S for Sachin

There’s a proverb saying human heart is like monkey, it wanders all around. Everyone in their childhood likes something or someone due to some attraction. As the life moves on, their mentality changes and their likings too. I have one question to ask many people, if we really admired a person, how we could change our likings unless that person having any negatives. When we find one person better than another and if we goes after the better, aren't we called by some other name. Many will disagree with me, but I wasn't kind of person having an alternative, when the person I admired failed to impress.

Children always like a person who has larger than life image. During my childhood days, there were two heroes with larger than life image. One was Shaktimaan, our celluloid Superhero and the next one “is” Sachin Tendulkar. I prefer “is”, because he’s still having that image. How my diary gets completed without having pages about my hero. There are millions of articles about Sachin in internet and many blogs and I have read many of them. After reading those, I craved for many days to write about Sachin. Finally, I had one in my name.

Despite saying about his achievements (it’s impossible to narrate in one article), I sketched to describe his presence in my life.

When I awkwardly copied Sachin

Rewinding 16 years back, I had my first memory on Sachin, it was during India vs Pakistan, Sachin was bowled out by Wasim Akram and my dad turned off TV. Even in 2003 World cup final, when Sachin got out in first over, my dad switched off TV. I didn't watch rest of the match. As my father is an ardent follower of cricket, it’s not a surprise. My mother doesn't know about cricket, but whenever I seek her permission to watch cricket she would tell me to turn off TV after Sachin got out. This was the habit in my home, till I took some control over remote. I am addicted to boost, I guess you all know the reason. Till Now, I won't drink coffee or tea, unless I was forced by relatives when I visit their home. Whenever Sachin scored century, next day morning I used to buy all newspapers and cut his picture and stick in the notebooks. In my school, majority of them were Sachin fans, we'll fight for the tag “Sachin Tendulkar”. Most of them would say “I’m Sachin of our class”. Me and my best friend too fight for the tag, to put an end to this fight, we decided from that day I will be called as Sachin and he will be called as Tendulkar. That’s the impact his NAME had created. When I put any fight with my dad, I won't talk to him, though he tried to console me.  If we had fight during match days, he will come and ask me “What’s Sachin Score?”, I can't resist myself, I would narrate how Sachin got out, what are shots Sachin Played with actions. Even now when I think of those times, I can't control my smile. I earned many friends because of Sachin and whoever may be, I never hesitate to fight for Sachin. Sachin doesn't know about my existence. But, his presence gave many things to me. I got my precious and he's one of the reason for that.

sachin book collection

With his magic spells and outstanding fielding, he had won many matches for India. When opponent players built up a frustrating partnerships, Ganguly would give the ball to Sachin and the magician spin the ball to turn the match in our way. His sharp direct hits and stunning catches needs no mention. More than a cricketer, he’s one of the best human being. Anyone can take him as a role model. For children who have bigger aim in life, irrespective of the field, he’s the best example. At the tender age of 16, he demolished the best bowling attack of that time. For boys who wants to succeed in love, he made the girl seven years older than him, to love him. For youths, who wants to keep their family in good position, at that age he kept the trust of the whole nation. For married men, he set the example of how to love a family, despite busy schedule. For politicians, he adopted the village Puttamraju Kandriga in Andhra and made it a well-developed village with good infrastructure. Last but not the least, he respects his parents, that’s why he’s at place, where no one can touch his shadow.

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I won't say he is the talented cricketer of his generation, because I had witnessed many players with great talent than him. Some people from pakistan hailed Afridi as god, some from sri lanka hails Sangakkara as god, some people following football saying messi as their god. Not to forgot, Sachin is the first sportsman to called as God, he started this legacy. But what he had and others lacked is the Almighty's Grace, that's the reason he achieved this God Status and some other may say that as a luck. Whatever maybe, he is always one step ahead of the rest.

At each stage of our life, we will have one goal/wish. In my childhood, I wished to be cricketer, few years later I wished to be a collector, and now I wish to be an eminent writer. One wish that remains constant as my love towards Sachin is to meet him before my lifetime. I may meet him when I go to heaven, but there I can't take photos and upload it in fb and keep that picture as my DP, who knows when Zuckerberg goes to heaven, he may develop one as fb in there too ;). Jokes apart, one day definitely I'll meet Sachin and will take photo with him and preserve that rest of my life.

Always a proud Sachinist.

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