The religion called Cricket!!

Let me start with a disclaimer. I'm not a major cricket fan. I mean that i'm not the type to watch a cricket match bunking college ( or office!!), I am extremely unlikely to watch anEngland-Australia World Cup final and I'm definitely not going to be caught even looking at the score of a Zimbabwe-Bangladesh Test match!

But there is something in the magnetism of the moment which pulls you in when either the match is of historic importance!! ( like the India Pakistan semi final which India won!! That we totally flunked the final was almost irrelevant!! :D) or when we are soooo in the flow that it's a pleasure to watch the perfection!! ( Like the India England series now!! ). There is always a joy in watching everything go right! Like the ideal day when everything is on time and is going your way!! ( which sadly never happens).

I'm sitting and watching India bat in a series they've already won, watching a match halfway through and actually having the confidence that this one too is in our kitty!! ( A luxury which Indians very rarely have!! We're known for losing games from every conceivable winning position!!).

Maybe I should stop my blog!! From the time i've started writing, we've actually lost 3 wickets!! 2 on back to back balls!! ( And the wickets of the well settled Sehwag and Yuvi, the player of the season).

But yet, it has been a really refreshing experience to see an Indian team play this way and usually when they say that sports represents life, one has always dreaded the fact that it might be true!! Whereas seeing the Indian team today, we're earnestly wishing it is!!

And of course the legends like Sachin make you change the way you look at not just the game, but at yourself and life itself!! What he tells you is sports is beyond life!! What you do in life ( which is basically whacking a piece of leather with a wooden stick!!) doesn't matter. What matters is how you do it! ( The fact that he is soo timid in real life is a whole another story).

All I can say is that seeing a resurgent Indian team at a time when India is much touted as being resurgent economically is a good sign to see. :)

Life looks good overall. :) (Fingers crossed!)

Finis

I want to sell my Ferrari!!

Now bofore you write in asking me about the model, year and my asking price, I haven't got one!! I've just become the biggest fan of "The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari" ( I'm sure Terry Pratchett will have a lot to say about the Capital first letters. :)) ). An amazing book which I strongly recommend to all ( even before i've started practicing anything from the book!! So obviously use your own brains when you're reading it, but then you should be using your brains anyways!!).

Does give a more positive outlook to life and there have been minute improvements in mine. So there. Gotta rush off, but realised that all my blogs are when i'm down, so decided to do ( an albeit extremely short) one when i'm in the ups. :)

Ensoi

Vivek