Change

Ok.....so my last few posts have been preachy, sad and well kinda boring. So i have promised myself not to write sad stuff again(at least for a while).

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Hope!
This word controls our lives more than anything else. We breathe every second hoping it wouldn't be our last. We wake up everyday hoping that it would better than yesterday. we spend all our lives hoping to have a better one. Even the most hardcore cynic is driven by hope.
Maybe it's our belief that we are "UNTOUCHABLE" or our survival instincts, but hope is ever present. Our every action is rife with optimism and hope at some level. We just never stop to think about it.

I know someone who is sure that he is a cynic. For him it is an indisputable fact. Sometimes I thought he revels in his cynicism and sarcasm.
Something changed today.......

I just stopped and looked at him for a while. I saw that beneath that morbid attitude is a scared little kid who just wants to feel free... Someone who secretly harbors the hope that one day everything will be fine...
You see, he was told today that the ailment he was suffering from is not curable. He had gone through all possible treatments, but nothing could be done.

It broke him. I have never felt him feel this sad, forlorn and lost.

This made me think.. IS IT WORTH IT??
You know all the pain & suffering that I was feeling for him. If nothing could be done then there was nothing I could do to hep him. I put my hands up and said that it is not my problem.

Then I looked at him again....and what I saw scared me...
I had done it....Killed the last ray of hope he had..........

----------This is not me.....a story that someone had told me......
Don't know why I am writing this though.........................-----------

QUESTIONS QUESTIONS!!

Why am I here?
Why do we work so much when we know we are gonna die someday?
Why do we care about others when they don't?
Why cant we just forget our bad memories ?
Why do we have to study stuff we don't even need?
Why do we have to live under corrupt inept politicians?
Why the bad roads?
Why do we have to face death?
Why can't it just be a snapshot? One sec. here the other gone...
Why do we believe in something we can't even see.?
Why do our emotions rule us...?
What is happiness? Our life's aim or some stupid chemical reaction..
Why do we yearn for things that we don't need?
Why can't we have a better cricket team.?
Why can't we win an olympic gold??
Why does the canteen food taste so bad?
Why does it rain when I am mad?
Most importantly
Why am I writing this?.......when this doesn't make any sense.........

IRONY

Isn't it ironical/maybe comical that the only thing that comes with a lifetime guarantee is life...

Independence at last....Freedom Here I Come!!!!!!!

Independence..
I have finally realized one thing. Emotional dependence is something we look for because of being social animals . But in today's world it seems like a flaw to me.
It makes you dependent on someone...And our independence is something that gives us the strength to face everything....
Freedom here I come..

The UNTOUCHABLE

I just heard about someone I know who is dying.
We humans have a tendency to think of ourselves as indestructible, invincible.
Thousands of people die daily but none of us thinks that "I might die today"..
I know its a very morbid thought..but not unreasonable.
We think of ourself as the Untouchable. The all conquering god.
But what are we really..??

20-20

20-20

Any cricket fan would know what I am talking about. It is the hottest topic for debate in the cricketing world right now. Pursits detest it, crowd for the most part love it and cricketers have a divided opinion.

Now my own views regarding to this are my own, but there are some points of criticism rleated to it that I cannot possibly agree with.

What everyone has been saying is that it favours the batsmen too much .

I would like to ask them just question.

How do you decide what good bowling standards are?

Today we frown upon 20-20 because we see bowlers getting smashed around the ground. The best ones going for 8-9 runs an over. But in the 50 over edition don't we call 4 runs an over a good economy rate? There was a time when 4 runs an over was considered expensive. Get my point.Obviously the transition will take some time but then we will arrive on a new set of bowling standards. And then it will be all hunky-dory again :)
Same goes for batsmen. In 20-20 a strike rate of 100 would be normal and anything less would be a cardinal sin.

The only thing I have against 20-20 is that it takes away the variation from the game .There is too less time to try out various things. Everyone will bat the same way, like they are on a mission to rip the ball apart. Bowlers will try and save runs instead of trying to get wickets. Imagine a guy like Warnie trying to be on the defensive !!
I just hope that ICC comes to its senses and understands that this fast food edition of cricket is good only as a money spinner but it wont increase the popularity like they think. They need to promote the game in associate countries more. If they really want to shorten the ODI's the 40 over format of England's former SUNDAY LEAGUE makes more sense. I sincierly hope that ICC wakes up before it is too late and world cricket goes the way that Indian Hockey has.