Presumptions of CSK and non CSK fans

The season 5 of IPL is almost over with the final between CSK and KKR due in just a few hours. Almost about 50% of Indian population which is interested in IPL of course is a CSK fan and no doubt they are sticking to all of their superstitious activities from the morning just to see their team lifting the IPL trophy for the third time in a row. Some people are switching their mobile phones off just to avoid the call of that person who whenever calls them, CSK lose, some people are sticking only to liquid diet, some are even avoiding the call of nature (obviously this causes shit to happen) and the list goes on. I am not exaggerating, this is the fact and I know such die hard CSK fans personally. Okay, now let me clarify the reason why I mentioned 50% of IPL fans are CSK fans. Obviously, I didn’t conduct any survey, I didn’t refer any stats, it is a simple observation as it is the 5th year of IPL and more importantly Facebook posts gave me this idea.

I myself have around 350 friends on facebook and I rarely see posts like Mumbai Indians rocks or Pune Warriors or RCB or any other IPL team rocks, etc. But everytime CSK wins, I see about 10-12 posts from my friends like yellow prevails, CSK rocks, CSK crushed DD or like that. My facebook friends even share some pictures like the one shown here (obviously from a CSK fan). Believe me this is the only reason I came up with the arbitrary figure of 50% here. But I don’t want to justify further on that as I have seen CSK fans feel that they are unique and only a few Indians who have the passion for cricket and its knowledge, admire CSK. They yell that they love Dhoni and CSK just because they perform and that too consistently perform and only CSK fans are true and impartial judge of talent and no one else in the world has knowledge of the game. Everytime CSK lifts the trophy or wins a game they yell and paint the walls (obviously on Facebook) with ‘Hail CSK, Hail Dhoni’ and they provoke the fans of other teams (the remaining 50%) just be tagging them in the post and saying that it’s high time, you should also start admiring Dhoni and CSK (I am referring only Dhoni and CSK because these are the only two trending topics, no matter if Albie Morkel wins a game for CSK, they say it was RCB who lost because of Virat Kohli and they love Dhoni for letting Morkel to bat at such crucial time, Dhoni rocks).

Oh yes, the final is obviously between KKR and CSK tonight and I am writing only about CSK and not KKR because I am sure only two class of people exist i.e. CSK fans and non-CSK fans. I believe I have done enough justice with the article considering the reactions of CSK fans whenever their team wins and they accusing every non CSK fan of having no knowledge of the game and moreover CSK fans presume a lot of things about non CSK fans like everytime CSK wins, we (as I am also not a fan of CSK) think it was fixed, we hate CSK because we hate Dhoni lifting trophy everytime, we hate CSK because we don’t know what a team performance is, etc.

At last, I would like to express views of the other side. I don’t want to justify anything but just a clarification to every CSK fan. No, we don’t hate Dhoni lifting the trophy, whenever it comes to India we are no different from you people and even we do some superstitious stuff just to see Dhoni hitting the winning six. SO this accusation is simply ruled out. No we don’t hate CSK just because we don’t have knowledge of the game. I can’t give an example to prove that (only a test can justify this). No, we don’t hate CSK just because they are dominating and we don’t love to see the same team win again and again. As we would just love to see the team we support winning the trophy indefinite number of times. SO, at last, don’t wait for the remaining 50% of us to become a fan of CSK just by provoking us that CSK is the team which performs everytime. I have seen it and I agree that CSK has been a consistent performer in the IPL for the last 5 seasons, I agree that the team is just great and has good finishers and yes, plays as a team and wins. But if it was just performance which had to be the criteria for being a fan, every year not even every year but after every game the fan following might have been changing. I am happy that it is not the case, we are loyal to our teams and you are to yours. Believe me, no matter how hard I try to convince my heart that be a fan of CSK and tell you friends that you too are supporting CSK this time (just because you know they will perform), I fail to do that. I believe sometimes, its just feeling and love that dominates and affects your fan following or decisions not the performance. Even after you know that your team has rare chances of win or they are not performing upto their potential, you get angry but you don't start hating them. Same as we do in case of love ;-) If it had been the case, every single guy would have been loving the single girl. SO believe me, its nothing more than just lack of feelings for CSK or yellow jersey or the name Chennai ,etc that we are not the fans of CSK. Its not Dhoni, its not performance, its not dominance.

Finally. if I say that Dhoni had been a far better Ludo player, it doesn’t mean that I hate his luck. It simply means that when he was given a chance to secure his place in playoffs, he should have done it like the other 4 seasons. This time they failed to do so, and I surely hated it when even after having the talent, you left it to luck for that to happen. If it had not happened, it would have hurt 50% hearts. SO, CSK when you have a fan following, don’t just rely on luck, don’t let your fans pray for the loss of other teams, they don’t want that to happen again.

P.S. CSK fans please if you have do not agree with the views expressed here, just think it as a presumption of a non-CSK fan and bear it like we do every time you presume something and post it on Facebook wall.

-Arian

Wandering Clueless in 20s

The twenties are an amazing time in life and no doubt confusing. You get out of college at around 21-22, and you’re geared up for life. You really believe you know everything. You’re “grown up now”; after all, you’ve graduated from college and you think you’re ready for the big world. You have dreams. You have aspirations. You think you know what you want for a career. For most of us it is the first time that we are truly on our own and free to choose our own path. It is an age where we essentially get to start with a clean canvas and begin painting the type of life we have dreamed of since childhood. It is an opportune time to try new things, new jobs, develop new habits and enjoy the lifestyle that comes with having little responsibility and endless amounts of energy.

No matter who you were in college -- whether you were great with women, a great athlete or the smartest person in your class -- you go out into the real world and realize that you’re at the bottom of the totem pole again. It’s like starting from scratch.
You get your ass kicked throughout your 20s. You get your ass kicked in your career. You have to learn to deal with people who are a lot smarter and more experienced than you -- people who have been around the block, and people who know the game and know how to play it very well.
In your 20s, you’re expected to know what you want to be, but unless you are a Doctor or a lawyer, u'll end up doing the jobs you never thought u'll have to do.
The twenties are the years of life where u don't have much of the responsibilities but enormous amount of energy to fulfill your dreams. The energy bursting inside you pushes you to achieve everything you have ever desired. You want to be a rockstar, a writer, an painter, and the things keep on adding depending upon whom you get impressed with. Thats not all. In case you are doing a job and you have no plans to make a career out of it, then another thing you worry about is- what the hell are you going to do in life and where will you get settled? That haunts you day and night as you need to decide it soon as you have to get married also. You will soon get responsibilities to deal with, you can't remain a kid for long as soon you will be having yours. 

You can't just exhaust your energy trying hands on each and every thing you want. In order to harness the energy bursting inside you, you need to learn how to make trade-offs in life. I heard it somewhere- 'sometimes its better to let it go'.

This is what I could figure out after a thought process of four and a half hours that we need to learn to set our priorities right in order not to regret wasting the enormous amount of energy we have in this adult adolescence phase of life.

Do let me know in case you have the solution for the problem which I believe haunts everyone of us in their 20s.

-Arian