I have seen nothing like it. I have never encountered something so powerful as that. Everything else seems petty. I have always heard people say "hope is the only thing that is more powerful than fear." Now I know what it means.
My mind knows that the chance is gone. My heart screams out that reaching the semi-finals is impossible. They had to score 10 runs in the last 4 overs with 4 wickets in hand. It was a cake. It was as simple as breathing. But still, when a wicket was taken, when the batsman was beaten, the heart jumps up till the throat, does a somersault and leaps into the mouth. Something comes alive inside. A light in the darkest of times. A small ray of hope. A fragment of positive energy. This energy over powers every other feeling, this feeling over takes all others and takes such a deep root inside of us that shattering it is close to impossible.
When 121 was crossed, when Virat Kohli rubbed the tears off his face, when Yuvraj screamed out in joy after picking up two wickets, when we knew that the inevitable was going to happen, that feeling, that energy, that ray of hope, just turns into a heavy ache and presses us down, makes us feel like we are carrying the burden of the whole world. This is what hope does and this is what the final acceptance of truth and the inevitable does.
Till 121 was reached, till I heard the commentators say the words "...And Pakistan are through to the Semis", that bubble of feeling, that fragment of positive energy was jumping up and down, telling me that it was possible, we would make it.
And that is what hope does to us. That is what positive vibe does to us. It overpowers all the other feelings, all the other possibilities.
Aishwarya Kumar.
My mind knows that the chance is gone. My heart screams out that reaching the semi-finals is impossible. They had to score 10 runs in the last 4 overs with 4 wickets in hand. It was a cake. It was as simple as breathing. But still, when a wicket was taken, when the batsman was beaten, the heart jumps up till the throat, does a somersault and leaps into the mouth. Something comes alive inside. A light in the darkest of times. A small ray of hope. A fragment of positive energy. This energy over powers every other feeling, this feeling over takes all others and takes such a deep root inside of us that shattering it is close to impossible.
When 121 was crossed, when Virat Kohli rubbed the tears off his face, when Yuvraj screamed out in joy after picking up two wickets, when we knew that the inevitable was going to happen, that feeling, that energy, that ray of hope, just turns into a heavy ache and presses us down, makes us feel like we are carrying the burden of the whole world. This is what hope does and this is what the final acceptance of truth and the inevitable does.
Till 121 was reached, till I heard the commentators say the words "...And Pakistan are through to the Semis", that bubble of feeling, that fragment of positive energy was jumping up and down, telling me that it was possible, we would make it.
And that is what hope does to us. That is what positive vibe does to us. It overpowers all the other feelings, all the other possibilities.
Aishwarya Kumar.
Beautiful :') Hope and faith are the things that we live by :") Amazing really.
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Paro
Yes, thank you. :)
DeleteLovely write up. And so true. In the words of President Snow, 'Hope, the only thing stronger than fear'. Today I understood the true meaning of it.
ReplyDeleteThank you. Ya, same here.
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