“It’s better to loose gracefully than cheating and winning disgracefully”
Everything in life can be compared to a game and your duty in that game is to play your part. You may call a lot of fouls or you may make a lot of fouls but ultimately what matters is who won and who lost. So just play your game, the referee should take care of the rest. But what if the game really turns dirty?
After the first two victories we were prepared with every possibility of being defeated except by cheating. Some how we missed that possibility. This time again Raghulan became the captain. Our first rounds passed easily and we reached the finals without much difficulty. And as usual one can always expect the best opponent in the finals. Our opponents consisted of people from all the final years from all the courses that were offered in Amrita. Now we didn’t ask for this moment but to get our hat-trick victory we had to win this one and they had to be beaten. We were nervous because we were against a very good team, but somehow they didn’t have much hope in their own capability.
The whistle blew and we felt this great force dragging us, yes, dragging us to the other side. We had never felt such a force before and soon realised that it was a 10 v/s 8 match rather than having eight on each side. We called foul but as always the organisers wanted to get over with it and declared it 1-0. For the second pull the security improved and now it was eight on each side. This was the first time we were beaten, though it was by cheating. We would have gladly accepted defeat if we had been beaten, but cheating was something which really angered us. They didn’t even last 10 seconds during the second pull bringing it to 1-1. As everyone proceeded to the nail biting final pull, we knew we had to win this at all costs and in the end… we did win. The whistle blew and it didn’t take long for it to become 2-1.
“They didn’t win against our 8 even after using 10 men”, our supporters started off. And soon it landed up in a fight, but like I said earlier better sense prevailed and the other team accepted defeat. Now the question comes, why did they use unfair means? Didn’t they have faith in them selves? Were they scared of loosing?
We don’t know. But we know that they learnt their lessons well. My mom always told me, “If you fail in an exam its OK, mummy won’t scold you, but don’t cheat”. Unfortunately some of the other teams still didn’t learn from what happened. Sometimes history repeats itself with great effectiveness and destruction. The world war being the best example to this.
More in part IV.
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