A game, a result, multiple speculations, a revelation

I got a BIG lesson in life:"never take a girl lightly."

Not that girls (these days especially) are heavy -- and you should take extra care in taking one in your arms.. Not that they are owls -- they can't see beyond darkness.. Then what inspires me to say so??Because in one of the stunning setback to my progress in my Office TT tournament I lost to the sole girl participant in the tournamnet.

Not that she is junior A.P girls' champ, not that I am totally "dhasoo" in TT (I still have enough belief in my TT prowess) ..In fact she is a newcomer..I have been playing it for quite sometime and in the last tournament I took part I stood 3rd (Not out of 3, if that comes to ur mind). Still I lost the game yesterday.

God knows what came in my mind.. Compassion?Complacancy?Condescence?Ya extreme machismo that lures one to show extra care for them even when it is totally unnecessary!!!! I dunno.. She played well,much better than me.. In fact she played a faultless game, waited for me to err and I was entrapped.. This is the strategy I often take while playing against much fancied opponent and more often than not it pays dividend. And now she demolished me with my own weapon..

All praise for her.. She struck to the basics too well -- kept the ball on the table and played with a solid defence. But was it tested properly? I boast myself of quite a number of good serves that put many a opponent to a bit trouble..But how may serves of that sort I did yesterday?? -- one, I guess.. Instead of playing my game I tried to play her game and I lost it!!!!

And you know I live in a male chauvinistic society and a guy losing to a gal heads for many a speculation. One of my close friends threatened me before the match "if you lose this I won't talk to yoy." Another well wisher asked me to get myself drowned. But you know I stay in a place which is infamous for its water shortage .. So he changed his mind and asked "kuud ja balcony se"..

And of course speculations came.. If you think I was thinking of writing a blog next day titled "A game lost, a heart won" - absolutely wrong. If you think bla bla bla that I cannot write then also you are wrong.. Just that I took her little bit easily initially. After losing the first set the MCP inside me ( I didn't know it exists there so profoundly!!!) got psyched and too many unforced error -- too many attempts to play elegant rather than effective game -- ruined me...

Enough self criticism..

Some optimistic view :-) :

Firstly ,

it triggered alarm to wake me up from my hiberantion from blogworld for quite sometime.... It has been long I have written here.. SO many things happened -- some big; some not too big.. Some that could have been shared -- some that couldn't --- But all the same I was not finding a big impetus to write blog on one of them... The thing that came into my mind just after losing the match is writing this blog. Sounds crazy,eh? Ya, I am crazy.. I can't help it..

Secondly,

Got a big lesson. NEVER take a girl lightly . Of course not in your private life -- (I knew it earlier -I shouldn't get much into it as they say discretion is better part of valor), not even in games....