Here goes a saying "don't look down unless you can
help them come up".
Have you ever heard someone enquiring about Manipur's
present law and order situation to a Meitei? More
important, have you heard a Meitei answering to those
queries? "It's bad, you cannot survive
blah...…..blah".
Enough of fact findings about the
problem, have you ever heard anyone talking about a
sensible solution?
Do you want peace? "Yes".
Do you want your life to besecured? "Yes".
Do you want to be employed? "Yes".
Doyou want to stay happily with your family in Manipur? "Yes".
Do you want Manipur to be corrupt free society? "Yes".
Is there anyone who doesn't want any of these? I
suppose everyone wants it, but the difference would be
how many considered it as needs, not just wants.
How many are working towards fulfilling it? Lots of
question and lot more can be asked.
"Peace" I want my piece of peace no matter it breaks
others peace to get my piece of peace. That's how we
work out to get peace.
"Secured Life" Secured from
AFSPA, or is there anything to think beyond that?
"Employment", Try your luck with your local MLA but
make sure that you appear for the interview which
would be taken by his wife, you may also appear the
other interview which will be conducted by the concern
department.
If you are educated and know a little bit
of personal relationship building then, you have
"NGO".
The market is matured with many veteran
players, what you should do is get the first project
granted and then vanish under the cloud.
"Happily with
family in Manipur" Three wish in one?
Well, one is
worth a fortune. We may call this conflicting
objective yet there are lucky ones who paved their
way.
You could be happy for being with your family,
beyond that you have to sacrifice happiness to buy
happiness.
"Corrupt society", you don't like it but
when it comes to you, you don't mind doing a bit of
it. Anyways it has been a culture, you don't change
the culture, and culture should be preserve.
I hope there is thought beyond the practices followed.
Off course there is, and people talk all the while
about it for others to followed and understand it.
The
process of identification and reciprocation of
constructive thought within us has made a full circle
except leaving everyone to talk for others. In this
process everyone has been left out of the process.
We
are in a game; our dedication, involvement and active
participation are needed, not spectators view. Imagine
a team comprising of Maradonas with each of them
advising the other how to play while none of them
play.
Too many good advisors with none of them ready
to take a role other than an advisor. It is obvious
that when you have most of the population as
spectators you have a lot of different views on the
field where the observation is made.
However each of
these spectators has a role in the filed too, yet they
lack in understanding the composition of spectators
versus player.
As a result everyone one ends up giving
views about each other with each of them commenting as
a spectator to a spectator.
How good these spectators are?
Are they empowered with the knowledge to bring about
economic and social improvement in other lives?
Is
there a modest origin of this so called spectator to
be a spectator? Is spectator similar to a leader or a
guide?
ARE YOU A SPECTATOR? Would you want to answer
in favor of yourself by saying you are a spectator or
a player?
Whatever conclusive idea you have would be
best drained in to your mind yet you won't be a
spectator of yourself I suppose.
Social Responsibility of an Individual:
The term "Social Responsibility of an Individual" is a
normative concept, which sounds somewhat elusive when
one tries to define it or to delimit it.
Responsibility itself is a word which needs to be
assigned, in this context we refer to your assigned
responsibilities for being an individual living in a
society.
Depending on your individual principle and
ideology and the space you occupy in the society your
responsibility varies. An individual is an integral
part of a society, a building block.
It is in the best
interest of the society and the individual to
understand the binding force which binds each of this
individual into a society.
The binding force is not
being a Manipuri and loving Manipur, it's how well you
learn and implement the art of sharing and loving. You
neither lose nor win in sharing and loving.
Your
responsibility doesn't lie in leading or following
someone, but it lies in being a good reciprocator of
your good thoughts.
Nongmaithem Meghanath writes regularly to e-pao.net
He ".. write my surname first (to show that I belong to a yumnak which acts very formal yet talks a lot)
and followed by my names which identify me as one of them."
The writer can be contacted at [email protected]
This article was webcasted on 12th September 2005.
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