"Yet another day"

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’.