Sachin & Us
Us......
and the Sachin.....
Recall those instances when you failed an
exam! How many people show you their bad faces… your classmates, friends, and
relatives?
Recall when you failed to get the IITs or
IIMs and dirt of curse shame it brought for you.
Imagine those moments when you failed to get
a visa stamped this quarter…, you missed a promotion almost due and certain…
How did it feel when your dad used to say in
your early twenties that you are good for nothing…..and now your boss tells you
the same...?
You doubt at yourself based on the others
assumption about you. View’s of the people, who doesn’t matter a dime in your
life, makes you feel low. Their criticism moderates your opinion about
yourself! Those who back bite you or make fun of you are the reason you feel
happy or sad. Because of others… you say ‘I am feeling low today’. Worst is,
this happens to you almost daily!!!
Now here’s a man stands on the third man
boundary of the cricket ground (usually). When he bats he focuses only on the ball
coming out of the bowler’s hand and nothing else… no planning, no regret and no
future concern. Many a times India loses the match even when he has done everything
right. Whenever his wicket falls, he keeps his head down and leaves the field.
He has seen such failures for 22 years now. Not only he!! But his classmates,
relatives, friends and the whole world have seen these failures since he began
batting. We are too immature to even imagine what goes inside his mind and
heart while walking towards the pavilion. We would have fainted off!
Many people, while watching him batting from
any TV set at any street shop, tries to explain the mistake he did in the last
ball. They explain what could have been done by him on that particular ball as
if they could have been super-Sachin if only they could have got the opportunity.
I laugh at their utter nonsense but actually sometimes even I do so.
True, he has the ability. He single handedly
lifts up the mood of the entire nation. He has been an inspiration to rise
above our mediocrity. His dedication and metal strength is unparallel.
On other side, we are the people, who are
mediocre in our own lives, who just scoff at others to create cheap fun. Who
have lived in a small pot for decades and believe that we have seen the oceans.
Think about the man ‘Sachin’. He is 37, has
been playing almost nonstop for 22 years. The way he was running and diving
around the field at this age can puts 22 year olds young boy on shame. The way
he played the best openings of the world… were all breathtaking. He just keeps
getting better every time he walks in to the ground. It’s not for nothing that
people call him GOD.
We, on the other hand, struggle to keep our
monotonous lives straight. A life that affects hardly any big number of people…
Imagine! what would be the magnitude of the inner struggle of Sachin, the pain
both mental and physical, tears that would have frozen with time, knees and
ankles and every other joint in the body that is either bandaged or needs to be
attended to every night, eyes that don’t sleep before a big game, bats that
have scored 99 international tons and still see expectations from a lot more than
a billion people of the world.
And he just converts those expectations into
reality.
In a country where cricket is not just a game
and Sachin is not just a sportsman. I wonder a lot of his admirers do not want
to learn from him even a little…. i.e. in order to make a Tajmahal, one just
have visualize the Taj and plan for the bricks and stones it will take to be
built. Rest everything will start following their dreams...
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