Thanks! Sachin
Aricent finally e-mailed my appointment letter on the 30th of June .I was eagerly anticipating the arrival of this e-mail since may. That day,my future co-employee Rachit informed me that he got his appointment letter.When I logged on to my impish(awesome_aj...) yahoo id, I found to my extreme displeasure that my date of joining is on the 10th of September and that I'd have to head south once again ,to chennai.
Since the day I was selected ,the possibility of getting to work in Delhi and living in my own house, had been a source of elation for me. So, I didn't take this bit of information very well. I started conjecturing that I may not find my kind of people in chennai. Which could lead me into isolation , make me a recluse- removed from the stir of society. I would never want to live either as such a misanthropist or a puppet-compromising and making adjustments to fit in a group .
There was a cricket match on that day ,India vs South Africa . Makhaya Ntini and Andre Nel were dishing out a barrage of short pitched deliveries to the hapless Indian openers. They were bowling as though they had a mortal feud unavenged with the batsmen. Then,out of the blue ,Tendulkar counter-attacked.He pulled Ntini four or five times for boundaries and hooked Nel, over the square leg fence for a massive six. He drove on the rise with aplomb ,took the attack to the spinner(i forgot his name) and never allowed the bowlers to settle into any rhythm.He batted like the Sachin of old ,watching whom, an awe-struck Bradman remarked (to his wife)"Honey, Watch this young lad, I think this is how I used to play!".Sachin got out at 93. India went on to win.
This masterpiece of an innings had a therapeutic effect on me. My prospects brightened and I stopped sulking.I started thinking that Chennai could not be all that bad, after all the city is a metropolis. Besides, I won't get a lot of time for much social endeavors because there's bound to be a lot of work in my office. Sachin cheered me up in ninety minutes.Had he not played the way he did it would have taken me a lot more time to have seen things in the right perspective.
Since the day I was selected ,the possibility of getting to work in Delhi and living in my own house, had been a source of elation for me. So, I didn't take this bit of information very well. I started conjecturing that I may not find my kind of people in chennai. Which could lead me into isolation , make me a recluse- removed from the stir of society. I would never want to live either as such a misanthropist or a puppet-compromising and making adjustments to fit in a group .
There was a cricket match on that day ,India vs South Africa . Makhaya Ntini and Andre Nel were dishing out a barrage of short pitched deliveries to the hapless Indian openers. They were bowling as though they had a mortal feud unavenged with the batsmen. Then,out of the blue ,Tendulkar counter-attacked.He pulled Ntini four or five times for boundaries and hooked Nel, over the square leg fence for a massive six. He drove on the rise with aplomb ,took the attack to the spinner(i forgot his name) and never allowed the bowlers to settle into any rhythm.He batted like the Sachin of old ,watching whom, an awe-struck Bradman remarked (to his wife)"Honey, Watch this young lad, I think this is how I used to play!".Sachin got out at 93. India went on to win.
This masterpiece of an innings had a therapeutic effect on me. My prospects brightened and I stopped sulking.I started thinking that Chennai could not be all that bad, after all the city is a metropolis. Besides, I won't get a lot of time for much social endeavors because there's bound to be a lot of work in my office. Sachin cheered me up in ninety minutes.Had he not played the way he did it would have taken me a lot more time to have seen things in the right perspective.
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