It is said "some lives" are linked "across time" connected by an ancient calling that echoes through the ages "Destiny".
With this saying, the movie "Prince of Persia - Sands of Time" starts. And the director leaves a thought to ponder over. Today when I read the line again and again, I feel it's gradually strengthening its hold on me and I feel as if I am spellbound. When I look back my last twentyfive years of life, I feel as I had no control on anything. I was an actor in my own life and played my part as the director - "Destiny" wished it to be.
When I look back, I see the good and the bad moments in my life. I feel the happiness of a care-free child playing cricket on a sunny day. I feel the warmth of love of my parents. I feel the heat of Xth exams. I feel the gloominess of not performing to my capability in my board exams. I feel the pain of being separated from my mom for my 12th studies. I feel the pressure of getting into engineering college. I feel the joy of getting into MIT and the pleasure of being picked by Cisco. I feel the sadness of leaving MIT and the fun of Freescale. And the pain of moving to Cisco. And then blissful joy of the freedom in Cisco. Suddenly all of these seem to me a cricket match rigged-up by Destiny where the bowler-Life is well aware when to throw what kind of ball. I as a batsman assuming it to be a genuine match trying my level best to hit the easy ones for fours & sixes and ducking myself from the bouncers and body-liners. So whats the point of playing such matches where the results are fixed and just that they are known to you only when you have played till the right time.
It's the effort which I have put in matters and not the result of the match. Its the players with whom I play the match matter and not the spectators in the stands. Spectators will come and go. Grounds will change. Rules will be modified. But these players whose destinies have been linked with mine will remain. Our lives "linked across time" will cross each other's path again and we will play together again may be on a different ground on a different day against a different bowler.
