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Sachin-My Hero

The word Hero in the “Oxford Dictionary” means “In mythology and legend, a man, often of divine ancestry, who is endowed with great courage and strength, celebrated for his bold exploits, and favoured by the gods.” I agree with the meaning but I am sure the Oxford Team can make it more succinct by changing the meaning to “Sachin” because for me Sachin is an obvious Synonym to Hero! I hardly remember the first instance when I saw Sachin on Television. What I remember is that when I first lifted a thing called “Bat”, I tried my best to play like sachin. I even scribbled the name of Sachin all over my Bat!!. He is the reason why I started watching Cricket. Though he has given me a lot of sleepless nights on the overseas tours, it was all worth it because watching Geniuses like Sachin bat inspires you to do it over and over again and convert it into a habit! Time has passed on but there are things which never change. Sachin is a phenomenon to me which happens once in a life time. We all kn

Confusion!

"Confusion" A child is born and so are the endless Expectations. The first day a child is born, one can hear the murmur of the people surrounding him of whether he is as beautiful as his parents. The Nurse would not deny herself a chance to say that “Aapka beta Engineer ya Doctor banega”(Your child would become an Engineer Or a Doctor ). We know and assume that an infant doesn’t understand whatever is being said, but what if he could grasp what is being said!!!. Nothing can be as scary for a child as this in the whole world. Whether we accept it or not this is the way almost all the families welcome their new born. The Confusion or I might say the disaster is born here. The Child grows and so does the different aspirations of him. The first time he watches a movie, he would want to become a Hero(An Actor). The next time if he watches a cricket match he would want to become a Cricketer and so on…The list is countless till the time decision making becomes a must! So do most of