Dear Lady,

Again I was ready for a quick response. But your message contained one of the easiest questions in the civilization of mankind, which has the hardest answer. You asked me what I do for daal bhat. I don???t know why this question made me think about very small things in life. The things, which are really tiny to see and they are common in all people in this world.

I reached a conclusion that the life of human beings would have been like something totally different, if they didn’t have to eat daal bhat. Desire for daal bhat has made the world so mechanic, so conflicting and somehow like an existence derailed from humanity.

Only if I didn’t have to eat daal bhat or if I didn???t have to spend more than 10 hours of everyday to struggle for food, there would have been so many beautiful things I would have been doing.

Well, now let me tell you clearly, I consume fossils fuels and contribute to the environmental degradation everyday to reach my office. That???s what I do for daal bhat. I rage enmity with co-workers and bosses, carry lots of stresses and tensions, I pull and I am pulled, I backbite and I am backbitten. I spend most of the hours among shapeless crowd; I am compelled to laugh at nothing. I see lots of replicas of robots that can do anything for daal bhat. I mean I contribute to the personal and social malfunction. That???s what I do for daal bhat.
If I wouldn’t have to do anything for daal bhat, I would have done something really beautiful, something that doesn’t require any diplomatic skill to make fragile deals of living. I would have breathed the air calmly. I would have visited every corner of the world. I would have written beautiful songs, I would have kept myself busy on talking to mountains, I would have measured the desert, I would have danced at the top of the world, I would have apparently flied over the sky of dreams. I would have been a free and happy human being.

I deeply regret for the person who opened the Pandora’s Box and taught the entire human beings to live for daal bhat.

Regards

• *Daal Bhat: a regular and popular set of Nepali Meal.