Hello @dhhakal, welcome to edgeryders.
Last weeks we spent a lot of time with @Matthias discussing issues that seem important and obvious even for newcomers in Nepal - such as lack of motivation and the tricky matter of building social movements. Matthias even wrote a piece based on these discussions.
At the same time, I keep in mind times when I was studying at the University of Iceland and I took “grassroot activism” as one of my subjects. It was 6 years ago, and we went through a lot of literature, and the problem of motivation was always present. Very few movements, organisations, initiatives and ideas will ever manage to involve enough motivated people to do all the work.
Motivation surely is a key factor and a tricky matter. About discipline - i hear a lot of stories saying that people are not really disciplined in Nepal, but I would disagree. They’re just differently disciplined, with different objectives. They need discipline to survive, as they can only rely on themselves.
I guess we should turn your piece a little bit upside down and start from this point: “Many complain today that there is no room for improvement in our country because there is no room at all to begin with”. This seems so wrong in a country where so many things beg for improvement! Now, I am not sure if we should demand from masses, living poor simple lives in the villages, to feel motivated while they’re just left aside and forgotten - first, basic improvements in their lives need to be done. We start then with inclusion, with a sense that everyone is provided and taken care of. Then, you can imagine there will be space for motivation. About discipline, the kind of discipline they teach you at schools is not exactly what I am a fan of. There is a need for independently thinking people who can work on they believe in and know the ways to make it happen. And the right amount/kind of it should be coming along with motivation I guess;)
I’m sorry I am not making things clearer or simpler, just asking questions and wondering, but this is where we’re all at these days - overwhelmed and puzzled about how to make good things succeed, searching for the right answers.