Food for Thought

Winning and losing are a part of life.No person who is successful in life has achieved that position without facing failures.Failures only encourage us to perform better next time.There are ups and downs in every field be it education,entertainment,music or sports.But it seems the frenzied crowd in India does not understand this.There unruly and uncivilized behaviour reflects this every time the Indian Cricket team loses a match or tournament.They resort to wild and belligerent method to show their anguish.These range from burning effigies,taking out funeral processions of cricketers,garlanding their posters with shoes and blackening posters with shoe polish.This kind of behaviour is highly deplorable and against the spirit of sportsmanship.One should realize how does the cricketers feel when they see this kind of behaviour from the citizens.They have put their best to win and this kind of behaviour from the countrymen is demoralizing for them.Australian cricket team who dominated the cricket world from 1999 to 2007 winning three world cups in a row, put up a very poor show in the recently concluded T-20 World Cup.But did their countrymen received them in such a way.Srilanka who was the runner up in the tournament also did not get this kind of welcome after returning to their country.Those protesting in such uncontrolled way should put themselves in the shoes of cricketers.They should understand how does it feel when someone protests in such wild manner over their failures.