Note: The following post was originally posted on my
Facebook profile as a note on July 14, 2014. This is just to keep my stupid
ramblings alive through archives...This is pertaining to the 2014 FIFA World
cup final played between Argentina and Germany in India via Brazil! Again I
have the least regards for Grammar..Pardon my silly narrative style as always
;)
So I am at this gathering yesterday of hundreds, watching
football WC final on a big screen! In 'typical Indian' lingo, I was a Abdulla
whatever in some third party marriage and so were we all, all of us! But I
wasn't able to locate a true Abdulla! A real big time begana-deewana Abdulla!
Well actually, I was having hard time searching one, as the chunk of the crowd
was strongly supporting Messi (Argentina was mere default coz of Messi, again a
'typical Indian' hero worship dreams;) and of course the other chunk was
consisting of german language learners heavily supporting Germany(out of their
supreme Loyalty;)! And I had my own reasons..:p
Then it happened, the real moment of truth and enlightenment
when I actually came across a true Begana OR so I thought! there was this guy
who would say "Haan, Haan", "Haan, Haan" whenever the ball was dribbled from one half
to the other! He seemed dead bored, It almost seemed, he just wanted someone to
score(:p) to get rid of his life's frustrations! As for the sweltering humidity of the
"July Delhi", he was more worried about the Table Fan's direction than
the superbly heated duel between 2 great teams! He even carried across two
large dysfunctional table fans, just to find himself searching for an extra
electricity switch. And all this time I was thinking, if he was being such a
bored disinterested BEGANA-DEEWANA, then why would'nt he just leave?! Just go
MAN! GET OUT! YOU ARE NOT NEEDED HERE..MY HEAD EXPLODED! :D
So sometime during the halftime, I finally mustered the
courage to ask him, Sir, aren't you being a begana at abdulla's wedding, opps
sorry, Abdulla at Begana's wedding? What's up with this "Haan,
Haan"?! Then he replied to free me from my disillusionment, Brother, yes I
am a deewana, but LET ME TELL YOU, that the Deewana ONLY got married after
being through several Abdulla wedding tortures! I assure you bro, one day we
will play football at the highest level and India would conquer the world! I am
just here to create INTEREST!! YES I AM A DEEWANA or Whatever!
I BURST INTO THE LAUGH OF MY LIFE! LOL~BEGANA~DEEWANA!
He was so right, we were all there interested in a game the
one we did not play or quailified for, but how simple was the fact that we
could not see! We were creating there, the foundation of our own Indian
football team of the future! Begana saw it, we couldn't...:) :)
Cheers!!
