American President Elect Barrack Obama has inspired people the world over to believe in his campaign anthem of Change. The recent Mumbai Attack roused the people of India asking for change in the administration set-up and heads have started rolling. Now to my point; can we too, in Manipur, believe in that change?
Now to be honest, most of us don’t believe Manipur can actually change, and for change to happen, we need to believe in. But this Christmas, against all odds, I’ll be praying for a little change, a tiny little change as a gift. And, that tiny little change I’ll be asking as a gift will be –taking responsibility.
Taking responsibility –not for the failure of the state, the system, or as such, but towards our own job, and that’s not too much to ask. If each one of us do our job –the job for which the government paid us, it’s not much of a change, but the end result will be a big change.
The first step towards change is for us to realize and hold ourselves responsible for what and where we are in now. But as I said earlier, you have been paid and you lived on that salary, so why not simply do the works that you are suppose to do. No one expect you to go the extra mile even though we would appreciate if there’s any one dedicated enough for that.
Teachers to teach students in the school where they are posted, doctors/nurses to nurse patients in the hospital/PHC where they are posted, electrician, postmen, etc, should all do the work that they are paid for –that’s all I asked.
When old age pension actually benefit the old, when mid-day meals are actually a meal, when all government welfare funds are utilized for the real target; that will be the day when my little Christmas wish will be fulfilled.
How difficult that could be, and that even got nothing to do with change. But that’s the change I’m asking for, and hopefully each one of us is inspired enough. And this Christmas, let’s introspect on the bigger change, the change that inspired people all over the world, and realize that we too are part of the world and we too can change.
Now to be honest, most of us don’t believe Manipur can actually change, and for change to happen, we need to believe in. But this Christmas, against all odds, I’ll be praying for a little change, a tiny little change as a gift. And, that tiny little change I’ll be asking as a gift will be –taking responsibility.
Taking responsibility –not for the failure of the state, the system, or as such, but towards our own job, and that’s not too much to ask. If each one of us do our job –the job for which the government paid us, it’s not much of a change, but the end result will be a big change.
The first step towards change is for us to realize and hold ourselves responsible for what and where we are in now. But as I said earlier, you have been paid and you lived on that salary, so why not simply do the works that you are suppose to do. No one expect you to go the extra mile even though we would appreciate if there’s any one dedicated enough for that.
Teachers to teach students in the school where they are posted, doctors/nurses to nurse patients in the hospital/PHC where they are posted, electrician, postmen, etc, should all do the work that they are paid for –that’s all I asked.
When old age pension actually benefit the old, when mid-day meals are actually a meal, when all government welfare funds are utilized for the real target; that will be the day when my little Christmas wish will be fulfilled.
How difficult that could be, and that even got nothing to do with change. But that’s the change I’m asking for, and hopefully each one of us is inspired enough. And this Christmas, let’s introspect on the bigger change, the change that inspired people all over the world, and realize that we too are part of the world and we too can change.
