Why do I love you so much.. why is it that I cant miss a match when I have the raw materials to see it..At times i do not understand. And that time is always the time of introspection. Book in hand, and TV right infront of eyes...each and every IPL match, bang in the middle of exams..Ind Aus series right at semester end..
Why do I open up Cricinfo all day, and just read Mr. Alter and Kanishka Balachandran and George Binoy and dont-know-who-else give a ball by ball report of each match...yes each match..even Zimbabwe v/s Bangladesh!! Does the game actually influence my life,or my love for you stem from how my life is..
Life is so much like a Cricket game..ur family,ur friends are all ur team, ur staff..ur own...all ur problems, challenges are like an opponent constantly in your face..It seemed like when India played Australia a few years ago..No matter what we did, we couldnt win. They were constantly at us, attacking us ruthlessly. There was no where to go, yet you knew you had to move on. It had turned boring for everyone. The leaders and the followers..
And now everything has taken an amazing,if not unbelievable, turnaround..Ones who ruled the roost, are the ones bein pushed to the walls..Doesnt all this sound too familiar??
A life is just a pitch..u r too perform on that, as a batsman or a bowler or as a fielder supporting someone else's role in life..All my life I played on a batting paradise. I cut, I pulled..scored loadz, achieved what I set out to. But it has all changed..Now I play at a pitch that bites, that jumps..thats a minefield..Nothing is easy, every run is at a premium..But the message is clear- Perform or Perish..every good shot i play has gone to a fielder..every good ball I have bowled has beat the bat, sometimes it has taken the edge just to fall tantalisingly close..
A test match..every day u wake up to play a new day of ur life, and everyday u play to make urself stronger and erase the mistakes of past..Some days u will lose, and some days u will win..The result is important, how u play it is even more significant..You suffer blows, u suffer abuses, but something waits ahead..Or as Paulo Coelho put it, ur destiny waits for you somewhere..But you are not in this alone..U need someone..I have stayed put, but my partners have kept falling just to leave me alone to take my life to the winning target. But I am sure i will find someone one who will form that winning partnership with me, to lead to where I belong..Looking for that someone :)
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