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Life never stops bowling

In december last year someone said, "welcome to adulthood, it only goes downhill from here". I didn't really give much thought to it. But lately as I reflect on the new relization that has dawned on me, those words keep coming back. Life feels like a cricket field lately. Especially when you reach your last year of college. All your childhood and teenage life, while playing gully cricket, all you can think of and want to do is playing in the big stadium. But when the upgrade happens, you get nervous. It feels scary. What makes it more scary is that, life is the bowler. And when you think it specialiazes only in spinning, it will start throwing you yokers. And when you just get used to yokers, it sends you some googly balls. If you think it has only three tricks up its sleeves trust me you are mistaken. 



Life keeps upgrading it's bowling skills. And if you think someday you'll be in the stands or on the bowling side, here is something I realised and I would want to share. You will be in the stands and bowling in the field of other people you know or don't know. But in your life's field, you will always be the batter. oh! and if you find those little commercial breaks in between, then you should definitely take full advantage of. Because life gives you those breaks intentionally. It's because life knows that you need it. Many a times we choose to give up on the little breaks or moments in life, being sure that there is a big break. But here's a truth: the next ball you face may get you out.  





While you think the commercial breaks are the only thing you got. Life grants us the strategic timeout. You can always decide to pause, call timeout and strategize. Many a times we think we can go on without a break or you don't need a break. But trust me, if you don't take the strategic timeout, life will start engulfing you, or lets say you will reach a point of burnout. Sometimes the realization hits too late, and it becomes very gruesome. The strategic timeout is not just for you to take a break; it's for you to strategize for the future. Sometimes situations force us to make choices that leave us unfulfilled. This strategic timeout is for you to re-evaluate those choices and decide if you want to take a different route or stick to the one you took. The only way I can emphasis the importance of this strategic timeout with what I was told by my teacher, she said "only dead fish move with the current"


When you are on this field of life, just do your part. Don't give up; for someday the ball will stike the wicket and the decision will be out, and you will have to leave the field. Hence till you are on the field, make the most of it and all those breaks. And all those people who come running on the field with that bottle of water or towel or anything you need, those who show up in the stadium to cheer you. And most importantly ignore the ones who are there to see you fail. You can either use their words to fuel you, or fool you.








                                                                  
 - Alloysha Dias 
  





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