Life lessons from Dhoni's Innings!

I learn my life lesson's from sports. Whether I implement them is completely another thing. Yet, sports to me has been the best teacher.

So here are certain life lesson's from Dhoni, the adopted son of Chennai.

1) When he walked in to bat, India were in dire straits. Dhoni was calm, collected and composed. And just made sure that he was there till India is out of the woods. 

      - Be calm and collected in times of trouble. We will soon be out of the woods.

2) He did not go slam bang when the young Hardik was going hammer and tongs. He can hit those big sixes as well, but that was not was expected of him.

      - Just because the world out there is living a different life, we need not! 

3) When Hardik was going after the Aussies, Dhoni was constantly mentoring his young ward all the tricks of the trade.

      - Don't be insecure in passing on the the lessons you have learnt.

4) The last overs Dhoni refused the single and took it upon himself to go for the big hits.

      - During the important moments of life, it is important to take charge.

5) Dhoni was the oldest in that team. And among the fittest. Even when Hardik was struggling to run, Dhoni ran like a hare.

      - Age can never be the reason for not working hard at your work place.

I murdered her! And so did you!

So she scored 1176 marks out of 1200, and did not get a medical seat. For those of the privileged cadre who studied in a "Non-Tamil Nadu state board" of education system, she is in the 99.5th percentile, if that makes sense to you.

There was no mother at home. The father had to bend over backwards to keep some food on the table. 

Did she have all three meals daily? I would not be surprised if she hadn't! For the men eat before the womenfolk in this country.Did she walk three kms daily to school? Or took bus which carried three times its load? Did her house have electricity? or was she reading in the darkness of night under a candle most of the time? Did she have to clean the house and the vessels and the clothes of hers and the siblings and the father as the lone woman in the house? And was she ill treated in school coz she was from the lower caste? Did she walk with her head held high?Or did she carry her chappals as she walked through the upper caste street? Was she in the first place allowed to walk through all the streets in her village? Did the house have a toilet? Did her house leaked when it rained? 

And to be honest I would not be surprised if every question above had an answer in the affirmation. For they are common for a young dalit girl living in an interior tamil village.

And yet she scored more marks than 99.5% of people who wrote that examination. Most of the remaining whom she fought against did not do even one of this. She had to fight her way through life. If that kid, who sure had won much bigger battles against misogyny, patriarchy, caste oppression, poverty, hunger, tiredness and every other idiocy this country had thrown at her, succumbs to crushed dreams who is to answer?

I am equally responsible for this!

For I fought for the cow and not for her; For I voted a party who stood against her; For I'm complicit in inculcating in her a wrong dream that you compete to live; For I live with the wrong notion that it is more important to score good marks than to live happily; For I comply with the opinion that being a doctor is much better than being an engineer; For I accept mediocrity and corruption and callousness in my leaders; For I behaved like she did not exist; For I chose Oviya's fight over hers; For I still discriminate on the basis of the father's race;

I'm sorry young girl! I'm truly sorry. You were brave. You had won many battles I would have been knocked down in the first round. How I wish you had not quit now also. 

RIP young girl! For I, the citizen of this sovereign, democratic, republic do not deserve you.