Been a long long while since I published something. Here comes the eleventh one in the series and the favorite “The Last Mile” strikes again. I have often had problems getting over the line and this latest one is a classic. Probably takes it all to another level and as most of the times, this also comes from the field of sports.
Post my interview with a corporate giant where I couldn’t crack the final round I thought that I gave it my best shot and probably the competition grabbed it due to their excellent performance. Absolutely acceptable. You know, you come out of an interview and try to analyze what went wrong. Maybe I could have answered that question this way.. or Maybe I should have quoted this..or that example.. or maybe I had the chance if I would have thought a bit more before applying n stuff.. The key takeaways are only that come to you when you think about the interview for the first couple of times. Ultimately you end up over analyzing situations and no positives generally come from the later ones. Anyways, Sorry I digressed from the story.
We had a Table Tennis tournament in our College where we played Doubles against a lesser known team. They played well but I think we played better for most part of it. Where it gets interesting is the end of the 3rd and the Final set. We had 4 match points. YES. 4 f****ng match points and we managed to squander them all. The game went on for 10 deuces. I haven’t played in a game like that ever. And we had a few decent shots in that period also. But we managed to fuck it all up and loose.
This brought the thought of The Last Mile back to me where I have often had problems crossing THAT line. Even though I have been able to do that at times, but now seriously I doubt my ability to do so. I lost the singles to the same guy, but that was coz he played well. We lost the doubles, coz I couldn’t win it.
To bring a perspective to this, if I count all the tournaments, it’s like 70% for me where I couldn’t cross the line despite being in a winning position. That’s what has been playing on my mind and driving me crazy. I better get an answer to it soon enough or else I don’t know what will happen.. :P
Last two months have been close to the toughest time I had been through over a very long time coz of my Injury. Not being able to play and channel the aggression and frustration on positive things, made me very short tempered at times. Being flustered is not what I like but that happened multiple times over that last few months. Probably a win would like this would have helped me get back on my toes, regain some senses, but I think it’ll have to wait a bit.
So a Win is my target now, I don’t know where or what Win, but one has to be around the corner.
As they very famously say: You NEVER win Silver, you ALWAYS LOOSE Gold.
