Long back somewhere I read that 'One Glorious moment under the sun is worth a thousand lives'.
Three hours back, for the Cricket team of India there was a glorious moment . May be not only for them , but for all those thousand Indians in the stadium , millions at home , shops , hotels , clubs , streets , borders , everywhere watching and praying for India to win the World Cup it was a glorious moment of
our lives. A moment to hold forever.
In a day or two , again we will fall back to our daily routine, those who are employed will go to work and unemployed will serach for work. We will be again trapped into casual happenstances of life. There is no escape from reality. However for those few moments when the Indian Capatain Mahendra Singh Dhoni
scored the winning runs by putting the ball outside the boundary in a most fashionable way and rotate his
bat like a gladiators' sword , we Indians were happy. For a moment we were not separate individuals ,
we were all part of single joy. Even those pretty Emirates air hostess by the side of World cup standing
for longtime giving digital smile , tired commentators hoping to return home soon were happy.
You may argue what is there in the game . Is it going to solve crime , reduce poverty , make some new technological innovation ? No , it was never meant to. This was to look beyond our daily failures to something refreshing. It is a choice to make that never lose hope.
From the moment , when Srilankan Captain won the toss and was asked what will be a good score and he answered that anything they can put on board will be a good score, I hoped it will be close contest. And it was , a fight between tiger and lion , where tiger won. When India was 31-2 , I was dreading whether it will be like a previous World Cup Final defeat . But this time we won for the brilliance of our players who went that extra step, that extra inch to clinch victory , to claim immortality. They made us , the 1.2 biilion people of India winners.
Whoever says winning isn't everything may be a loser. Winning is everything. And it feels good to be
winner after long time.
Though like most of Indians I was hoping for a Fairytale ending to the fablous contest , by Great Sachin
scoring his 100th Internationl Hundred and bringing the world cup home after 28 years , I cannot
complain now.
May be God of Cricket has to wait for few more months for his next milestone.
At the end thank you team India for giving me one of the best moment of my life. Thank You
Three hours back, for the Cricket team of India there was a glorious moment . May be not only for them , but for all those thousand Indians in the stadium , millions at home , shops , hotels , clubs , streets , borders , everywhere watching and praying for India to win the World Cup it was a glorious moment of
our lives. A moment to hold forever.
In a day or two , again we will fall back to our daily routine, those who are employed will go to work and unemployed will serach for work. We will be again trapped into casual happenstances of life. There is no escape from reality. However for those few moments when the Indian Capatain Mahendra Singh Dhoni
scored the winning runs by putting the ball outside the boundary in a most fashionable way and rotate his
bat like a gladiators' sword , we Indians were happy. For a moment we were not separate individuals ,
we were all part of single joy. Even those pretty Emirates air hostess by the side of World cup standing
for longtime giving digital smile , tired commentators hoping to return home soon were happy.
You may argue what is there in the game . Is it going to solve crime , reduce poverty , make some new technological innovation ? No , it was never meant to. This was to look beyond our daily failures to something refreshing. It is a choice to make that never lose hope.
From the moment , when Srilankan Captain won the toss and was asked what will be a good score and he answered that anything they can put on board will be a good score, I hoped it will be close contest. And it was , a fight between tiger and lion , where tiger won. When India was 31-2 , I was dreading whether it will be like a previous World Cup Final defeat . But this time we won for the brilliance of our players who went that extra step, that extra inch to clinch victory , to claim immortality. They made us , the 1.2 biilion people of India winners.
Whoever says winning isn't everything may be a loser. Winning is everything. And it feels good to be
winner after long time.
Though like most of Indians I was hoping for a Fairytale ending to the fablous contest , by Great Sachin
scoring his 100th Internationl Hundred and bringing the world cup home after 28 years , I cannot
complain now.
May be God of Cricket has to wait for few more months for his next milestone.
At the end thank you team India for giving me one of the best moment of my life. Thank You
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