Today is the 264th episode on the podcast but it also marks the 200 continuous days that I have been writing or blogging… As some of you might know this is part of my 365 days writing project… Well that demands a dedicated Double Century Celebration..

The phrase double century is something I have heard in the Cricket speak…. the game of cricket…. I played cricket as a kid but was not at all good at it… I also felt bad about it back then… when a team is formed from the colony we lived… I would either be the one cheering outside or if lucky the 12th man….

But I remember being the top scorer in one match when I got a boundary by fluke and my team was all out for 6 runs… You can imagine how bad I was… Well this is not about ticket… but let us talk about that…

I think it was 1989 when I stopped following cricket.. I have never followed the games of Sachin Tendulkar known even as the God of cricket by many.. I think I stopped watching after joining college in REC Calicut and the friends I made were not Cricket fans and since I only had memories of total ridicule.. I thought it was ideal for me to step away from that field of sports… It was not cricket.. I stepped away from sports of all sorts..

When sports was out that space was taken by politics and books and conversations across a range of subjects…. I am thinking that would have a role in what shaped me.. I am no where saying you should stop sports.. I did not even say that the lack of it shaped me well… But I think I am happy because I started focussing on things that today helped me become a content creator across a range of topics and an unquenchable appetite for new things… making life more cluttered rather than plain and disciplined….

So this was supposed to be a double century celebration… yes it is and this is how it is done… you create one more post on what might not even be anyway resembling what you are celebrating…

Categories: Writing

Tags: 200, cricket, double century, two hundred, writing continuously