Dancing in the Rain

Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it is about learning how to dance in the rain – so read one of my friend’s gtalk status. The obviousness of the truth simply cannot be denied. I will go ahead and make one of those statements which might come back to bite me in the back but here it is – Adversity is a man’s best friend. If you are having a dilly dolly ride all your life then you never realize what it takes to make a comeback when the going gets tough. Why is it important? Let’s face it the ride ain’t going to be as smooth your entire life and you need to have that ability in you to fight back when it is not. This is why Roger Federer is not the greatest of all time according to me and this is why there is utmost respect for Lance Armstrong and Sourav Ganguly.

Now, I will go back to what I do best, that is ramble on about myself and bore everyone attempting to read the blog to death. If you can thrive in adversity the rest of the path becomes easy. In this blog I will primarily write about a rivalry which has been a constant source of entertainment for everyone in the group and has been a part of our lives ever since the first day I met him. It was probably our third meeting and we had gone to play pool and Subhojit Da challenged me to a singles match. What happened thereafter was history!! Though after a few ups and downs Sadhu urf Subhojit Da had taken an unassailable lead the verbal conflicts which punctuated the rivalry heightened the stakes for both of us involved. What started off as a rivalry in Pool was then taken forward to Cricinfo, Counter Strike and then the rivalry was so hot that we had to devise an event known as HumpKing to decide who the better man is. I will just take a minute to describe what is HumpKing. In HumpKing every contestant gets to pick a game which is his forte and everyone else competes in that game in a league format. Points for every game are allotted and finally the winner is awarded according to the cumulative score.

Now, I will come back to the title and describe exactly what lead me to talk so much in details about a rivalry which has got nothing to do with the title of the blog. Well, here is the thing as much as I hate saying this but I have been at the losing end of the duel more often than not. Every time I come up with a seemingly full proof plan to beat him he comes up with something so out of the box so unpredictable that you can just stand and admire. Competing with Sadhu is a thunder storm I had never experienced in my life but every time it makes me feel like going one better. This rivalry has made me firmly believe that there are no points for second place in this world and in the want to best Sadhu I have bettered myself. I have been bruised and devastated by this rivalry at points but never have I shied away and at the end of the day I feel more confident every time I go out there to face any problems whatsoever. We all need a Sadhu in our lives and hopefully Sadhu will admit he needs a Souptik in his life to test his limits.

Anyway here’s Souptik signing off hoping this blog will at least make you feel like facing a storm no matter how humiliating the results are. At the end of the day even if ends justify the means, you will never reach a different end if you don’t mean to.