Sufficiency vs. ambition – when "enough" is a moving target.

This warning is a recurring theme in traditional oral stories, such as the Kannaba Wari Khara (Few Useful Stories), which are collections of folktales passed down through generations in Manipur. In these stories, animal characters, like a leader of crows named Laghupatan, often serve as models of wisdom and strategy. After a hunter’s net fails to catch the crows, a flock of pigeons gets trapped. Yet, through collective intelligence and coordinated action, the pigeons escape by flying away together with the net. The ineffective hunter is left with nothing, perfectly embodying the "Etei Na Thu Naba Wari" approach to his work—his method was flawed from the start, leading to wasted effort and a lost tool.