Our deepest desires are sometimes fulfilled in ways our consciousness cannot imagine. We may keep living a routine life, the monotony of which is temporarily broken only by our futile attempts to crib our way out of it. But destiny works in strange ways.
Three years ago, it made a crazy 24 year old, head over heels in love with a game called cricket, to write to the editor of the best cricket website in the world. The man himself was gracious enough to give more than a patient hearing to the upstart, who wanted to be part of the website, despite not having the faintest notion what it actually involved. Unfortunately, his bravado came to a halt when it turned out that there was no opening where he could be fitted in. Heartbreak!
Time heals heartbreaks. It does this by dragging us back into the rut of routine. So it happened to our cricket-mad young man. For the next three years, he occasionally satisfied himself by watching Virender Sehwag demolish the Lankans at the Brabourne Stadium. He then lined up at the Cricket Club of India gates and managed to get Dilip Vengsarkar's autograph. Such moments were rare though.
Then destiny decided to give him a second chance. Circumstances pulled him out of his routine in a manner that made him write again to the editor, three years later. This time the man decided to grant him a meeting. For an hour they chatted. About the game. About the players. About the website. About following one's passion. About surmounting obstacles. And the editor felt the guy was in love with the game blindly enough to be given a chance.
And that is how I have made it to Cricinfo, the best cricket website in the world. Destiny has conspired to ensure that one of the deepest desires of my life, working for Cricinfo, has been fulfilled.
