I did not move an inch, I was just holding my hands just like how it was when last point was taken. I was looking at God’s photo and praying for every point. “Oh God! Please give strength to her to win the game”. Yes it was for Sindhu, just like me, many of us might have prayed for her. Before this I had never seen Sindhu’s game. When I read about her in the newspaper, respect for her automatically increased multi folded.
Though she lost in the finals, considering the kind of facilities we have in INDIA, she has achieved beyond the expectations. Here attitude in the game was simply marvelous. Fighting spirit of her was amazing. In all the three sets beginning she was behind by 7 to 8 points, but she did come back with Great Spirit. Till last point she never gave up. If I compare both the finalists, Marina was little better in her smashes and that got her gold. Otherwise Sindhu played equally well. There were very few unforced errors. Kind of aggression Sindhu showed, many of us really felt goose bumps.
Commitment from her and her family is fantastic. Her father has taken 8 months leave to support his daughter’s preparation for Olympics! Sindhu has not touched mobile phone for 3 months and has not eaten favorite ice cream and sweet curd for 3 months!! I was speechless, when her coach Gopichand had tears of joy for his student’s accomplishment. He mentioned, since 3 months, I have not given her mobile phone, today I am giving back mobile phone to her. Imagine she is just 21 years and without mobile phone for 3 months! When we are in a situation where we can’t live without whatsup, gmail, youtube, facebook, twitter etc even for a minute, that’s great sacrifice, considering her age and amount of influence she will have from her friends, family & media. She used to travel 60 KMs daily at 4AM for the practice!!! When we find it so difficult to get up at 6AM and goto office of 10-15KM to reach at 8.30AM to work in AC cabins!
That’s the beauty of passion with great inner and external expectations!! Except that Olympic gold nothing else seem important to her & her family. When we have such goal in mind, whatever problems we face doesn’t seem important. Thank God, she reached final and we got to know about all her sacrifices and efforts. Otherwise media wouldn’t have revealed all these. Always they are behind winning horses only.
Not just media, everyone is like that only. Except friends, most of the people come to you only when YOU ARE A WINNING HORSE!! That’s the greatest truth of life. And also YOU WILL BE ABLE TO ACHIEVE against ALL ODDS only when YOU
HAVE CLEAR SET GOAL. Since few days, I have been thinking on one thing, with what sense of feeling I would like to retire at the age of 60!! I am not getting any clarity on what is that I want to be by then. At office work, we keep having clear set goals and we keep achieving in spite of all hurdles, because of external expectations set on us.
What is that you want to be known as at 60?
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