My Memories of Imphal From 1941 : Chapter 18 :: Download
Dr Mohendra Irengbam *
Author and jeep 1964, assembled in 1948 from the WWII salvage depots.
Unthinkable before Japanlan
Part 18
‘Living Dangerously’
Drastic changes in Meitei Society
Post Japan Lan
I have borrowed the famous phrase 'Living dangerously' for myself, from the German philosopher Nietzsche (1844-1900). He challenges us to live dangerously. He says this is the secret to finding fulfilment in life.
Perhaps, this is true in my case, though I use the phrase with a sense of levity. It may sound like I was an adventurous person going out on a limb. Hardly. I was just foolhardy, and like everybody else, I had to have attitude as I grew up. Often, I lucked it out.
Now that I am getting too long in the tooth, I have come to realise that I did have an attitude - a confrontational one that was far from being pleasant.
I had developed it when I was about 14 years of age. It was my obduracy. Unwilling to change my stance without good reasons. As I had developed it so early, it must have been an inherited disposition. My father was not aware of this attitude at about this age and thus, I was often at the receiving end of his punishment. As my mother put it: "Your father is much stronger than you." Later, he did come to know about it.
I had also acquired another demeanour which I had picked up from experience. It was that I was not to be bullied and that I was no more to be timid. In the years to come, this outlook set me off to live 'dangerously'. By dangerously I mean, I tried to be man enough to dare. By the age of 15 or 16, I began to sail close to the wind. Soon I became confrontational and often went the whole hog to a brawl of all sorts.
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