Cobwebs of the Mind!

The last few days have been prime examples of Cobwebs, Human Mind, Successes and Failures, both within the world of Blue Caramel as well as out of it.

Starting with events that have happened outside Blue Caramel, being a cricket buff, I would again quote accomplishments from the field of cricket. Sachin Tendulkar, the god of Indian cricket became the first cricketer ever to score 100 international 100s, when he scored 114 runs against Bangladesh in the Asian Cup on 16th March2012. Even with the special talent that he has and the number of centuries he has scored over the years, Sachin remained stuck on 99 centuries for more than an year and this fact kept him perturbed, which he himself acknowledged. But the irony of this hundredth international hundred was that it was one of the most scratchy and the second slowest 100 that Sachin has ever made and India actually lost the match against the "minnows". But you could see the real maestro at work in India's demolition of arch rivals Pakistan, in the subsequent match.

This brings me back to the title of the blog, "Cobwebs of the Mind". The inability to get to his 100th 100 was weighing so much in his mind that Sachin's natural attacking game took a backseat. The more he tried to get to this landmark, the more he failed. Maybe for the first time ever, he started to feel the pressure, a creation of the expectations of billions of cricket lovers and also his own. Cobwebs started developing in his mind.

It is but a human tendency that when things are not falling in place and the going starts getting harder, the mind gets cluttered resulting in the cobwebs getting developed and re-emphasized. The only way to get out of this phase is to remain true to one's self, trusting one's own ability and not loosing focus of the larger picture and more importantly keep working towards the ultimate goal. Sachin just did that after his struggle with the Cobwebs of his Mind. I am sure this achievement would be valued by him, like no other achievement that he has accomplished in his illustrious career because of the magnitude of the struggle that he had to undergo.

Many Blue Caramelers too would have encountered the cobwebs of the mind more often than none. But to emerge victorious from shortcomings, distortions of the mind, one has to be always TRUE and HONEST to one's self and the organization, in any circumstance and only then would the ultimate goal be realized. It is only a solid foundation that can support a strong building and if the foundation is weak, the building will collapse!