Health of Indian Test Cricket and the optimism that it still carries within itself

All is not lost
4-1 is not the true reflection of how this Indian Team played
Yes there were lots of opportunities to turn it the other way around but then the home teams always have that extra edge over the visitors and the contemporary cricket is going like this only.
One thing that should be taken care of that this team(management) needs one calmer head in that dressing room because at times you feel the intensity that the Indian Skipper carries with himself can sometimes have a huge bearing on other players and they don't seem to carry that intensity and ultimately succumb to that and crumble in pressure situations.
Saying that one should also consider the symptom of meek surrender that every Indian Test Team carried with themselves had gone
You don't expect this Indian Team to get steamrolled.
Plenty of positives but still lots to ponder upon.
Indian Cricket at standstill only to jump new heights 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳

Life + i Vulnerability

There are people in the world, who are just wrong, and then there are the masses of population that are right, or at the very least they lie in the veil of between. I on the other hand, do not belong to any group. I don’t exist. It’s not that I don’t have substance; I have a body like everyone else. I can feel the fire when it burns against my skin, the rain when it caresses my face and the breeze as it fingers my hair. I have all the senses that other people do. I am just empty, inside. I do not concern myself with my inability to feel such comfort amidst humans (other than with very few friends and family), but, rather, am simply thankful that at least dogs exist, and I’m humbly aware of how much less a person I’d be – how less a human – if they did not exist. And then there are always clever people about to promise you that everything will be all right if only you put yourself out a bit... And you get carried away, you suffer so much from the things that exist that you ask for what can't ever exist. Now look at me, I was well away dreaming like a fool and seeing visions of a nice friendly life on good terms with everybody, and off I went, up into the clouds. And when you fall back into the mud it hurts a lot. No! None of it was true, none of those things we thought we could see existed at all. All that was really there was still more misery-- oh yes! as much of that as you like-- and bullets into the bargain! 

An Open Letter to My Grandmother

While I know you will never physically see this, I hope that some how, you'll know about this article, and be able to know what it says, and to know how much I miss you. I know that everyone says that their grandmother is/was the greatest. But you, you were the epitome of what an amazing grandmother(Mummy) was.

I've always felt that my inner extrovert personality is like you. You were opinionated, stubborn, and at times difficult, but you were also by far, the most compassionate and generous person I ever knew. I'm equally as opinionated, and stubborn about things. And like you, I stand up for what I believe in, and for these traits, I'm thankful.

I think the relationships that grandparents have with their grandchildren is always so different than the relationship children have with their parents, at least, this is how it was for me. I'm so incredibly grateful for the bond that we had, and the closeness we had, especially the frankness that I shared with you during my growing days has helped me immensely to become a sorted individual.
Fighting with the world of diseases and still able to overcome it each and every day and the outrageous willpower that you possessed. I am still trying hard to assimilate all this but I have a long distance to cover.
When you died, I took it so hard, it was the hardest thing to happen in my adult life, and while I'm an emotional person, I took your passing the hardest time of my life. I think it's because, for the first time in my adult life, someone who meant so much too me was gone. I didn't realize how much you meant to me until you were gone.

I'm sorry you won't be at my wedding, if I ever get married. I'm sorry I'll never hear your hilarious stories, and I'm sorry I wasn't able too see you one last time or to tell you I love you one last time.

So to you Mummy, I say thank you. Thank You for being the incredible woman you were, I'm so thankful too have had the relationship we did and while I'm better since you passed, and it's been a little over a year, it's still hard. But I know, you're always there, and you'll always guide me and protect me.

Love your ever grateful grandson.

Hey there! Hope you're doing well. It's been long that I met you or for that matter, spoke to you. I don't know why but I've been thinking a lot about you, of late. I'm sure you're wondering why I'd even bother thinking about you. There's a long story behind it all and today, I thought it's about time to share it with you. Eventually, I realized that you and I are very different from one another. I loved you but somewhere deep within, I always knew that you didn't love me back. Your actions clearly stated that you took me for a friend and that was it, nothing more than that. I took time to accept the fact that you didn't love me back and that I can never make you love me but with time, I was okay. I started maintaining a distance from you because staying around you would only mean that I'd be reminded of the love that I had for you. You know, my love for you, and life, has taught me this that you can't force someone to love you back and you shouldn't ever do that. It's okay to love someone who doesn't love you back! We grow up thinking that someone who we love has to love us back. There's no hard and fast rule. Love anyway has no rules.It just happens. I'm glad I learned that. Somewhere deep within, a part of me would always love. I'll always have a soft corner for you! You're special to me! Wishing you the best today and always!
Much love, Someone who'd always love you!