But I am not here to talk about the places where I got totally drunk or did some unusual stuff. I am talking about my Life where I went behind the wrong things over and over again. Why 24 years of a man's life is not enough to set things in the right path? How I never bothered about the stuffs I learnt in school? How I chose the wrong choices when I had a chance to take the right one?
Everyone says each child has a special talent. But even as a child I didn't exploit myself to search my inside. What can I say... I was in to cartoons like most of the kids and was very much fond of art but I only took the first step, before I could climb up, I was brought back to the ground because It started affecting my academics. But still my friends appreciated some of my drawings and asked me to continue and improve on my sketching. But I didn't... Probably one of the starting of things to come!!
As I grew up, I didn't have much friends who would play with me. All I had by my side was my sister and cousins. My sister used to go to music classes and I was made to tag along with her. I started learning keyboard and I was even gifted one by my parents. I just started to learn to play it but by the time I could master it, I lost interest in it and suddenly gained a little interest in painting again. But that too didn't last for more than a year because I started gaining interest in sports especially cricket.
Cricket became my favourite sport. I wanted to start playing but I was never let to play, I was like a mere 12'th man in my class team. Every weekend my friends play a match, but I would again be called only because I had a cricket kit right from a bat to wicket keeper's gloves. I would never be a part of the game. I would be sent to the boundary line and make me watch the game like I am some spectator. And one day I find my kit to be lost when I left my kit to be watched. My heart-broke because I remember how I used to plead my Mom in getting those stuff. Thanks to my friends, I never bothered to play cricket with them for a while after that. Later, I started going to Tennis classes which allowed me to play :) but that was short-lived because of some inter-district tournament defeat. I played tennis for about 6-8 months. Then slowly I started gaining back interest in cricket again.
One of my friend Tarun Jain apologized when I told about how I was left-out and gave me a chance in the team but using me as a wicket keeper and at times even made me an opening batsman. But slowly I started feeling cricket wasn't my game but still played for the fun of it and actually started getting better as a batsman when I was pushed in to the lower order and also did well as a part-time medium bowler. But that was only till school. By the time school was over, all we could do was play cricket at our very homes but it was fun till it lasted.
(to be continued...)
