Final over remaining, 9 runs required and 1 wicket left. Klusner thrashed first two balls of the Fleming’s over to boundary needing only 1 run from 4 deliveries to reach the finals. It wouldn’t require an expert to know what I am talking about. Yes, 1999 cricket world cup semi-finals. But, alas South Africa lost the match, even though the match was tied (due to stupid Super-6 system, where Australia defeated SA).
How they must have felt. Well, I can certainly tell. They must have felt like…. Aaaaaarrrggghh, wanting to shout as loud as one can!!!.... breaking the wall with one punch (now I understood why hero in a movie always does that)!!!…. run madly, as fast as one can, with a bull’s rage (even red flag is not required)!!!…. like what is my fault?? Why me always!!!
Despite a good interview (at the great SP Jain Mumbai) I was thrown out in the first round. When we came out of the interview hall (results were not out yet) two girls (Preeti and Anju) who were interviewed with me said, you were good…you will get through (Preeti was simply awesome…I would have loved to be with her in SP Jain :-( ) and I was like a modest guy.. “everyone was good..it looks difficult to eliminate any one of us..i don’t know how will panelists decide” (I think the interview panelists overheard me saying this ;-) ).
Shocked after the results for some half an hour, I called up home to convey the news. Chunnu (my younger sister) picked up the phone. After conveying the news she says “You were destined to wait for one year…what can be done, don’t worry” (hmmmm the girl has grown up…even she is consoling…that was a good way, felt a little relived). Told about this to other important friends and they were like “You are destined to go abroad”….. “Chill…all these things keep happening…we shouldn’t get tensed”.
Well, I boarded the cab and while coming back to pune millions of thoughts ran in my mind. This isn’t any new thing for me by the way, Mumbai to Pune expressway has witnessed many such melodramatically poignant feelings till now (barring just one incident when I got 710 in GMAT).
The poor “destiny” is the only culprit in 99% of the failures in 99% of people’s life. If the fault is not mine then who is responsible for the failure. Is it destiny?
If Mr. Edison had thought so every time then he would not have waited to make 10,000 mistakes before inventing the bulb.Another great Mr. Sunil Gavsaker in an interview once said to inspire the first class cricketers, who despite their good performances were not able to make into playing 11 for India…“If you knock on the doors of selectors and they don’t listen to you then don’t knock the door break the door (with your performances, of course :-) ) ”.
Probably only 1% of the people feel it is not destiny’s fault. That is why only 1% of people don’t just knock on the door, they break the door and get their name written in the list of greats.
Well Mr. Gavasker I just hope I will break the door before breaking Mr. Edison’s record.
