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"Always Trust Your Feeling." Really?

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"Always Trust Your Feeling?"  This dictum sounds familiar and appealing. It is often used by my colleagues to address the students who consumes without any thought analysis. It sounds wise, thus the popularity. However, the reality is nuanced and misleading. This article discusses why the dictum is appealing and explores to interrupt the assumptions that frame the popularity of the dictum. Why does this dictum sounds fascinating?  The combination of "trust," "your," and "feeling" powerfully blends to tap into appealing aspect of human psychology and experiences. It can be safe to assert that it is powerful enough to hijack our rational self. "Trust your feeling" offers us utterly unique reason that equivocally sound reasonable to justify our feeling and actions. This phrase also helps us shield from societal judgement which is either dichotomies or are not of our liking. Simply put, it helps in what I may call "social-self preserva...

Historical Account of Mangzee Brak Waterfall

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The waterfall of Mangzee Brak (aka Mangzee Brak Chuthor) is remarkable creation of nature that cascades down the foundational cliff of Yedang giving scenic and satisfactory view to flocks of Paam. Water falls from the height of around one hundred meters high cliff crashingg down into a beautiful shallow pool. On sunny days it is festooned with myriad coloured rainbows as if it is permanently etched on the background rock.

Chutheegang and its history

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If what I heard as a child wasn't wrong, village of Ngangla Kharchung was warned by a forefather (by a Lama to be precise)that in the era of degeneration river banks of Chuthegang will loss itself to test of time and confluence will be at the current footpath. The work has already begun, it seems. To those who don't know much about this place, Chethegang is a small land mass at the confluence of streams from Pam and Ladrong village, Jaray, Lhuntse.