Dorji Tenzin: Random Thoughts like Cries of a Clown

  When I was a teenager, people of the community and relatives advised me to study hard so that one day, I will be on the revolving chair ordering the things around. I studied hard and got to sit on the revolving chair. Nobody told me to be smart and cunning. Now with almost a decade in public service, I have realized that people who are smart are never on the revolving chairs. Most of the time, they will be out of office leaving the chair empty and table neat. The public will never meet the smart people in the office. They will be on tour, training and workshops and rightly so if they want to progress in the society. Nobody gives a damn if you are hardworking. Only reward will be more work. Now I understand why smart people are never sitting on the chair even receiving applause for not spoiling a chair a bit in five years. When you leave your own empty and sit on the chairs of star-rated hotels and conference rooms, you have mainly three advantages; free food, more money in the ...