Feeling Tendulkar

It was unbelievable for me when my Facebook status update informing about my first semester result received spontaneous replies from more than 50 online friends. Moreover, for whole day, I was busy in receiving congratulations from office colleagues, seniors, friends, classmates, teachers, HoD; even the office clerk, too, congratulated me. Needless to say, my family members were all in joyous mood. Initially, each one asked for the party, and later, everyone wished me to continue achieving similar success in remaining three semesters, too.

With one small success, the expectation for three more and even bigger successes got created. Directly or indirectly, a new responsibility of maintaining the university topper position automatically came to me, and I accepted it as a proud crown. This achievement made me realize that there are many people around me who are watching me silently. They observe me, think about me and very rarely – comment too. This feeling is even pleasant than being a topper.

Now the person, who wants to repeat the first semester success for remaining three semesters, more desperately than any other person around, is myself. How beautiful was it to receive message after message of congratulations that day! I don’t want to miss it in any semester ahead. Yes, my success is very small, but it inspired me to shoulder bigger responsibility. And, I accepted it as if I was waiting for it. Success serves responsibility and makes it look easier to shoulder.

Why only success? Failure, too, serves a responsibility to overpower and emerge. On every positive and negative turn, life only serves a new responsibility. It’s like completing tasks in TV game. Clearing one level takes you to another to face bigger challenges, tougher obstacles.

Bigger success gives bigger responsibility while biggest success gives biggest one!

Every time when he walks out in the middle with his heavy bat, he looks at the sky. In fact the sky itself stares at master blaster. The sky is full of expectations. These expectations come from those who love him, follow him, and worship him.  Whenever he scores a milestone, their faith strengthens. If he fails, they disappoint. This is the biggest success serving biggest responsibility. Sachin Tendulkar shoulders it.

 Many Greats say, Tendulkar knows how to stay away from this pressure of expectations, others defer saying that he falls prey to this pressure. Is it possible to stay completely away from what others are feeling, thinking, and talking about you?

I don’t think so. And why should we keep away from it? After all, living with others is living for others. This is what our culture teaches. Let me take every compliment and every congratulation comment as a new responsibility and every success and failure as an entry into new level of this game.

Tendulkar must have been doing this only all these years while looking straight into the sky of expectations.