Never give up hope..!!

Injuries have followed the Master like a shadow all through his career.

      After he overcame with his injury in the year 1999, next major injury struck him in 2004. He got a partial tear in the muscles surrounding the left elbow which left Sachin in pain. This kind of injury is seen more with the tennis players and hence it is termed as Tennis elbow. Not only in Tennis, but this kind of injury is also more common with Golfers. Basically, where the wrist comes into action, this injury may be seen. When the wrist is overused, pressure comes on tendons of the muscles connecting to the elbow which are involved in the movement of wrist and fingers. This eventually invites pain.

      In Sachin’s case, his heavy bat was one of the major reasons for injury. He used to make use of bat weighing around 3 kgs where other’s used approx. 1.7 kgs which is almost half of what Sachin used to use. He was advice by the doctor to use much lighter bat than his normal. From there on, he started using the lighter stick but still the one which he uses now is pretty heavier than normal bats.

      When he was struck with this injury, it was termed as end of Sachin era because he was not able to even grip the bat due to pain. The critics became active and concluded that Sachin would not be able to play cricket anymore, the media adding more masala to this news, as usual, started telecasting the negativities of Sachin over the past few years. This dreaded feeling and thought of not playing cricket anymore gave Sachin sleepless nights. He used to sit with Anjali whole day and night and discuss regarding his comeback, the very feeling of leaving cricket was haunting him like anything. He was so disturb with this that he used to go on drive late in the night to reduce his stress. During this critical period, Anjali stood by him and gave lot of support and boosted his morale which helped Sachin to maintain his self-confidence.

 

      He hoped and hoped till the end to make a comeback and kept his fight on with strong will and determination.

      One day he went down on his knees and prayed, “I want to continue playing for India, don’t take away my passion from me, please recover me fast.”

      Finally his prayers were listened and he made a comeback and what a comeback it was! Awestruck! It’s 2012 now and he is still going strong. Touchwood.

     

                                    When the world says, “Give up”

                                    Hope whispers, “Try it one more time.”      

     

     Similar situation was faced by the cycling champ Lance Armstrong who went through a bad phase of his life facing the dreaded testicular cancer where he was not only about to lose his career but his life. The doctors had minimal hope for him to survive and even if he did, they believed, he would not be able to chase the wheels any longer.

      But Lance was a person of hope and his strong determination made it possible to pull down the cancer from his life, thus making it through to the field of cycling. Coming out from such a dreadful situation, his competitors and sponsors believed he had lost his stamina and ability to cope up with rigorous cycling tournaments like Tour de France and commented it was impossible for him to make a comeback now.

      Lance took these comments as a challenge and showed the world that nothing is big in front of hope and determination.

      He went on to win a record seven consecutive times the toughest of tournaments, Tour de France, after having survived the cancer.

      If you have a strong self-belief and desire to do well, you will surely come out as a winner. Remember, sunset is always followed by sunrise and this cycle goes on. Keep on the fight and sleep tight.

      The bottom line is, ‘Never give up hope, even if things are not on your side, just be patient and hang on to it, ek din aayega and that will be your moment.’