The Gust of Wind!

Long ago when I was playing a cricket match one of our opponent batsman was hitting the ball for sixes. No, he was not in the Kieron Pollard mould, neither was he timing his shots well. But all the while that he was batting, the one thing that was helping his cause was the gust of wind that aided the ball (mind you it was a tennis ball) to clear the boundary comfortably. However, when it was our turn to bat the wind changed direction and whatever our team hit, the gust of wind pulled everything and made sure we all became out! WTF moment for all us. Whom do you blame? Who was responsible for the debacle? Was the venue a problem? Or was a problem with the ball? How much ever we cried over it, in the end, we could never get a satisfactory explanation or nothing could ever justify the occurrence of events in that match.

 

Similarly even in life, there are these gusts of wind that screw up all our preparation, all our expectation, all our dedication and make us feel horrible about ourselves, make us feel angry, frustrated. How much ever you mull over as to WHY all this happened, you always get sucked up in more self pity, hatred, anger. So do we renounce the world adorn saffron robes, and sit in himalayan caves? Or become "spirit"ual in the company of friends in the evening and wake up from different gutters every morning?

 

Imagine you are writing an engineering exam and as usual you have no clue as to what is asked in the question paper. Most of the engineers experience these WTF moments in the exam, when all that you have studied is for that god damn 35 marks, and in all combinations of permutations, you calculate that there is a high probability that you dont get to cross the border. Also, imagine that because of the little punya you have earned by not thinking about that cool babe from the other department, during exams(Why not from the same department? well, ask the guys from mechanical department :D) GOD sends you a genie at that most opportune time! Now the genie is a DIGITAL electronics PhD holder, who only understands boolean logic. he either answers WHY type of questions or HOW type of questions. Unless your immediate goal is to become a spiritual leader, your immediate question to the genie would obviously be to HOW to answer the questions and pass the exam. The WHY questions can be saved for the beer sessions with the friends in the night.

 

So friends, instead of mulling and crying over why somethings happen only to ME, it is always advantageous to think and work on HOW to solve/handle things in life, that were screwed by the gust of wind!

 

Finally, is the gust of wind always against us? Ask the batsman who became a Kieron Pollard working model for a day, in that cricket match ;)