Work-life-balance.

In this fast-moving era there is semblance of work-life balance present in our life. Though we constantly point the index finger at the organization where we are working but, it’s a individual onus to maintain the balance. This work-life is a rat-race where everybody elbows other to make a progress, but it’s still possible to keep a balance between the two spheres: Work and Life.
First of all we, should ask one question to ourselves; “What is the aim of my life ?” I think very few of us would be able to answer the question accurately. But one thing is sure that most of us would agree at the point of leading a peaceful-happy-life and this answer easily unravels all our problems. We should look for our priorities in life and accordingly, we should trim out the secondary matters from the essential ones.
What we need most is : Sincerity, not seriousness. Life is not meant to be taken seriously as we are just a guest for few years on earth. There is no point of getting promotion, earning a hefty amount when we can’t spend a whole day with our family or when we don’t know who are our neighbors for last few years. We should be smart at managing our work and should earn as much as needed to maintain the curve on the face’ of our family members.
“Office is not our home”, keep this in mind. Many of us try to spend a long time in office because of free AC, tea, Coffee etc. But there are other responsibilities too. The smile on the face of our children or parents is costlier than the privileges availed in the office. So it’s more important to be effective and smart in managing our time in office.
Short trips with family or frequent dinner party at outside with family is capable of bridging the gap between our absence from many social occasions which we could not take because of robust work life.
Finally, it’s our desire or ego or self-content. I think if we curb our desire, ego or aspiration a little bit, we can gain a lot in return.
Think about it.

Balanced team is necessary but not always the sufficient condition for winning a cricket match.

It is said that cricket is a team game i.e. it’s a game which can be won by the coordinated movement/action of 11 players or where each team member contributes almost evenly. But this theory doesn’t hold true always. More we shift our focus from Test cricket to ODI or IPL, more we see the disobedience of this Universal theory.

Today, when selectors of any team sit down to figure out an 11 member team they always seek for All-rounder instead of a specialist but in reality this team-effort not always translated into triumph.

It’s true that you have to have a balanced team to win a match or before you come to the arena. But how many times we have noticed that a team has won because of equal contribution of all the team members. Rather, in 60 pct cases, we see that someone has to give an outstanding performance i.e. most of the occasion we find that a century or a 4/5 wicket haul has lead to the victory of that team.

On the contrary if a team has a terrific batsman or a bowler and rest of the team members are under average performers the chances of winning of the team is very low since the one and only Mr. Match-winner may not always click.

So as per my opinion, the heroic theory of cricket is that a team should have a balanced strength but when it’s come about victory it needs an explosion or an outstanding performance of an individual..