This was my third year and third time i am participating in an event called Triathlon. This event would require all the stamina and energy your body can possibly provide to you.There is sheer joy in just completing the race,but there is happiness unbounded if you finish it in the top 5 places.This year was no different except that i was the captain, and i had to honor my captaincy.With that sole perception in my mind and a "I play to win" attitude i bettered my position, won a silver and that was it.Heaven.Hell.Heaven because i finished it with an impressive performance and hell because i was so dead tired after the 45:20:45 minutes of complete exhaustion.
For the novices, Triathlon in IIT Madras is an event consisting of 500m swimming,8 km of cycling and 3.3 km of running, at a stretch and without a break. Early morning 6:15 the event started and i was swimming.I suddenly realize my thigh muscles stiffen, i was having pain in my muscles and then out of the blue my strength in the arms was sapping out. I was so desperate to fight. Just relaxed my mind and let my body do the working.It went on, as if it was infinite time..Finally finished swimming and came out with my swimsuit and put on my shorts, shoes and got a crash helmet on my head and started cycling.There were people who already were ahead of me.I did cycling slowly but steadily.Finally got some lead and maintained it to the end.Running was the most difficult part, with no energy left and legs unable to carry my body weight i slowly trudged on and on....and as people say, rest was history. won my silver medal for the 3rd consecutive time.[:)] And i still have got my final year to take one more chance for this IIT lifetime.
It was sheer joy on completing and winning.
Dwelling in that joy for today....[:)]
signing off...
Sunday, April 06, 2008
Friday, April 04, 2008
Alter-ego......
This post is a story of a boy..whom i have been with, for my entire life ...
This guy was just any other normal fella who was well to do in all aspects and was living life as it comes on.I say life isn't smooth for anyone, it has got its own plans and troubles to make man a humble being.So for this guy, life wasn't smooth either. Come 5th grade, all his grades started dropping.He became a continuous failure in his academics. He was chided,bullied and teased by his friends.Back then he was a fragile , weakling, who knew not how to fight back. He just waited for his day,which needless to say seemed to elude him for years to come. Finally life has a twist in his life, and then lo and behold he started improving in his acads, but for this he had to bear a heavy loss of life, for which he regrets all through his life. He studied, rallied, put up with the bullies, won many a teachers hearts and continued to live.
But all his troubles weren't gone.They increased,the pressure to perform in his studies increased.Knowing this the poor guy toiled harder than ever.His goal was to make it into IIT.Poor chap, IIT was his dream, and he worked hard for it,day and night like all his remaining peers. He even had a place for love in the form a girl who was his classmate since his childhood.This poor guy was so madly in love with her, to him she was the world.But he never expressed it and has his priorities set.
Years passed and he was writing the JEE exam and after the results he was escalated with joy unbound to see he has finally achieved his short term goal.He was the talk of the family, and friends.He could hear remarks such as "This dumb guy who was a constant failure, made it to IIT??".He felt euphoric to hear such discussions.Lo, this revelry didn't last long.Soon he was transported to the portals of the country's top engineering institute. This guy was not always fit, had all types of problems.He couldnt play a game.He was never popular outside his study circle.He couldnt help much except to resolve to play games and master some of them.
Life at IIT has changed him so much, he is now totally what he actually wanted to be.His normal self.He started playing a lot of sports, worked out hard to reduce the extra kgs he had put on over the years.He finally learns to live life without fear, became a bully himself, strong and fearsome.He became a good sports person.He won his lady love.Became popular among his friends.Girls liked him.He owed everything to the great twist he had in his early life, which has put in all the extra "thingy" in him to go this far.
But still his troubles persist, but this time he has learnt to deal them with exemplary courage and a never say die fighting spirit.
This guy is my best chum, my alter-ego.He isnt so great to be written a story on, but surely he is one of the everyday few who fights troubles head on.Everyone has his own troubles, nevertheless to say, but this person i have known him for his whole life time and since its been a frustrating day for me, i just put it in my blog.
This guy is " The guy in the mirror".[:P]...sorry for all the hooting and boasting...[:)]...all for the pleasure of writing....
This guy was just any other normal fella who was well to do in all aspects and was living life as it comes on.I say life isn't smooth for anyone, it has got its own plans and troubles to make man a humble being.So for this guy, life wasn't smooth either. Come 5th grade, all his grades started dropping.He became a continuous failure in his academics. He was chided,bullied and teased by his friends.Back then he was a fragile , weakling, who knew not how to fight back. He just waited for his day,which needless to say seemed to elude him for years to come. Finally life has a twist in his life, and then lo and behold he started improving in his acads, but for this he had to bear a heavy loss of life, for which he regrets all through his life. He studied, rallied, put up with the bullies, won many a teachers hearts and continued to live.
But all his troubles weren't gone.They increased,the pressure to perform in his studies increased.Knowing this the poor guy toiled harder than ever.His goal was to make it into IIT.Poor chap, IIT was his dream, and he worked hard for it,day and night like all his remaining peers. He even had a place for love in the form a girl who was his classmate since his childhood.This poor guy was so madly in love with her, to him she was the world.But he never expressed it and has his priorities set.
Years passed and he was writing the JEE exam and after the results he was escalated with joy unbound to see he has finally achieved his short term goal.He was the talk of the family, and friends.He could hear remarks such as "This dumb guy who was a constant failure, made it to IIT??".He felt euphoric to hear such discussions.Lo, this revelry didn't last long.Soon he was transported to the portals of the country's top engineering institute. This guy was not always fit, had all types of problems.He couldnt play a game.He was never popular outside his study circle.He couldnt help much except to resolve to play games and master some of them.
Life at IIT has changed him so much, he is now totally what he actually wanted to be.His normal self.He started playing a lot of sports, worked out hard to reduce the extra kgs he had put on over the years.He finally learns to live life without fear, became a bully himself, strong and fearsome.He became a good sports person.He won his lady love.Became popular among his friends.Girls liked him.He owed everything to the great twist he had in his early life, which has put in all the extra "thingy" in him to go this far.
But still his troubles persist, but this time he has learnt to deal them with exemplary courage and a never say die fighting spirit.
This guy is my best chum, my alter-ego.He isnt so great to be written a story on, but surely he is one of the everyday few who fights troubles head on.Everyone has his own troubles, nevertheless to say, but this person i have known him for his whole life time and since its been a frustrating day for me, i just put it in my blog.
This guy is " The guy in the mirror".[:P]...sorry for all the hooting and boasting...[:)]...all for the pleasure of writing....
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