Beginning of Life in the UK : Chapter 03 :: Download
Dr Mohendra Irengbam *
BMA Annual Conference in Bournemouth 1989. Author (2nd from left) as BMA President of Bradford City. With BMA Chairman Dr John Marks & wife.
Part 03
Change is also in the nature of evolution through natural selection. Change is also constant in mechanical engineering especially with the use of computers. When I bought my first Mercedes Benz car, I went for a test drive. It was like floating in the cloud, after the experience of driving all those cheaper cars. What a change it was. But that comfort lasted only a few years. The novelty soon wore off as newer model Mercedes with better insulations from undulations in the road surface, came into the market.
Likewise, my good life in Imphal in the mid- 1960s began to an end. I got myself transferred to Churachandpur. Meanwhile, with the uncertainty of my professional future, I was also gravitating towards another inner turmoil, which I carried inside that no one could see. “To be or not to be”, asked Hamlet to himself about his existence. ‘To marry or not to marry now’ was the question I asked myself.
I have been bitten by true love once as a young man. I read Shakespeare who wrote: ‘The course of true love did never run smooth’, said Lysander to Hermia in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’. I don’t think the implication has changed much in the past 457 years since the birth of Shakespeare. I learnt it the hard way and not from reading Shakespeare.
I learnt it from experience that any long relationship will have its ups and downs as circumstances in life change. Many things come out of your control. An idiomatic truth that I found out at my peril. It is only interesting when I look back to it. There are positive sides to such breakdowns though. It is good to remember that such a loss might leave space again for other good things to happen. “Love is an ideal thing; marriage is a real thing (Goethe). I will talk about it later.
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