Leader Writer: Wangkheimayum Bhupendra Singh
A society and its people need inspiration to grow and cultivate a sense of oneness. The ability to draw inspiration from one another without any egotism and hesitation would draw the persons involved closer and help develop society. However, in a society full of mistrust and where every other incident bemoans of allegations and counter allegations, we as a society surely do not have many avenues to draw our inspiration from. Trust among the people should be treated with utmost importance for our own survival and growth as a collective society. Inspiration would naturally come out if we allow trust to grow amongst us and encourage the desire to see our fellow beings inspired and succeed. While our society has its fair share of inspirational source in all fields including arts, culture, history and games to name a few, if we look at the present context, we have been certainly deprived ourselves of its benefits. As a society, we are in such a stage that we could be easily herded around by some towards wrongly interpreted goals. We have been made accustomed to the lament of desires for insubstantial or selfish dividends, that we are unable to consider the wishes of the others. Unless we act together and drive out the divide wedged amongst us, our own survival could become threathened.
At present, we have before us certain issues that could snowball into major cause of mistrust and create wedges in the friendship amongst the different communities. Even as the issue of a person from the minority community being killed by an alleged mob was yet to settle down, another trucker was killed by armed militants along the New Cachar Road and in between there is also the issue of Alice Kamei. Manipur, whether we like it or not is treading on real thin ice at present and this is the time when people should exemplify the bonds of friendship and help one another find the source of inspiration. This is when one treads the path as carefully as one can as even a small issue can trigger off the unimaginable. Instead of dictating one’s own sets of demands and interest upon the others, a more suitable plan of action could be to gain the support from the others and confront it in a collective manner.
The growth or maturation of a society as such depends largely, if not solely, on one’s capacity to draw inspiration from one another and catapult one’s life though with a collective effort. The key is to boost success in the lives of each of the individuals to cultivate the growth of society. And for its success, a source of inspiration is very much compulsory. While the desire to succeed as an individual should be cultivated, it should not be mistaken for one’s growth at the expense of others. We are however witnessing groups of people bemoaning every action of others and complaining about being left out from the scheme of things. The key should be equal participation of all and drawing inspiration from one another.
To sum it all, individual success clubbed with the desire to inspire others lead to growth of the society and for that, the individuals need to be inspired; inspired, so as to be able to bring out the best in oneself. For inspirations to bud out and for the society to grow, a peaceful and serene environment is needed. Romantic poets drew their inspiration from the idea utopia, childhood innocence and from nature. Persy Bysshe Shelly is said to have wrote his famous ‘Ode to the West wind’ in the woods on the outskirts of Arno near Florence while drawing inspiration from the winds. While our society has in abundance such inspirational source for the taking if we dare to look beyond our cocooned life or mind, our society lacks the source of moral inspiration. Certainly the time has come for us all to shed all inhibitions and egoism and inspire and be inspired with one another for a better tomorrow.