The ‘I care' is essential for our most precious asset-‘our children'. To re-make our Naga world what we need is to re-build our children from the Delhi dependency syndrome. Mould the child constantly, with a fine tuned balance. Encourage the 'unique spark' of each child's individuality; a core area to expose the child's unlimited talent and potential to pinnacle heights and intertwining delicately with extraordinary traits of entrepreneurial relationships. Thus helping them to become successful motivators, to lead our Naga society to be job givers, not job seekers or slave of job providers. Promote "Work and Worship" culture among them that they become masters and owners in God’s plan.
Learning to solve our own problems by ourselves is the greatest challenge of the day. Therefore, realization of what they have, discipline to utilize the same with integrity is the key to our present crisis. The God given talent of sling-shot to David was not a big deal but practicing the sling-shot with all sincerity and recognizing the small talent with commitment and integrity won the favour of God which ultimately made him the King of Israel. Whether your child has one talent or five makes not much of a difference; the proper application of it only matters.
This 2018 is the year of the Lord's favour. Let our children know that they are meant to be masters, owners and job givers. We as parents must help them to excel in 'wise and courageous decision making' and 'risk taking abilities' for the successful achievement with proper evaluation and assessment of themselves. They must know who they are and who they are not, so as to activate the latent power in them. This will re-build, awaken and redeem our Naga society from all evils, corruptions, fratricidal killings, extortions, immorality and violence.
We are inheritors of a rich historical legacy built on hard work, honesty, integrity, hospitality, courage, simplicity from our forefathers. So can we, the present generation, plan and set goals for our future generations to solve economic, social and local problems by ourselves as our forefathers did? And overcome our weaknesses and survive as a people and a nation against all kinds of exploitation? The GenNext is too precious to be left half baked with only casual daily routine. A total transformation of a young mind into a strong confident leader treading the path of a successful entrepreneur to become a 'Job Giver' and not a 'Job Seeker' is needed. This is the desired Naga Solution of the day.
The terrible crisis of "unemployment" problem due to lack of self enterprise in Nagaland arises owing to the fact that parents as well as educational institutions inculcates job oriented education only and do not stress on self entrepreneurship, resulting in our children becoming "job seekers" instead of being job givers, masters and owners. In this context, I am not discouraging public employment through competitive examinations, rather, the GenNext should strive to become the best public servants delivering the goods that is expected of a public servant with utmost integrity and commitment to their people, which in itself is an enterprise.
In pursuance of such education, our children are sent to the various metros and even abroad and ultimately, to finance them, we are compelled to sell out our land to the corrupt rich. Thus, many renowned landlords and farmers have become almost landless or even landless and consequently, they too become jobless. Such cases can be seen in the fertile foothill belts of Dimapur and Peren districts in particular. To cite an instance, a village in Medziphema area has 150 households where only five own TRC fields today and likewise there are so many villages in Dimapur, Jalukie, and Peren area where such instances can be found. We as parents, by our own action, create a notion in our children that there is no life without a government job or they would not be able to get married unless one is employed in the government set up.
We talk of independence but this culture of government job dependency has brought us far too many appointments even when there is no vacancy or work in the departments. We thereby deceive others as well as ourselves in our comfort zone collecting salaries without work or office attendance which robs our dignity, self-respect, integrity, purpose of life, direction of God and pushes us towards a devalued community at large. Reportedly, in a certain department, if the entire office staff were to attend office on the same day, then the fenced office premises would not have enough standing space. Our identity, dignity, integrity and originality are much more important than just easy money. Where do we stand?
Seriously dwelling on the issue, it becomes our duty to help, guide and show leadership to GenNext so as to make them discover the latent potential in themselves. They are fully loaded with talents and well equipped by faith in God to pursue any profession of their choice. The failure to recognize their worth is the problem of the day. For instance, it was Moses' understanding of God's immense power and his unfaltering relationship with God that saved the Israelites in their crisis when they were caught between multitudes of Egyptian soldiers and the Red Sea. Let us carefully examine our lives. No one would solve our problems unless we play our part.
Our children are not created by God to be 'job seekers', they only need to recognize and activate dormant talents, dormant seeds or dormant quality in them. The giant has to be awakened, seeds watered and qualities nurtured. Then they will know the higher philosophy of being created by God in His own image and likeness. This inheritance is divinity in itself in today's complex world. Nagaland is not a landlocked state, it is the gateway to SE Asia. In the Global village, foreign merchandise goes to all over India via Mandalay-Tamu (Myanmar) and Moreh (Manipur). Nagaland is a land of untold opportunity and potentiality. We only need to do things within our reach sincerely with utmost integrity, then God will use us to do extraordinary things and it will work out miraculously beyond our expectation.
"There are no hopeless situations but only hopeless men. Hopeless people are our problem." The quality of life we need today is the degree and intensity to which a set of inherent characteristic of human character, physical, mental, emotional balance and value system fulfill and satisfy the achievement, esteem and self actualization needs of one self . “The greatest force in life is the hunger and search for the meaning of life”. It is our responsibility as parents, leaders and teachers to help the GenNext to utilize their full potential to be masters, owners, entrepreneurs and not slaves and job seekers. Casualness or procrastination has no place in this competitive world. "He sees your every step" and blesses you for being honest in small matters.
The past cannot be changed. The present and the future are in our hands. God is asking for what one has got. Let one find out what is available within reach. Genuine care can do miracles. The plethora of challenges we have evinced to harness our children's boundless energies, so as to empower them to create a benchmarking niche in this golden era of exponential economic development phase of our state is to freely discuss all matters with them and encourage them. The virtues that we need to encourage in our children are, 'Hard Work', 'Discipline', 'Integrity' and 'Consistency' so as to be masters, job givers to re-make our Nagaland.
