I remember as a kid when I use to play cricket with my dad and bro, I would always want to field at forward short leg. That was the first fielding position of Rahul Dravid, of what I could understand and remember as kid… Rahul Dravid has played a vital role in shaping my life and my attitude to everything. He is not just my hero because he looks cute but because the person he is.
Even though I will never have the opportunity to know him personally but what I know him through his games and otherwise just makes me idolise him.’The Wall’, ‘Mr. dependable’, ‘The Go To Person’ Are just few of the names we know Dravid as. He has done everything that his country and his team has asked for. Fielding in slips to wicketkeeping, batting at number 3 to come down at number 6 and sometimes open as well. I have seen him bowling in few tests as well! From a team mate to wise captain to test match captain to back to teammate. He has played all roles with all sincerity, giving his 100% to the game and to the nation.
I am not going to throw in numbers (I am bad at remembering stats!)… Rather I am going to talk about how my dad saw my love for Dravid and took this opportunity to not only ensure that I don’t turn into just a crazy fan but follow an idol they way it suppose to be. Dad would tell me so what if you can’t play cricket like Dravid, you can still be like the person he is. He taught me to be tough, never give up, be well prepared always, be the mr. Dependable for everyone and most important of all, be humble like Rahul Dravid is. Dravid has also taught us that you can win by defence as well, you can break an opponent by defending, all his test matches speaks of that. You don’t need to be aggressive to win… You can win if you have grit, determination and will.
So what if I can’t play the cover drive like many fans of Dravid would die to play like him, but I can still be him in the manner I conduct my self and my attitude towards everything.I am not saying that I am exactly like Rahul Dravid is, but I can proudly say that I am mr. Dependable for my boss and my team. I am the go to person for my family and friends and I try my best to be humble as much as possible.
This is my small way of saying thank you to Rahul Dravid, to my hero, my idol. You have made a great difference in my life and I owe it all to you. Thank you Sir!
Before you jump to conclusions. I am talking about death of celebrities and big personalities whom we do not know personally, specially the ones who were not even from the same generation you were born in or have seen their work.
Today everyone is mourning Dev Saab’s death. However people are not stopping there, they are creating his album and uploading on personal FB profiles, talking about his movies and making it trend on Twitter.
These are people who have hardly seen one or two movies, let say 5 movies of him, simply because he was not from our generation. But yet people are talking about him as if they adored him and followed his work as a cult. (Generalizing here… I am sure there will be people who did follow his work and I do respect their feelings.)
I will mourn and remember if something happens to (God Forbid) Sachin Tendulkar or Amitabh Bachchan. The reason being I have grown up seeing them play / act, I continue to do so.. however I haven’t grown up seeing Dev saab’s work. I have only heard that he was a cult in his times, and know few of the songs. However I never followed his work.
Thus I will pay respect but don’t expect me to remember him and talk about him on Twitter or anywhere else…
Note: I am making it very clear I am not talking about death of a loved one, or of a person whom even if you knew barely. I am talking only about celebs as I mentioned in my first para.
I have been doing client servicing for more than six years now… one year in the education space, 2 years in the PR space and over three years now in the Social Media space. Even though the industry changes, the Client Servicing scope remains the same.
You are expected and have to be a master at the following:
PATIENT, Can take on any bullshit (work on the clients you don’t like or understand), kicking Butt, Licking Ass, diplomatic, friendly, advisory and AVAILABLE 24x7.
If you are not or don’t want to play the above mentioned roles, please move out of the client servicing role right now!
Please be assured that any given point of time you will be expected to play any 2/3 roles mentioned above. Also if someone tells you otherwise, that person has either hardly done any client servicing work or else has been the luckiest guy around.
This is and will be the case forever! Don’t think outside India its going to be different. The dynamics will remain the same everywhere, the level of it will be different.
So I need you guys to think twice before taking up this role, and once you are in, you are allowed to crib but please don’t complaint!
There have been times in this past two months where I want to vent out my feelings or just write about anything but just don’t have time or energy to. At times I am lazy as well :-)
Any ways there is this one recurring thought which keeps on coming to my mind and I have decided to pen that down.
I keep on thinking what If five years down the line I become Prime Minister of India! Don’t ask me why am I getting such stupid thought, specially when I dont know or follow politics at all.
Any ways I got to go now shall write in my next post what do I plan to do If I become Prime Minister of India - My 10 points agenda!
"Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything."
— George Lois
On Saturday – Jan 8, 2011 to be precise, I left from home and walked up to my office (I am one of the few lucky one whose office is just hop skip and jump). I was very proud of myself and walked with my chin high up. Proud because I am working where I love to work and hence it’s not work at all. I am blessed with a very understanding and less demanding hubby, so all in all I was walking on high heels and with my eyes straight ahead as if am on some mission.
The next thing I know, I was kissing the ground! I had badly twisted my right foot. It hurt so bad that I couldn’t resume walking to office for next 7-8 mins. I just stood there on the street leaning against the dirty wall for support. That was the most embarrassing moment. A min back I was walking on cloud so as to speak and next min I was down and out.
Well after painful 10 mins I limped to office. I stood at the gate of the office building and braced myself to climb up two floors as the building has no lift. It took me no exaggeration more than 5 mins to climb up.
My entire weekend went for a toss. I couldn’t sleep peacefully at night as I had to take care of my right foot. Monday morning when I walked back to office and passed the spot where I had slipped a realization hit me. Usually when I walk, I have my eyes fixed to the ground most of the times (for religious reasons I was taught as a child to look down and walk). On Saturday however I didn’t walk like that and I slipped. I take that experience as learning. That the minute I had pride written on my face I was taught a lesson. One has to walk in humility, be humble. Pride is not going to take you anywhere. In fact pride only takes you down.
Therefore from now onwards I shall always remember to walk with humility and not in pride.
PS: I might sound philosophical and exaggerating to you specially taking inferences out of a simple thing like falling down. However great learning usually comes from simple things is what I believe.
There’s always a little seriousness behind every ‘Just kidding’ A little knowledge behind every ‘I dont know’ A little Feeling behind every ‘I dont care’ A little love behind every ‘I hate you’ A little uneasiness behind every ‘I am okay’ A little pain behind every ‘forget it’ A little fear behind every ‘Leave me alone’ A little hope behind every ‘Goodbye’ There’s always ‘something’ behind evry ‘nothing’ Every heart has a tale 2 tell behind every action, emotion & expression If only we’d understand the words behind every silence, maybe someday we’d understand life..!
These lines were written by Khushboo Thakkar
Just noticed that past few posts of mine were all about travelling, destinations and taking on new ventures and it just happened on its own without me specifically thinking about it. I sat to wonder how come suddenly I have become so ‘philosophical’ in nature.
I looked back to my life and realized my thoughts which I penned down were a mirror to the phase of life I was going through. I recently took a break from WATConsult to try out something different. I was lost there, was trying to find a foothold, a path which would lead me to my desired destination. However I realized soon that WAT was where I belonged and by just doing few changes I can reach my destination through WAT’s journey itself.
So am back to WAT and my path is laid all I have to do is walk on it and reach my destination. Of course it will have bumpers but then all roads have! I am happy to be back!
No more posts on travelling and destination!
"All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware."
— Martin Buber
TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference
By Robert Frost
