Thepfulhouvi Solo
An old man in the Village developed a wearisome habit of restlessly vanishing from his house frequently without information to the small girls entrusted to keep an eye on him when the grown-ups are away for their own works.
One day, the Man vanished and was not to be traced anywhere in the vicinity. Later, it was learned he had gone to a distant place and returned without any mishap. And when the elderly Aunties ruefully talked about the man’s restlessness, one of the small girls on whose charge the old man used to be left said:
“Nowadays even Elderly People have become very disobedient”!
Indeed it is often easier to bring understanding to a young Fool than to an elderly Intellectual. More often than was descent, this Homo sapien has lamented young bloods in the Nagas seemed to have lost the interest to invest on deeper realities in the society and seemed more prodigal, not caring for earnest living.
But now, just as Elijah must have become elated when his Servant on return from an errand to the top of Mount Carmel for the 7th time at end of an endless 3 years without a drop of rain in the land, lastly said: “a cloud as small as a man’s hand is rising from the Sea”.
Hopefully today, the Naga Society also seems to be raising precious few young sensible bloods, like delicate tender plants, pure and lovely, sprouting from minute seeds on the ground after a shower of rain at the approach of the spring season. Quite a few young bloods today unbelievably are considerably deep-observing and have sensibility equal to the evolving world around us.
The Naga Society needs to mark these Minds; they are more precious than marble Buildings or the many tired bloods in the State; they are the materials from which the future good of the State can come.
At the moment they appear timid, which is a good right thing; they would attain temperance, not carried away by verbosity. They would attain boldness, most importantly Courage, that comes out of Conviction; they would be able to discern the right from the wrong more and more; proper from the improper; have wisdom to comprehend the real from the ‘nakli’; understand mountain tops far above the cloud, the big from the low frivolous; have inward Humility than the superficial and develop the great humane sense of Equality.
They have the flexibility of Magnanimity but would not compromise a whit with the Evil. They aim to live simple and pure in the midst of their industrious plenty.
Those are the characters of Mind, Soul and Attitudes that would generate Peace, Prosperity, Greatness and Dignity for Nagaland.
I would love to live in that Nagaland: everyone would: Nagas would do well to know these young bloods the in full Naga Names, than a Joseph Puchuri or a Daniel Konyak or Issac Achumi.
The Angel said: “you shall call His name: ‘Yohoshuah’” –Iasus in Greek, in Roman: Jesus- (letter ‘J’ was developed only in the 16th century).
