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I walked on to the crease like just another day
After 2 years I was finally going to play
Filled with child like excitement
You know cricket was life for me
people used to watch cricket I used to breath cricket
I was that HAR GALI KA TENDULKAR
Yea that was me..
so.. It was soo much that my house
living room walls had to be renovated
because they were all looking clumsy with rubber ball patches
so that was me...
Anyway coming back to the day
so I was playing cricket after 2 years It was a big deal for me
and we lost the toss
and we were going to field as always I was
standing near the boundry at mid-off because I had
a very good judgement of long distance catches and
I had a very strong arm to throw the ball
First time the ball came towards me
I ran towards the ball and I sat to field
somehow the ball went this side I thought it's coming straight but it went this side
I just somehow dived, I caught it, I threw
I shrugged it off saying "It's okay I am playing after 2 years"
Maybe I just did not
judge the ball very well i din't read it very well
It so happened it the fielding like 2 or 3
times I missed catches and misfielded
the innings got over so I was just like
Okay not a big deal I am gonna anyway open the innings so
that is my thing I am gonna bat first
so lets do it
I was all set openning batting first one to go
As soon as
the first ball came
I couldn't understand what happened
It just passed by
I couldn't really fathom what happened
I just spoke to my friend told him go for another ball
He bowled the second time I just din't get any
judgement of the speed. The speed just didn't adjust to my eyes
That moment I just thought probably it's over but..
A sportsman never gives up He can't give up
I asked him to spin the ball cause if you
cannot get a fast delivery what you try is to spin the ball
He spun the ball after the first bounce
I had no idea of where the ball went
And that was a big thing in that moment..
Lastly I just told him just go for a slower ball in a very exasperated tone
I told him go for a slower ball
maybe I will try playing that
I somehow managed playing that
at that moment I knew it was over
cricket for me was over
The eyes that at one point of time
spotted a cricket ball in a pitch dark ground
today could not read a spin delivery
The eyes which were the best for long distance catches
today are afraid when something is thrown
towards me so.. that sort of ate me
You know I still remember when dad brought me my first bat
It was a kashmir willow with you know that perfect stroke
for all the cricket lovers they would know this stroke bit of it
that day the bat in my hand had lost it's life practically
it was over for me
Time and again people kept telling me you keep practicing
it will come to you how could I explain to them how good I am at it or
probably how good I was at it
can you unlearn to walk
can you unlearn to cycle
that
that was that moment
till that day this accident
or the disability caused by
the accident never affected me but that day reality hit me
and this one hit hard
this one hit really hard because you know I was just used to listening
people that "you are a miracle child of all the
children in the accident you were the luckiest and soonest to recover
and I was suffocating inside
is that luck
I still remember
I fell on the ground and I kept crying soo badly because some how
I wanted to stop everything
somehow I wanted to shout aloud
please I just wanted to play some cricket
but now its gone
Strangely I don't remember how the accident happened
I have no memory of it
I just know in my 10th grade I had an accident
after 40 days of ventilation I woke up in the hospital
and 2 years I had a very good life I din't have any problem
I used to drive I used to
talk to people, I used to read, I used to recite everything was good
But probably that day life taught me
Learn to value every small thing that you have because
Regrets don't pay for the loss Thank you
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