I haven't heard your name till 26th November, 2014. I am numb to cricket. And I generally hate Australia.
But for some reason, the news about your injury, subsequent developments, and your leaving this world - all had a very emotional impact on me. I felt deeply sad, and was torn into tears - multiple times. I couldn't understand it. I felt weird that why I am feeling something for, whom I have no emotional bonding at all. I worried that am I just acting under ethical pressure. But no, the emotions were way too strong to be dubbed as some kind of societal pressure. Way too strong, that I am writing a blog entry.
I think it is some kind of innate similarity that moved me. Maybe love for humanity, for sportsmen, for risk taking people who get into things ignoring the perils - for the value and the thrill it promises. Or may be just the fact that you lost your life from a normal routine, which anybody of us can too.
Its not the feeling of pity or fear, its the feeling of losing a body part - a person who was similar in some ways - a person who was trying hard to beat some fears, and make an example, though without doing anything too rebellious.
Phil Huges,
I pay homage to eveything you were, and everything you did to become who you were. I pray from bottom of my heart that your soul rest in peace. And I observe 2 minutes silence for the same.
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