Sachin A Billion Dreams - a time machine

For a kind of person, who bought all newspapers available in town just to cut off Sachin’s picture and paste in a notebook and preserving the book as a treasure, who spend his spare time by watching Sachin’s old matches in Youtube, who watches IPL just to see the glimpse moments of Sachin in MI’s dugout, this “SACHIN : A Billion Dreams” is a world’s yummiest cake frosting with the world’s tastiest cherry.

I was never fully convinced, when government instructed all theaters to play National Anthem before playing the movie. Whenever I went to theaters, I stand for National Anthem without any relevance and purpose. Honestly I confess, I wasn’t that patriotic when I stood for National anthem in theaters, mean whileI used to check whether everyone was standing or not. This time, the case is different. I can feel the patriotism all of a sudden, a kind of unique feel, sense of proudness – Goosebumps!

All these years, in my life, I have never gone for theater alone. I used to go with my family, relatives and friends. Never alone! This time, I asked my busiest friends to join me, few were reluctant and rest were available on Sunday. If it’s any other movie, I might get compromise. The experience was a like, watching a cricket match in a stadium. The moment when the clips of Sachin getting 200 runs came, the audience went crazy. It was like, myself sitting in Gwalior and cheering. This was one such instance. Without time machine, I traveled back to Shivaji Park, Karachi, Sharjah, Perth, Centurion, our own M.A.Chidambaram, Wankhade and watched Sachin playing. One of my dreams which I thought I can’t tick in checkbox is watching Sachin playing in the stadium. But now, I can console myself.

When I awkwardly copied Sachin

We want to know, how our super hero would have thought when he face problems, criticism. At the least, we love to read in articles. How the feel will be, when you got to know, what was in your super hero’s mind – in which most part of them were describing by the man himself. I have a feeling that, I'm beating around the bush with loss of words. May be yet to return to present. It’s all together, totally a different film with Vera-level feeling.

I keep disappointing myself by not writing, for last few months. Be it my days as a Soft skill trainer, days when I was idle at home, MBA days, Vardha Puyal, TN Political Attrocities, Jallikattu, about my trips to Pondicherry, Yercaud, Vedanthangal, Munnar, Wayanad, of late Rajnikanth’s fan meet and many more.  Somehow, few getting postponed and I dropped few as it got expired to showcase. I don’t want that happen this time. 

This is for the very special character, I brought into my life – S A C H I N. I'm not sure about the second part of the previous sentence, I still have the doubt, whether I brought him in my life or he marched himself into my life, but he’s big part of my life – no doubt in that. If you have read, very special character – I literally mean – VERY SPECIAL – Zero Level Exaggeration.

Learn from life

“Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right.” – Henry Ford.

In life, to be a better professional you have to learn few things, the same applies also to be a better person. Life will teach us everything; it’s about reminding others what they fail to see.  We have to start learning from life one by one. In Social Media life, there are several applications to increase the likes, followers. In real life, it’s not that easy to influence, inspire people and converting them as followers.It may take a long time to develop those qualities in our life, before that it just take a matter of time to think. Only if we think, we can implement and lead a quality life. So, let us start to think with one of the basic quality which we need to develop as a good human being.

Appreciation - It’s a giving thing. People may ask money, gold, food, water from others but never appreciation, instead they yearn for it.

Think of the moments when you appreciate your mother’s food, father’s smartness, sibling’s work – why can’t we try this out with other people. Somehow, we fail to appreciate others when they do commendable job.

When a baby fell down while trying to walk, you got to appreciate its effort. Rather if you scold and threatened the baby for trying, it will never walk. On the contrary, if you appreciate when someone does evil, he’ll continue to do more. We need to know when to appreciate.  If we appreciate for everyone for everything then there will be no value for appreciation.

There were lot of speculation regarding the dislike button in facebook. Though Mark rolled out various reaction buttons, he didn’t introduce the dislike button. The reason given by Facebook was they didn’t want to limit user’s reaction to just simple “dislike”. Think in this perspective, when we share a post, if we get dislikes more than likes, psychologically we will reduce the number posts we share. At one point of time, we may stop posting in facebook. What if everyone has this fear and slowly Facebook turn to another Orkut. Mark may doesn’t want a single button, which depreciate people, to reduce his profit.

Makes sense right ?

On World Kidney Day, the organisation where I worked earlier conducted a free kidney check-up camp. Few volunteers from a hospital came and conducted the check-up. At the end of the day, those volunteers were waiting for their bus to return. In that time, myself along with my manager passed them. Suddenly, my manager stopped, went to them and said “You guys did a wonderful job. Thank you.” After wishing them, he left. I stood there and saw the smile in their face, which I think is priceless.

I didn’t appreciate them in first place.  Thus, it mean I don’t know about appreciation before? I knew about appreciation. Simple, I just forgot. This is the lesson life reminded me to appreciate people, if they do commendable work. In professional life, this will help us to have better relationship with our peers, sub-ordinates and also to maintain the co-ordination among employees and in personal life, it will keep you surrounded by your well wishers.

Develop the quality of Appreciation by appreciating me for reminding you about Appreciation. I do yearn for Appreciation. Human, right?

Jokes apart, take a moment to appreciate when people do good work, which we couldn’t do. It will just take a matter of time to apply in our life.

Keep Smiling :)