My Watermark Moment

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Different people have different watermark moments in life. In my life, the three different events moved me significantly and those were the family celebration of Dashain in 2007 – the biggest festival in Nepal, the death of my mother in the same year, and the winning of U.S. Green Card Lottery for 2014 by my wife. The Dashain festival celebration of 2007 for me remained an unforgettable event in my life. It was in the sense that such moment never came back in my life again. As the whole nation was celebrating the festival, our small family also gathered together on the auspicious event. My two brothers returned back from Malaysia and UAE after long time gap. The ten-day long festival ended after receiving blessing from our grandmother and …show more content…

It was the source of hope for closely experiencing the world that reached the apex of development on the basis of scientific innovation and technology. We were the one of those couples selected among thousands of aspirant. There was another story that began after winning of the story. It was the story of preparing documents, medical checkup, planning for interview, sending documents, meeting with different relatives, visiting at various government offices, and ultimately getting visa for USA. I even went through some feelings of nervousness about going at newer world, adjusting in totally different cultures and environments. It was a big challenge for me to face all those situations at a time. Despite I had hard time mentally and physically I finally prepared to leave from Kathmandu with my wife. When we reached international airport in Kathmandu to depart from Nepal the moment became another terrible event for me. The situation went even worse at the moment of saying farewell to family members who were at the airport with us. They came with us up to the airport so that they could finally say us good bye. It was the shocking event that frequently comes into my

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