Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Success is Temporary... Failure is Permanent

Everytime I feel happy, content and popular with my friends or my team mates, I read an article that appeared in the Times of India on Dec 15th 2005. It was the end of the Sri Lanka tour, and Ganguly had been dropped for the third test, as well as for the forthcoming series of Pakistan and South Africa.

Success is Temporary... Failure is Permanent. As long as you accept and live by that, life will be much easier to take in your stride.

Here are some snippets of that article...

As India marched to victory on Wednesday afternoon, Sourav Ganguly found himself far away from the huddle. Again and again. Every time a Lankan wicket fell, he had to trudge all the way from the boundary to join his quickly converging team mates. But by the time he reached them, the huddle had invariably taken a firm shape. Each time, he had to literally break it up to create a place for himself in the celebrations. It didn't augur too well for him.

About an hour after the 188-run win, the signs turned out to be prophetic: Ganguly learned that there was no place for him, neither in the huddle nor in the middle any more.

Ganguly might have known that the end was not too far; but he surely didn't expect it to be so near either.

The board is finalising its list of elite players to be signed up and this move might see him getting struck off from there too. Or if life isn't too cruel, he will find himself in Grade B or C, at the least.

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