IPL Review

The IPL is finally over. I did not follow IPL much last year because of the hectic schedules so I did not have much idea about how it is like. It was fun this year following all the games. Fantasy cricket made it even more interesting.

Its all a good concept. But you can't help thinking that its too long. Its hard to understand why every team has to play each other twice. The home and away concept seems to be flawed. Moreover, waiting for 37 days to know who the winner is, is just not done. One of the best things about T20 is that you get to know the winner in 3 hours. So waiting that long to decide the winner is just like watching a 4 or 5 test series to finally know who is going to win. And that defeats the purpose of T20! I also think that most of us guys even lost interest in Fantasy cricket half way through!

So while IPL promises fun, an overdose of cricket can get nauseating. And thats what happened this time atleast. I hope the organizers do something about it next year.

A lesson learnt

It hurt, really hurt. For some timeless moments I feared the worst. I feared that all my dreams have come down crashing. As I gathered my wits back, I kind of got a feeling that things were not as serious as I had earlier thought. Still, I was worried. I hoped it was not threatening. Moreover, I was shocked. Shocked thinking that how little wrong you've got to do to spoil all your good work, done perhaps in a life time. Its amazing really that one small wrong is equal to, and can negate, a thousand huge rights!
The question I asked myself is Was it really wrong? Whatever happened, was it really my fault? It was sheer bad luck, the probability of being precisely at that point at that time and being hit was really one in a million. Yet, I was hit. How cruel can my luck be!
Its easy to blame your luck in such cases. But as I introspected, I quickly realized that on that day and at that time I should not have been there in the first place! I really should have been here, sitting on this very chair and working on this very computer. Before I went there, I had a decision to make: Should I continue working OR should I go there .... and I took the easier decision, I succumbed to the temptation. And it was not just yesterday, I had been taking this easier, tempting and incorrect decision of going there for the last three days! There have been times when "He" has been very kind on me. "He" has made me believe that hard work never goes waste. "He" has made sure that as I sow, so shall I reap. Yesterday, it felt like "He" wanted to teach me a lesson, the hard way. "He" wanted to remind me of my responsibilities and warn me of my wrongs. "He" wanted me to realize that things should never be taken for granted.
Though painful, it has been a useful lesson.... or as they say every dark cloud has a silver lining. It is through these incidences that you learn about how to treat your falls and how to rise from them. Literally. It is through such events that you grow and mature. I'm grateful to "Him" for putting me through this. I have still not recovered though, so hoping that "He" helps me recover soon and hoping that things are not serious :)