He just walked away!

Finally, I picked up the phone to call that gentleman.

I had been avoiding him for last so many days.. for no reason. He was neither a nagging salesman nor a prankster or not even a goon who calls up to threaten you. He was not even a borrower who constantly calls you up for money. He was not at all a nuisance. He was a gentleman. It was me who was on fault.

I was avoiding him and not picking up his calls… was not even replying to his text messages. Simply because, I couldn’t complete the work that he had assigned me for. I could buy some time. But that was already done. He had certain plans on mind on the basis of what I was going to do for him. He had his deadlines set and I was stretching them too far unnecessarily. The poor man helplessly tried my number which I didn’t answer.

I had nothing to say. I had nothing to confess. I couldn’t complete the assignment in time was the only truth and I had no courage to face it. That was the only reason I was testing the patience of that gentleman.

But today, I picked up the phone to call him. I was going to beg his pardon for ill treating him. It was not my greatness. This another gentleman prompted me to do so. His single act injected that courage in me to face the fact.

He stepped in with billions of expectations and a cool head on his shoulders. In fact, he was also eager to achieve a new milestone on this day. His confident moves were intending clearly that he was going to touch that enviable golden spot that day. But destiny had some different plans. That unexpected delivery took a thin edge of his bat. The sound was so weak that the umpire standing at the 22 feet distance couldn’t hear it. The loud half hearted appeal was denied by the umpire. The disappointed bowler was visibly unhappy. Obviously, he had almost grabbed the most priced reward which he could have cherished for a lifetime. But, the god just walked away.. calmly and firmly. He knew that the ball did take the edge of his bat and rested in the pair of gloves behind the stumps cleanly without touching the ground. In the 21^st century people may call him a fool for being a non opportunist. He could have stayed there till the decision came from the upstairs. But he just walked away leaving all of us disappointed.. but proud.. proud to be the worshipers of the great god.

He not only raised the grace of the game, but also prompted the spineless guys like me, who couldn’t gather the courage to face the problem.

He walked away and the next moment I picked up the phone to call that gentleman..

GODS MUST BE SORRY!

Once again we proved that you don’t deserve us, God! In fact, we should have decorated your bravery or at least could show you that we tried. But we did nothing, as usual. Once again we failed to take you closer to your dream or we don’t want to do so. You spent your whole life giving us pride and confidence. You did it for the sake of the pure love for what you have been doing and we always thought it was your duty. After serving us for more than two decades, you saw a little dream and shared it with us. We too promised you that we will make it true for you. But are we really worth of even sharing?

We have been doing this for years. Whenever you accomplish something great like this, we give up trying to take it further. Somewhere, I am feeling that you are responsible for this. You spoilt our habit of relying on you. We have been watching you making everyone awestruck. We have been so busy admiring your matchless enthusiasm, effortless looking skills, out of the world persona, godly humanity and that every single thing making you extra ordinary. In this whole process, we forgot our duty to learn from you and put our at least 10 percent to add to your glorious performance. But we failed.. almost each time and you made us lazy, God!

And then the-anti god factor kept on repeating that ‘you perform, but we don’t achieve’. And we get busy arguing about your greatness which has been proven for more than 1000 times.

But you were god and will always remain the way you are. You never bothered of us or the anti ‘you’ factor. You kept on doing great for us and kept on learning from your mistakes.. silently and effectively. You don’t talk, your weapon does. But till when, GOD? Till when will you keep doing such great things which will go in vein just because of us and yet forgiving us?

I am feeling strongly that the god sitting there above has made a blunder. HE has sent YOU in the place where there are people like us whom you don’t deserve at all. We are the people who have always let you down, but still you loved us. Even those GODs must be sorry to send you, our own god, here amongst us.

Sorry Sachin.. (I know you’ll forgive us.. the way you have been doing for years)!