patriotic

Chandra Kanta Pandit Agreed but still doubt. I have hardly seen anyone living in the same place but the identity of the same soil has been changed. Let me serve me as an example. I was born in Rupakot Panchayat, then grown up in Sishuwa VDC, completed SLC from the Sishuwa VDC, later it became Lekhnath municipality, finally it has been the biggest metropolitan city of Nepal, named Pokhara Lekhnath Metropolitan city and ward nos differ but the place is the same. I have been struggling with dust, dirt, pollution, and injustice here in Kathmandu since 2048. I have spent nearly 27 years here in Kathmandu. Now could I claim myself as patriotic or not? I am living in Nepal, working for Nepal but ignoring the soil where I was born, grown up and made me able to be here in Kathmandu. I have the only nostalgia of the past, I could hardly remember the hazel in the forest, eel in the river, swimming in Rupa lake and Talkhola taking the clothes off and diving from the high cliff, grazing cattle in the deep forest and meadow, swinging like monkeys on Banyan and poplar trees, and my childhood friends with whom I used to play handmade ball putting pieces of clothes in the sock and sewing them making round as like a ball. I couldn't forget how I chopped snake while cutting grass, how I took out a long snake from the hole in the water thinking as an eel. I still remember my childhood. When I remember these happenings, smile sprouts, fear arises and feel ashamed when my clothes left on the bank of the river chewed and left like a net by an ox. Now, could I claim myself as a patriotic or a slave of time? I am in dilemma. If I claim a patriotic, I hardly visit my birthplace twice or three times a year. If I claim non-patriotic, I have not left Nepal. Is there any difference between the soil of Nepal and the soil of England or the soil of Arabian? Is there any difference between the knowledge we gain abroad and here at home? If we ignore our culture and tradition and adopt the westerners, who we are. When we forget our Vedas, Upanishad and other Hindus myths and study Bible, who we are. If we forget our Dhaka Topi and put on hats, how can we claim that we are patriotic? Shouldn't we need to redefine patriotism?