Watching India get creamed in a do-or-die cricket match (against Australia in Guwahati, 8 Nov, 2009), I wonder why India losses affect us so much, even Christians. I mean, I know sport is just a game. But that it affects moods, is unquestionable.
But why should it affect me as a Christian who understands that all this is just a game… and there are more important things in life?
I know I could answer this by saying that I’m still human, I’m still Indian, and thus being an Indian remains the core of my being and thus I will remain attached to my context (and rightly so) even while also existing as a Christian.
Yes, that’s fine. But I don’t want losses in a cricket match to bother me so much.
I mean, why doesn’t the Narmada Dam bother me so much? Or the Kashmir problem, Naxal problem, Corruption, and … etc etc etc.
I’ve become desensitized to India-problems, and yet remain deeply attuned to the sporting fate of the cricket team.
Hmmm! So there does seem something wrong here.
And yet this post is a confession rather than an actual answer. And so with this I go back to feeling bad that the Indian cricket team is losing!
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