that holy morning with the ignition of our knowledge that
our life has already torn apart between the fantasy and reality, between
promises and struggles. And we clench our feathers.
Scripts may be different but in some ways
we find ourselves in the situation when we feel we can’t move ahead, when none
of our plans are working and whatever we do, we are miles away from our dreams.
Then, we feel that only the intellectuals like Confucius can glorify failure.
Only they can say it’s not about failing but about rising after each fall; we
conclude. Albeit, there are some who don’t fall on this category. Nita Adhikari
is the one.
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| Nita Adhikari |
When I already shared about rising after
failure, you must have been anxious about what Nita had been through. But I
don't feel significant sharing it here. Why to look back at the problem, when it already found its solution?
If you are someone close to her and
reading this you already know about it, or if you are unaware what had
happened, it's of no use knowing about the past now. Let's meet our new Nita
who likes to call herself a "Travaventure freak" is now a girl full
of life and fun. Her story of rising will definitely be an inspiration to
several of us who feel life is no more than lost dreams.
Nita had always dreamed of working as a
media person. But it wasn't so easy for her with her parents who desperately
wanted their daughter to be an engineer. Only she knows how hard it was for her
to convince her father to pursue her study in Management and again asking them
to let her work in media was like asking for trouble.
Then, a question arises suddenly how did
she dare to start her own channel?
For her, it all started with the
assignment from her teacher. A significant event occurred in her life that
broke down her life and dreams and at that time her teacher, Pratik Raj
Neupane, who she sees as her mentor now, had been organizing counselling
sessions for his students and he asked her to reflect upon her strength and
passion. When she expressed she is interested on talking with new people, he
asked her to go to Thamel and talk and record with any random stranger. It
somewhat boosted her confidence, then she started participating in different
motivational talk programs and in one of those programs she was highly influenced
by one of the motivational speakers who told no one is going to take you to the
place you dream for, it's you who have to prove that you are capable of
reaching there and need to thrive for it.
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| Nita, with her team after one of the shoots with the prominent figure of Nepal, Karna Shakya |
Since then, those lines have become her
'guru mantra'. Then she approached her friends who could help her in camera,
editing, asked help with her college video making team and geared herself to
research on whom to and how to approach the guest she wants to talk to. Her
first guest was renowned movie director and actor of Nepal Nischal Basnet.
Until and unless he came to the location for shoot, she was in dilemma if he
would come or not and if her step would turn out to be success or something
more frustrating. There, he came and she launched her first show "Ramailo
Guff with Nita" on YouTube on 18th of Januray, 2016 and there was no
stepping back.
She has now hundreds of supporters with
her and wonderful stories to share. Amid all these, how has this dare to start
her own channel shaped her is the most interesting one. With each new episode,
a new learning is what she earns. She says patience is what she has been able
to develop, "We prepare a lot for our single episode from research to
camera to location but sometimes, even the most well known actors step back
from their promise and we have to return empty hand. That nights are the most
frustrating nights but I have learned not to give up and keep
striving."
Determined Nita with her enthusiastic
friends is now putting all her effort to make her talk show one of the most
standard talk show of Nepal. She knows reaching on to that dream is difficult
but not that impossible as well. "We are creeping now but there will be
the day when we would be flying and changing the Nepali Media Industry. Finance
is our biggest hurdle now. We are working voluntarily till now and the question
is up to when. I need to think of it as well. But then, we are so passionate
about it that we would definitely figure our way out for it." shares
Nita.
When I was having this ramailo guff (joyful chat) with Nita, my final question
to her was, "What has been the most cherishable moment during this
journey?"
Her answer was "it's the support of
my family. I had gone against their dreams but now they are supporting me in
their own little ways. In the mean time, after each episode, a sense of happiness flows in me when my
guests appreciate me for my effort. I am happy these days because it's me; the real me." She adds "everyone will find their happiness only when they find themselves. We need to be just the way we are."
Nita has spread her wings for her journey
of transformation and I wish her for a successful flight.
You may watch her programs at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2ysLDZerZDRykDI_1HPNtg
Follow her program via Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/ramailoguff/?fref=ts
