MANIPUR-my country,my land

Manipur is my homeland.I am a manipuri lad.God has blessed me.This small yet picturesque land between the hills is indeed one of the heavenly abode that one always wish for.Whenever I think of my birthplace,I always remember the poem of Ralph Waldo Emerson,"A Nation's Strength".This poem makes you think on the line of patroitism as well as self discipline.Patroitism must not be confused with chauvinism..which takes many forms like linguistic,religious,regional.Patroitism is above all this.It means the honesty and dedication that an individual can put forth for the rise of his land and no where does it involve selfishness and jealousy,because everything takes time to grow and one has to be patient enough.We cannot build a nation in a fortnight.

A NATION'S STRENGTH

Ralph Waldo Emerson
What makes a nation's pillars high

And it's foundations strong?

What makes it mighty to defy

The foes that round it throng?

It is not gold.

Its kingdoms grand

Go down in battle shock;

Its shafts are laid on sinking sand,

Not on abiding rock.

Is it the sword?

Ask the red dust

Of empires passed away;

The blood has turned their stones to rust,

Their glory to decay.And is it pride?

Ah, that bright crown

Has seemed to nations sweet;

But God has struck its luster down

In ashes at his feet.

Not gold but only men can make

A people great and strong;

Men who for truth and honor's sake

Stand fast and suffer long.

Brave men who work while others sleep,

Who dare while others fly...

They build a nation's pillars deep

And lift them to the sky.

Its worth mentioning here,the Loktak lake for its breathtaking beauty.The location of the lake is in symphony and has deeper meaning considering that it is in the valley surrounded by all the hills that signifies the vastness and serenity of the place.

Manipuri Dance is of various forms and each style is unique to depict the devotion and grace.

de ja vu

The illusion of having already experienced something actually being experienced for the first time.An impression of having seen or experienced something before.....de ja vu..leaving all other projections...i would like to take the path from the realms of reality...after all, Time doesn't exist and the relation between space and time make us remember that famous scientist Albert...What i want to tell you is that if have the above feelings of seeing things beforehand...then it is a gift for you to use it nobody has the ability and you must not undermine urself,rather you must consider urself more gifted than others...as I say this I remember the movie series of final destination....I don't beleive in that.
For me,the present is more important than the future which I have never seen.Though change is the only constant but once in a while,the mind plays trick with me that I have a feeling of seeing things in my dreams or somewhere which are bound to happen..though the details may be confussing but I am sure that I have seen that sometime before.Everyone feels this way..its just we don't consider it important to remember or discuss for that matter.