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SACHINISM INSIDE OUT- E MAGAZINE - AUGUST EDITION
August 15,
2009
SACHINISM
Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar , If you have watched the game
like I have, the name evokes a thousand emotions. If you
choose to go by what international cricketers say, you'll have
to think that he evoked an equal sense of awe from opponents
and fans .alike. What is it then, about this person, that even
when he is going low, and most of the, so called, "experts"
given .up on him, his contemporaries still believe, his fans still
cheer. Is it that they know him better? For the former it's
.quite possible, but the latter? Obviously it has all to do with
blind faith. Faith in the man they call God, as insane as it .may
sound. It's obvious that this man is just another man, a mortal
like you and me, just gifted with something we .can only
dream of! The gift which made people like Bradman and
Richards take notice. And notice, not after two .decades at the
top, but notice after barely one year into his debut season! At
the face of it, one would be inclined to .say it was the genius
which was so evident. After all, its not everyday that a sixteen
year old hits a veteran leg .spinner for a hat trick of sixes! That
seems so long ago now. Maybe because it indeed was a long
time ago. Eighteen .years. It's been a long journey. A journey
which has seen him spend three very important phases of his
life playing .international sport. His teenage, youth, and now
his middle-age. Taking the good with the bad, learning at every
.step, with nothing but the goal in mind. It had "success story" written all over it even twenty years ago, when he was
.a fourteen year old boy making his Ranji Trophy debut. Yes, he is the greatest youth icon that our country has
.produced.
Yet it's not the enormity of his achievements on the cricket field, which sets him apart. It's the way in which he has
achieved it. His records will not last for ever. Some young turk or turks will eventually get to them, no doubt. But will
they be broken in the manner that they were set? That's a very tough possibility. The very fact that these records
were attained while dealing with stardom, public scrutiny (the kind world leaders would rarely face), criticism and
acclaim, at an age when most people just get started makes him incomparable to any living mortal. The legacy that
he would eventually leave behind for his fans and followers, thus, is not the records, but something even greater. It's
what defines Tendulkar to them, to us. It's not the destination, but the path. This is what makes him appear akin to
God for his "followers". A genius, yes. But God? Still, it sounds as insane as it did before! But, now, it becomes
important to see it from their point of view. God, not for any supposed super human capabilities or immortality. God,
not because of his seemingly impossible achievements. But God because in all his time under the limelight he has
refrained from displaying any sort of human weaknesses. The kind his two greatest contemporaries, Brian Lara and
Shane Warne, often fell for. It wasn't their fault. It's the sort of temptation that fame and fortune brings with it, and
ordinary men can do nothing but bend in front of it. And the fact the Tendulkar could makes him an example for what
"we all want to become", to quote Andrew Symonds. And if that perfection is not divine, then I don't know what is!
For a lad who made his Ranji Trophy debut at 14, he has been a household name for quite some time. For twenty
years he has seen it all. Highs, or lows, they cease to surprise him any more. He has attained a place in not only
Indian cricket, but in world cricket, which only few like Bradman and Sobers have attained. Thus it is sad, that when
he finally does hang up his boots, his greatest achievement, and his greatest gift to us all who admire him, is in
danger of going totally unnoticed. The achievement that should be held aloft at highest pedestal one can afford him,
the lesson that he has taught us all, the lesson that every rising star should follow, something his fans, or followers,
like to call Sachinism! To stare fear in the eye, to dare and defy any restrictions posed by a challenge, to keep a level
head no matter what, to not get distracted, to focus on nothing but the goal, and to give a hundred percent to
whatever you do and do it sincerely, so that you don't have any regrets when its finally over, and the curtain comes
down. Because nothing is impossible. Because there is no limit to what you can do. Because to be the best is all that
matters. Because every adversity is another challenge, and every challenge another opportunity.
When Sachin is at crease, we sit with full of relief ; Sachin is God: Sachinism teaches us One Nation n One Belief
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