Aspiration
has become a disease with the fact that cure is within reach.
Many
a times when I dreamt of why I didn’t succeed (as I thought), I was so close to
success that I always missed it by a niche. I am sure that the consequences
made me to feel that I better go back to day one (of mydream). The memories and
souvenir from those occasions are irrevocable.
Of
late, I came to know who C.N.R.Rao (Just because of Sachin) is. He is one of
those with Sachin who is going share the podium to get the highest civilian
award, Bharat Ratna. I also read an article about “Anil Gurav” (who was called
as ‘Viv Richards’ of Mumbai team) who was brought up in the same epoch of
S.R.Tendulkar. It was so painful (to have his career mutilated) that I thought
to pen down my thoughts of how we can approach life. Somewhere I felt that this
would take me back to my dreams, bring me to a stage where I could be close to
that success that I don’t smell but feel it.
How
many of those days (from our memory), can we say that we lived how
we ‘planned’? I am sure that there is one such mundane habit which blindfolds our
senses from doing it. I always wanted to be a good writer, reader, painter,
sportsman, engineer, executive and what not. In the span of time provided, is
it possible? Let us see with the below calculation (hope I don't go crazy),
“Sachin
having played 200 Test and 463 ODI directly converts to 1463 days which says
that it is approximately 4 years (continuously) he had been on the ground
(with nation attention). These 4 years reflects the D-Day of his entire 24 years
career. To make
my math simpler I would say that he dedicated 4 years on ground and 20 years on
homework. Let us add another 5 years (from his age 11 to age 16) to this 20
years, making it 25 years. Interestingly this converts to 1 year on Ground to 6
years (approximately) of dedicated effort. It is this 6 times effort that gave
him all the name and fame.”
If
I had performed one fifth of such math (which I did above) I could have been in
heights which I might have never imagined.
The
words – ‘I woke up at 6:50 a.m. in the morning for my practice. My body clock
woke me up to realize that Cricket is no more part of my life’ still pokes and
inspires me.
Even if we are to work
smart with just half that effort it would give us an edge in our career and
society. Until then today is going be ‘Yet another day’.
