Cricketers - Love for the game or money & fame?

Ask my opinion and I will say that they love all “game, fame and money” and they should. We all our professionals like our cricketers, so we as an individual love all three things specified above, so why shouldn’t our cricketers, they are no saints or social workers (no offences to any of the professions). They surely love the game; this is why they can handle thousands of roaring sounds, rain, heat, sunlight, etc. for complete 8 hours in diving, bowling and batting positions. Can we do that, irrespective of the fact that we get large amount of moolah. So the thing is clear that they love game, money and fame, because the last two are what that this game has given them, they deserve it because cricket is a healthy and wealthy profession.

Let’s discuss it with an example, take this current opening as a “Game”. I get selected for this current opening, it will surely give me fame in my social circle (everyone knows how big “GOOGLE” is. You can see even the font size is big). It will give me money (I firmly believe). Is this wrong? Isn’t it what our cricketers are doing?

Money matters, but when we have god-like figures, such as Sachin Tendulkar and Saurav Ganguly, showing the same commitment as they are 18 year old at an middle age, it shows that they love the game, because money and fame is that they have in billions.

This is fact that cricket is a religion that everyone follows, so we are the ones who preach it, and cricketers are those people who actually do it, so the fame and money is a reward to our cricketers for expanding our “religion” that bars all castes, creeds and languages.

Live life for today

Yes, this is one of the things that I follow, preach, teach and always ready to boast and spread awareness about. What we have done in past (e.g., education, relationships, learning, etc.) is that which affects us today, and whatever we will today will surely have an impact on our future. So if we cannot change things that we have done in past, why not do something today that can be fruitful and beneficial for our future? So my first point is clear that if we live life for today and do things in the manner as they are supposed to be done than we don’t have to worry about our future.
I have seen people who regret their past and worry a lot for their future; they are somehow missing the fun and cherishing moments that can be availed today. Take an example from the current natural calamity in Japan; people living there wouldn’t have ever imagined the current scenario even in their worst dreams. So what they are living in right now is “Today”. They are short of options of how and where to live, but they have to live it and live it in “Today’s” form. So live life for today, because future is uncertain and today is what we have right in front and in our hands.

There is a famous quote by James Dean that “Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.” Correctly said we don’t know what future holds for us, but we know that what we are holding for us “Today”. So hold it tight and hold it right, and let everything happen. Don’t you think it’s silly to worry about things that we don’t know?

I live for today and believe me I am 23 years old (I think my life experience is not too short) and not had anything that I have worried about. Seen many ups and downs but still living in and for today.

I will repeat my first point; if you live in today, it will impact your future. So I am living in “Today” writing an essay for “Google”, and if got selected, will work in one of the largest companies on this planet and so my future is in my hands, and it’s “TODAY”.