The
Deepavali spirit was celebrated by
Team India yesterday with a spectacular win in the series clinching One Day
International at Bangalore against a very strong Australian team. Harsha Bhogle,
while delivering the match summary, said that things could have been different
had James Faulkner (116 from 73 balls) stayed on. But Bhogle also quickly
added: “Cricket is not about what might have been!”
And
so it is with Life. Life isn’t about what might have been, what was or what
will be. It is what it is! And also, whatever happened or is happening, is
always for making us better, stronger and happier!
We
all do, however, wish that our Life be in a certain way. But Life doesn’t ever really
pan out the way we plan. So we get stuck in a past event – grieving. Or worry
about a future event – fearing how it will be. Our definitions of good or bad
are made from our own perspectives. So if we wish for something and it doesn’t
happen, we think it is a bad deal for us. For instance, Rohit Sharma, the
Indian opener who scored a brilliant 209 yesterday, was not selected to
represent India in the 2011 World Cup. His coach Dinesh Lad says Sharma was
shattered when he was not picked up to play for India in that historic
tournament. “He was really depressed (at) that time when he was dropped from the
World Cup squad. But eventually that proved to be the best thing that happened
to him. It made him focus on the game a lot more. 'I'll
come back into the Indian team with a bang,' he told me. His game
changed completely. He started capitalizing on his starts and became a
different player," Lad told Times of India.
Just the same way, invariably, all the events we thought of
as setbacks in our Life have contributed to our evolution – emotionally,
physically, professionally, financially and spiritually.
To be sure, if you sit down and review your Life, you will
agree that everything that has happened in it so far has made you who you are
today. Indeed it never could have been any different from what it was. And
really your Life cannot be any different from what it is just now.
So embrace Life for what it is, love what you have and live
it fully! Remember: each moment that you wish your Life could
have been different or worry about how it will turn out to be in the future, is
a moment you have squandered, a moment that you will have not “lived”!
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