http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/current/story/375341.html - Read this article of Ian Chappel in cricinfo. Its about continuing with Dhoni as the captain for the rest of the ongoing Ind Vs Aus test series. As a whole, the article sounded reasonably well. But there is an anology at the end of the article that made me to post this article here. I haven't come across such an anology so far. Here is the excerpt of that anology from the actual article.
"It has been said that good captaincy is like pornography - it's hard to define but you know it when you see it. Usually when you do see it, a victory soon follows and after Dhoni's great performance at Mohali, it might be the right time to ask Healy if he still thinks good captaincy doesn't affect the result of a match."
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Thursday, October 23, 2008
As we grow up . . .
Recently I read an article about Diwali by Dr. Sukisivam. It was part of his regular "Intha naal iniya naal" program. He speaks about how human mind, especially its expectations changes as one grows. A perfect example quoted by Dr.Suki follows here. New dresses and crackers for diwali was an exhilarating factor to us when we were kids. Simple birthday gift such as a pen, shoe etc... used to make us feel good. But even if we get a brand new apparels nowadays, does that still brings the same level of happiness to us now? Certainly, it doesn't. Why? Is it because that we have grown? Have we lost anything? All such questions can be answered in one word. Mind, period. The thing that we wanted to achieve, that we felt sad for not to achieve that, does not tastes sweet when we actually achieve that. He carries his article further with some more short stories and ends on a perfect note to say "intha naal mattum alla.. varudathil entha naalum Deepavali naal than" (not only this day but every day will be a Diwali).
This article led my mind to another thought related to the above topic. I strongly feel that it is prevalent among many of us nowadays. I heard from my friends and friends of friends who are doing Masters in US that many of them had problems with their fellow roommates. I would say 'frequency mismatch' would be a better fit here than the word 'problems'. Living with friends is not new to us. When we moved to a new middle school or high school, especially into hostel we almost never had any issues in acclimatizing with the new environment. There might be few differences here and there. But they would get sorted out sooner or later. In my personal life, when I entered into my undergraduation, 35/40 guys were hostelers and geographic distribution was also pretty good. Initially, we were divided into groups in the first year. But that split was just because lack of interaction between us as we were living with other department guys in our first year. But the next three years was simply awesome. Everyone had their own style and way of living but we were united at all circumstances. When it is possible to live amicably with 40 persons, why do we find lot of differences in living with just 4 people now? Our self expectations and expecatations on others now is far lesser than what it was in our college and school days. All the bonding and friendship in our undergraduation happened on its own. We didn't expect anything from our fellow mates expect friendship. But now? As we grow up, the relationship with strangers goes more professionally than friendly. The persons with whom we don't feel comfortable now might had been comfortable few years back and vice versa. How many life time friendships in this world starts from our professional life? Obviously, a friendship which blossoms from childhood or adulthood lasts longer than that starts from our professional life. I intentionally used the word 'blossoms' in the last statement as I felt the need to stress the beauty and happiness in the former one. Our personal likes and dislikes grow exponentially as we grow. But will that keep our happiness as same forever? Sounds like no to me.
After all, we start our life as a kid and end our life as grown up kid. We need to be pampered both in our childhood and in our dotage. Thats why dotage time is rightly referred as a second childhood. Lets live the intermediate period also as childish as possible and enjoy our life! (not literal childish of course :) )
This article led my mind to another thought related to the above topic. I strongly feel that it is prevalent among many of us nowadays. I heard from my friends and friends of friends who are doing Masters in US that many of them had problems with their fellow roommates. I would say 'frequency mismatch' would be a better fit here than the word 'problems'. Living with friends is not new to us. When we moved to a new middle school or high school, especially into hostel we almost never had any issues in acclimatizing with the new environment. There might be few differences here and there. But they would get sorted out sooner or later. In my personal life, when I entered into my undergraduation, 35/40 guys were hostelers and geographic distribution was also pretty good. Initially, we were divided into groups in the first year. But that split was just because lack of interaction between us as we were living with other department guys in our first year. But the next three years was simply awesome. Everyone had their own style and way of living but we were united at all circumstances. When it is possible to live amicably with 40 persons, why do we find lot of differences in living with just 4 people now? Our self expectations and expecatations on others now is far lesser than what it was in our college and school days. All the bonding and friendship in our undergraduation happened on its own. We didn't expect anything from our fellow mates expect friendship. But now? As we grow up, the relationship with strangers goes more professionally than friendly. The persons with whom we don't feel comfortable now might had been comfortable few years back and vice versa. How many life time friendships in this world starts from our professional life? Obviously, a friendship which blossoms from childhood or adulthood lasts longer than that starts from our professional life. I intentionally used the word 'blossoms' in the last statement as I felt the need to stress the beauty and happiness in the former one. Our personal likes and dislikes grow exponentially as we grow. But will that keep our happiness as same forever? Sounds like no to me.
After all, we start our life as a kid and end our life as grown up kid. We need to be pampered both in our childhood and in our dotage. Thats why dotage time is rightly referred as a second childhood. Lets live the intermediate period also as childish as possible and enjoy our life! (not literal childish of course :) )
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