When I first stepped into pageantry, I remember thinking to myself that I would continue to bloom as I am. Whether that meant wearing natural fabrics, no fake eyelashes, unpainted nails, or eco-friendly makeup—it would all still be me.

For almost three weeks now, with the help of many ecopreneurs and eco-designers, we’ve done it. We stayed true to that intention.

Our Beauty with a Purpose, Pancha Pranali, was a promise to our country—a promise to stop using words like “underprivileged” or “underdeveloped,” and instead share our strengths with the world. Although this may not be the conventional way of measuring impact, we have been practicing something deeper: the impact of shifting perspectives.

I had the courage to take part in the 72nd Miss World because a little teenager once believed in her own strength. So why wouldn’t I do the same for my country?

In the last two years alone, almost a million people have left Nepal for foreign employment. A narrative that removes indigenous strengths from its people can be dangerous. I want us to remember what we’ve always held—that it’s not global challenges we carry, but global solutions.

Miss World has been a platform where I could live my purpose—sometimes in the smallest of ways. And the support I’ve received for this abstract journey has been truly heartwarming.

It was never about winning. It was always about blooming—fully, simply—as a daughter of the Earth. Everything else can come later.

Tomorrow might mark the end of this chapter, but it’s the beginning of many more journeys for Nepal. And once again, I will not be asking for votes—because I never began this journey to bring the crown home. I simply ask you to breathe with me—with the trees, the birds, the rivers and more—and to remember: Our crown was always in our home.Strength is always in her home.