Feeling Blue

I saw it leaping towards me with child like enthusiasm. My anticipation of meeting it was growing as well. In two seconds it would reach me. But in a flash it was lost. Just like that. But even before I could regret over the missed rendezvous, another one came and hugged me. I gave a delightful laughter. It settled down before wishing a slow good bye. I stood still, waiting to have another such experience. And there were many that I did have. Sometimes I tried to follow them closely, to see the one that was coming, trying to estimate how far they will reach, by their sound or by their height. Sometimes I was right, and sometimes they tricked me.
I don't know how long I stood there. Then even though I could continue like that for hours, I came back and sat down on the soft sand, glistening in the bright Sun. It was blue, as blue as it could be, as far as I could see. I closed my eyes, and sound of the waves felt closer. Saltiness in the air was unmistakable. The vastness of it, made me feel like an insignificant dot. And I stayed like that for a long time, breathing the beautiful Sea around me.
When I had seen it from a height, it had looked so serene and placid. Almost like a huge lake. But from at this close quarter, it still seemed serene, and yet you could feel the strength and potential within it. Who knows what could be churning miles away from the coast, and deep in its belly. As I see the pictures of Tsunami ravaged cities from Japan, the videos of huge waves rushing towards buildings and swallowing them up, I know it's the same sea.

To Err is Human

I sometime wonder whether we really believe it...If that was the case, every error would be called a goof up. Rather we have hundreds of synonyms for it,that even clarify magnitude of the same-- error, mistake, defect, blunder.....and no one laughs them off unlike a goof up. Computer age has brought another word to describe the same (as if there were less already)- bug. And in my coding days, we used to say, "However hard you test the solution, at least one bug will still remain". I guess that is true in life as well. We will always keep on making mistakes. What is worse that the Error Class has so many objects in it that, even if we were to never repeat it, it will still last us a life time. Sometimes it is the caution that we use to prevent repetition of a previous mistake that leads us to another. Don't you sometimes wish we had the eraser to rub off the bad lines

We have all made mistakes, sometimes as small as errors, some time as big as blunders. Sometimes, ages later, blunders seem like goof up and sometimes even errors seem like blunders depending on how they affect our life or that of others.

With the cricket fever on, I could not help wondering what goes on in the mind of a batsman when he gets out or when a bowler is hit for a six.

So every time I make a mistake ( am already thinking that writing this post was a mistake) , I am going to think of Sachin getting out on duck and not care too much about anything else.