‘YES WE CAN'

- Andrew Fanai-

Kum 1972 daih tawh khan United Farm Workers (UFW) ho chuan an hotupa Cesar Chavez-a hovin Phoenix, Arizona ah ni 24 chhung chawnghei-in America sorkar in Farming chungchanga a policy an protest a; chuta an auhla (slogan) chu "Sí se puede" (Spanish for "Yes, it can be done") tih a ni. 2008 a Democrats US Presidential candidate Barak Obama chutih laia Senator chuan New Hampshire Democratic Primary Election-ah chuan he thupui zul hian ‘Yes we can’ (Lehlin kher pawh a tul lem em ni?) slogan chu a rawn phawrh (launched) veleh ta a. America ram hian ‘CHANGE’ a mamawh a, chu chu kan thlen tir thei a ni (Yes we can), tiin a rawn au chhuak ta a ni. Obama hian a Presidential campaign chhung zawng khan a secondary slogan ah a hmang anih kha. Chu slogan hmang chuan February 2, 2008 chuan Black Eyed Peas member will.i.am chuan Dipdive.com leh Youtube ah ‘Yes We can’ (We can ‘08) music video pawh chu a rawn released ve leh ta bawk a. Bob Dylan fapa Jesse Dylan’n rawn produced sakin first-ever Emmy Award for Best New Approaches in Daytime Entertainment a rawn hlawh chhuak ta hial anih kha.

Vawiinah chuan English thufing ‘Engmah hi theih loh a lo awm love” (Nothing is impossible) chu ‘A theih loh ti ti chu an daw duai’ (Impossible is nothing) hian a rawn thlak ta daih a. ‘Ka thei ani’, Yes We Can kan ti dawn ani. Pathianin Chakna, theihna (Potential), damna, finna, talent, remhriatna (creativity) min pe a, ka thei lovang hei hi chu(h)…ti a thalaite kan tlanchhe thin ka hmuh hian ka rilru a na thin. Vawiinah hian he editor ziakfung ka kuta dah anih ruala ka rilru-a lut hmasa ber chu Rahsiveng thalaite hi he chanchinbu hmang hian engtinnge Thupui-bulfuk (Principles-lehlin pawh a har hle mai- hmakhawthlir te pawh ti ila, goals, visions, dreams etc.) nei tura kan chawhthawh (inspired) ang a, chu kan thupui-bulfuk chu hlenchhuak turin ‘Yes we can’…tih auhla hi kan chemkawm atana inhmantir hi kumin a ka vision a ni.

Thalai tam tak te hi chuan naktuk pawh hi kan thlir pha meuh awm love, kan tal talin kan tal ve mawp mawp a, kan lum lumin kan lum a, kan ei ve leh teuh a, ‘thawhchhuah nei lo ei thla duak’ tih zawng zawng kan neih zova, a fuh lo a ni. ‘Tihtur neih loh hi Setana hmanraw tha ber a ni’ (Idleness is the devil’s workshop) tiin sap thufing chuan a sawi a. Tihtur ka neih lohna chhan chu hmathlir(dreams & visions) ka nei miau lova, thupui-bulfuk (principles) ka nei lova, ‘Cest la vie’ (This is life- ka nun alawm) tiin chapo takin neih nei chuang si lovin midang chanchin kan sawi peih em em a, ‘Future a bright lo em mai’.

William Carey-a, Khawvel missionary ropui ber a chhal ngam (Pioneer of Modern Missionary Movement) chuan a thupui atan ‘Pathian tan thil ropui tak tih tum la, a hnen atangin thil ropui beisei rawh’ (Attempt great things for God and Expect great things from Him) tih chu a nun khalhtu atan a hmang tlat a, India ram tana a thilpek (education, social reforms, agriculture, printing, translation etc) tluka hlu hi tuman India a la pe ngai lo an ti hial a ni. Beidawnna ruam ah, thihna thlan thim atang pawhin ‘Yes I can’, a ti tlat a, hetiang hlawhtlinna hi a tawpah chuan a khum ta hial a nih kha.

Thalai Kristiante ngat phei hi chu Paula hian min cho(challenge) nasa hle in ka hre thin, ‘Min tichaktu Krista-ah chuan engkim ka ti thei ani’ an ti thlawt mai a (I can do- a ti mai lova- all things a ti tawp mai a ni). Mihring tak pawha miin ‘ka thei ani’ an tih ngam chuan Krista ah chuan engmah hi huphurhawm a lo awm love. Chuvangin, thalaite’n Krista kan zuina kawngah tum mumal (Principles) nei ila, kan zirna kawngah, kan thiltih engkimah, kan hnathawhnaah thupuibulfuk nei ila, BRTF hovin ‘We dreams, we envisions and everyone enjoys’ an tih thin ang leh Martin Luther King Jr. in “I have a dream” a ti ang hian tum mumal neiin chumi chauh chu tinzawn (focus) ta ila. Kan tum tihlawhtling tur hian Krista-ah chuan ‘Kan hneh dawn ani, kan ti thei dawn ani ‘Yes we can’ tih vawng tlatin hmatiang in sawn dawn teh ang.