Abhinav Bindra's gold medal is the best gift ever to this country on the eve of the Independance Day.Bindra's achievement engendered the desires in our mind and soul and we expected some more from others. His victory overshadowed the pain inflicted on us by the dismal performance of the Indian cricket team in the test series against Sri Lanka.India won 2 more medals in the olympics which totalled to 3.Perhaps India's olympics achievement helped Team India , a crouching tiger, to bounce back to grab the one day series.Even after the victory the expectation never seems to get fulfilled in some minds. Some are not satisfied with the 3-2 series win.They expected it to be 4-1 or 5-0 or why not the test series victory which we lost 1-2 to Sri Lanka. Such comments make me remember some lines which my English tutor gave us while preparing some notes for the chapter 'The Happy Prince'(about 11 years ago).From my memory I can only remember 'A man is never satisfied with what he has.He wants more and more.....'.Why dont we just enjoy the victory which counts at the end of the day? Be it a 1 run victory or a 10 wicket win , it is a victory which pleases us. Dhoni's experiment with the youth in the team tested positive.He showed that we have a pool of players who can come up in need of a replacement and can deliver the expected performance and so they did. So inspite of starving for more victory let us have a positive outlook.What should stay in our minds is the victory and not how we won it. Or else we should say 'It's ok.We lost 2 matches. We only gave them a chance to enliven the spectators'. Only then we can pacify our desires.
Sunday, September 7, 2008
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