Sports is one of many ways we try to calm our minds. We relax amidst chaos. For us Indian millennials, cricket is something that we grew up watching. We always analyse who would win the match and sitting before our TV screens we'd listen to our fathers' say 'Arrey! He should have played defence', as if giving some advice from here would help. Personally, I never understood cricket and still I don't. I don't know what the positions in the field are or what's the difference between a leg spinner and off-spinner. To be honest, I haven't heard any of these terms until I was 20. I started following cricket(as in the final score with highlights) in the past couple of years. Everyone I have watched it with have always commented on the style of batting, bowling or fielding. The fascination of the whole game, to me, lies with the slow-motion ball movement where the decision has to be made, whether it's an edge and the batsman is caught behind the wicket to declare the batsman is out. All of this motion happens in a split second and we rewind and forward the motion of the ball to make that decision. It is that instantaneous decision made by the batsman decides what his fate is. This scenario applies to us most of the times. That split second decision that we make, be it spilling someone else's secret out of spite or uttering something harsh or anything else once done that cannot be undone decides how our future is going to be. When we analyse what's gone wrong, when everything else you have been doing right, that zoomed in slow-motion rewind of events would show you where you have actually been wrong and now there's nothing you could do to change it now. Of course, you can't anticipate such moments, but just be ready to trust what your gut/heart (or whatever it's called) says, the voice from deep within. It can never be wrong.
P.S. All is well that ends well!
Bon Nuit!
S.
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