INSPIRING EXIT.... DRAVID THE SOLID WALL

Do you know how do you feel when a watchman in the apartment or an office boy in the office or anyone reporting to you doesn’t acknowledge you by either greet, or any gesture? Naturally, neglected, hurt or some negative feeling surfaces inside you.. Unknown expectation is built up as most of us have this need to feel wanted and recognized as someone bigger, better and powerful, whatever the dimensions be. Small time artists, popular faces who are used to giving autographs or being surrounded by people, feel very in secured if the number of eyes balls on them is reduced on a particular day.

Most good women go into depression if they are not complimented enough on a day to day basis after being used to some amount of praise dosage. Film stars, and all celebrities from all walks of life get paranoid if they don’t get due attention. Often, either they are denied or they are getting in abundance to the extent of being nuisance. But the absence of it is surely felt. All attention, all acknowledgement, all recognition is nothing but power equation. Every person needs to be fed with some power and the quota varies. We can give names to the complex needs of such nature but they exist and they are as necessary as food, oxygen and money.

The power of success is not only addictive but had made people desperate. Quite a many have resorted to violence or tragedy when they were either robbed of this or when this came to an end. It happens more with women whose fame, success; recognition also has to do with handling the beauty which withers with age. Celebrity status is the most difficult curse in one sense as eternally it is a struggle to maintain and uphold the same and yet stay balanced and calm. Time, trend and change cause so much turmoil to all these people. That is why, many people do everything to latch on and compromise to any extent the values, the core qualities and the basic elements of living. The ones who come above are the real heroes and are the ones to look up to and learn and admire.

Rahul dravid, definitely not my kind of cricketer in terms of presence and influence on and off field, but he  has tremendously inspired me on his retirement. He could have hung around for easily another 2 years. Everything was still left in him,  the stamina, technique and temperament. The announcement has reflected his approach and understanding of core essence of life. There is clear absence of greed and tremendous amount of detachment. His gratitude and gesture of thanking everyone in public on his successful cricketing life, has only increased my respect for him. He has clearly brought out the SANSKARAS that he believed all his life and is so austere. He was never ostentatious; he could hardly be provoked and got into controversy. He was a silent team person and had terrific inner strength. His every quality on and off field has to be highlighted, talked about and learned by all sports persons in our country. He had so many ideal qualities that, it all got together and helped him take this decision and made him a real life hero. His learning all his life was not just attributed to cricket. The decision and the way he took it amply proves that he is an absolutely balanced guy with tremendous inner strength and is totally grounded as  human and he has not let any of his success get into his head. He is an epitome of a perfect gentleman who thinks far beyond the normal achievements and recognitions and has mastered the art of practising the basic human necessity of conquering the self and weaknesses.

I salute him for achieving as a human being what one needs to, by using a vehicle called cricketing success. The same can ruin a person and make him a poor individual. There are thousands of such people who are celebrities and who never evolve as good humans after achieving success in their field. But Rahul is one such rare, extraordinary human who has set a new standard by this great decision. Hopefully, the other senior cricketers should take a cue from him and not thwart the opportunities of several youngsters for their personal milestones. 

The end of the saga signifies the respectability that he lent to the indian cricket, the best vibes he got into the dressing rooms and that silent killing presence amidst the giants like sachin, sehwag, ganguly, etc is something that i feel like imbibing in my real world. He is a true and an ideal indian in the way he conducted himself and has increased the respectability of everyone. The ends usually makes more loud the understanding of the character of the person , as more often than not we take the silent, modest performers for granted. 

No one cricketer has won such rare writings and feed back on his retirement than dravid.  He is indeed a monk, a spiritual leader who did his karma in the most ideal manner