Uc prompt: Describe the world you come from - for example, your family, community or school - and tell us how your world has shaped your dreams and aspirations?
Growing up in Pakistan, I have always wondered what does make this sport-cricket- so important for everyone in this country and why everyone thought it is the best sport .I always loved playing cricket as a teenager I remember going for the schools team selection when I was in 8th grade not getting selected for the team is my biggest achievement so far because I started questioning the practicality of cricket I always wanted to play a sport that everyone can relate to in a way I never wanted to play a sport just for the sake of "extracurricular "activity I wanted to love it every sport is a science I wanted to study it and that incident of not being selected forced me to do so.
Cricket Is said to be a gentlemen's game for a lot of reasons firstly it teaches a valuable lesson in life that no matter how good you get you can never take your opponents lightly something that ancient Chinese military general told 1000's of years ago that every battle is won before fought it teaches you to be introspective about yourself and analyze your mistakes , point out your own flaws before enemy catches it and uses it to their own advantage .A cricket team is an army lead by a general (Captain) the general makes all the plans and executes them he is responsible for marshaling his troops on the field and gets all the blame when his army losses.
Although I didn't made it to the schools cricket team in grade 8th I learned something valuable on my way back to the pavilion after my embarrassingly short stay at the crease during the selection trials that cricket is not just a game it is more than that it taught me that not getting selected is not the end just like getting awful C grade in SSC (Secondary school) exams was not the end for me .Cricket teaches one to think critically and learn from his mistakes and take them as feedbacks rather than failures just like Thomas Edison did when he took those 10,000 attempts as feedbacks rather than"failures" .cricket unlike other sports is mostly played and won off the field, although, the win just gets official on the field. You have to make a plan according to your strengths and your opponent's weaknesses .just like I everyone was taught in high school to make a study plan focusing on their weaknesses while keeping in mind their strengths. cricket teaches you to think like an economic analyst looking at not just immediate but long term consequences of any act.
It has more than anything taught me something no other game could have, it taught me that perseverance is the ultimate key to success in life and in sports as my late coach once told us that talent can take you to the top but you need character to stay there. In the end if we have to make metaphors for every sport and aspect of life : in basketball, taking another man's possessions; in tennis, having another man submit to your will; in rugby, conquering another man's land. In economics, "assumptions" but in Cricket is the greatest game because its metaphor is the greatest: life and death. You have to take life (with the ball) save life(with the bat) and play God with other lives a captain) and doing all that while being a gentlemen.
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Growing up in Pakistan, I have always wondered what does make this sport-cricket- so important for everyone in this country and why everyone thought it is the best sport .I always loved playing cricket as a teenager I remember going for the schools team selection when I was in 8th grade not getting selected for the team is my biggest achievement so far because I started questioning the practicality of cricket I always wanted to play a sport that everyone can relate to in a way I never wanted to play a sport just for the sake of "extracurricular "activity I wanted to love it every sport is a science I wanted to study it and that incident of not being selected forced me to do so.
Cricket Is said to be a gentlemen's game for a lot of reasons firstly it teaches a valuable lesson in life that no matter how good you get you can never take your opponents lightly something that ancient Chinese military general told 1000's of years ago that every battle is won before fought it teaches you to be introspective about yourself and analyze your mistakes , point out your own flaws before enemy catches it and uses it to their own advantage .A cricket team is an army lead by a general (Captain) the general makes all the plans and executes them he is responsible for marshaling his troops on the field and gets all the blame when his army losses.
Although I didn't made it to the schools cricket team in grade 8th I learned something valuable on my way back to the pavilion after my embarrassingly short stay at the crease during the selection trials that cricket is not just a game it is more than that it taught me that not getting selected is not the end just like getting awful C grade in SSC (Secondary school) exams was not the end for me .Cricket teaches one to think critically and learn from his mistakes and take them as feedbacks rather than failures just like Thomas Edison did when he took those 10,000 attempts as feedbacks rather than"failures" .cricket unlike other sports is mostly played and won off the field, although, the win just gets official on the field. You have to make a plan according to your strengths and your opponent's weaknesses .just like I everyone was taught in high school to make a study plan focusing on their weaknesses while keeping in mind their strengths. cricket teaches you to think like an economic analyst looking at not just immediate but long term consequences of any act.
It has more than anything taught me something no other game could have, it taught me that perseverance is the ultimate key to success in life and in sports as my late coach once told us that talent can take you to the top but you need character to stay there. In the end if we have to make metaphors for every sport and aspect of life : in basketball, taking another man's possessions; in tennis, having another man submit to your will; in rugby, conquering another man's land. In economics, "assumptions" but in Cricket is the greatest game because its metaphor is the greatest: life and death. You have to take life (with the ball) save life(with the bat) and play God with other lives a captain) and doing all that while being a gentlemen.
(CRITQUE PLEASE BE VERY STRICT)