Pain of loss & body..

The pain has persisted for the most part of this week - making me less effective. It is a constant reminder that something is wrong with my body, which is more bothering me that anything else. Whatever I am doing through out the day, pain is just a breathe away. I was hoping it will go away after couple of good night sleeps and some mid week relaxation. so I kind of forced myself out and stayed home day before yesterday and took plenty of rest - still nothing much changed. It is also not a pain which stops you from doing work, but it is so nagging and sometimes when I change body postures it hurts more. I am guessing this has definitely something to do with my body alignment while sitting in front of PC or TV. Saw a doctor earlier this week and he had also not much to say, except giving some pain killers and asking me to take rest and drink lots of fluid. All those I have been doing pretty much through the week - still it hasn't improved or increased even.

Anyways, lets not keep talking about it. No pain can win me over :-). Yesterday was also a very painful day for other reasons. India were playing Aussies in the cricket one day match and while chasing a mammoth 350 runs, they got so close, yet lost the match by 3 runs. One 20 years old "veteran" ( 20 years in international cricket) and living legend Sachin Tendulkar, go India almost home. He scored 175 in 141 balls, an amazing feat for the 36 years young fella. But close enough is never good enough and now India is down in the series 3-2. Despite all the loss and the pain associated with it, I had never witnessed any run chase like yesterday. India was not out of the game till last over and perhaps till the ball when Praveen Kumar was run out. It was a thrilling match and I am sorry to end up on the losing side. It doesn't take away the genius of Sachin and all the hard work he put in to set this up for India. He displayed some of the best cricketing shots and ability to keep on going for over 45 overs. The kind of shots he played and commitment he displayed, made everyone look smaller in the rest of cricketing world. Cricketers like Sachin are born once in centuries and Indian is blessed to have him in the line up for last 2 decades. He has given countless moments of joy in his career and every run was cheered like hell yesterday as well by the capacity crowd in the Hyderabad stadium. Though he must be feeling terrible - but life moves on and he will be back on field in couple of days taking guard for India in another match.

Match scorecard here - http://www.cricinfo.com/indvaus2009/engine/current/match/416240.html

This is also the last weekend, before family arrives from India. I am eagerly looking forward to Monday 7 AM when I will be at the airport to receive them. Spoke to Aryan today and he is also equally eager to get here and kept repeating, I miss my home, mamma lets go now, its enough. Yes my son, its enough -- please come back now.