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One act of flow

There are days, and no one is spared from those, where everything just seems off track. On some of these days, you are dizzy and overwhelmed by the list of things to do. On others, you are so lost that you don't even know what to put on the list. Existential questions like "Where am I headed?" and "What if I am not good enough?" start making a way into your head, until some youtube video or an Instagram notification comes to the rescue. This post is an epiphany that I had on one such day. A batsman (choose your favorite) comes on the field with the pressure of scoring tons of runs, in limited deliveries, while maintaining his wicket. The first few deliveries he faces are short and inviting. He succumbs to the pull and goes after them, yet misses them all. Time to enter the thoughts in Dravid's mind... "What am I doing missing these easy balls?", "Everything is going wrong, I could've lost my wicket on any of those, haven't scored a run