Being a Zomi means...

[Taang Sianpu]

Being a TRUE ZOMI is not about putting Prefixes or Suffixes in online identities (i.e, Email, Facebook and other online user names or IDs). Its not about being together in a team with only like-minded people or having a common ideology or worldview in a party/ organization. Its not the philosophical part nor external decoration of flags, logos, clothes, papers and symbols or even the name & identity they prefer to call themselves etc. ITS ALL ABOUT UNDERSTANDING THE TRUE MEANING OF BLOOD AND LISTENING TO THE VOICE OF ITS CALL (THE INNER BEING).

It is never the Zomi culture or the Zomi way to ban, exclude, expel, abandon your own brother in a family regardless of how much stupid, useless or different (in terms of belief, worldview, ideological & political preferences etc.) he might be. If we were born Burmese, YES, we can ban, reject, abandon or exclude from being a family member and advertise on newspaper if they do not behave well especially when they against the parents or other siblings. However, the Lord God Almighty created us and made us born into a Zomi family and we should treasure that gift. We should respect the call and we should behave according the Zomi culture.

Sometimes our own brothers might rebel against us or our parents but they are still our very own and we can't replace them with anyone else in the world! Being true to Zomi is beyond the forms and fames, norms and names, faiths and beliefs. After all, loving someone is about being inclusive, not otherwise... If one claims to be a Zomi and true to the meaning of it, one must walk beyond all these... Only then can we understand the true meaning of being a Zomi