an evening of brilliance -(minus) 2

It was raining cats and dogs in chennai a couple of days ago. (Yeah right! dont bluff me....it rains water very rarely in chennai, so forget cats and other animals). but no, seriously, in the middle of august, on a day which had not a single dark cloud, the rains decided to surprise everyone in the evening, with their august presence. And they did not come alone. they brought along with them winds which blew palpably fast.(or was it the other way round, the winds bringing the rains)

And what do you guess i was doing, when the rain gods decided to have a field day. i was playing football. and i was playing the beautiful game after ages.

it was raining so heavily we couldn't make out who our teammates were. but who cared. all we had to do was see the ball, and give as hard as a kick you could up its arse. if you didn't the wet field would stop it prob 2 cms away. and then you get another chance to kick.

all of us knew that playing in these rains would result in sever joint pain, but yet no one budged from the field. a day or two of pain could easily be tolerated, for 2 hours of undistilled joy. at night when mosquitoes came calling, i couldn't scratch my leg, because my hand would pain if bent it at the wrists. in addition to all this while playing, i skidded on the wet field, and had fallen down, and had come to the conclusion my left buttock would never be the same again.

but the evening was worth all this and more. just one incident in the evening was worth it. someone from my opposite team sent a ball kicking high over our heads towards the goal. we were playing without goalies. so the goal basically was two vlc icons kept 2 feet apart from each other. the ball was rushing towards the goal, and water stopped it right before the goal. the opposition's forward made a dash for the ball. we had given up hope as we wouldn't have reached before him. so he ran, with no1 following, all alone, and tapped the ball, and what do you know, tapped wide!!!!he missed the goal from a distance of 1 foot. the laughter that roared through the field could be heard over the rain, thunder and winds.


as i told you i had gone o play football after ages, and so knew no one on the field. but none of it mattered. a gang of 15 people, a football, and rains from the skies together is spelt happiness. nothing more, nothing less.