Bikram Wisodm : The Federer Remorse

Yes, I am a Federer fan. Yes, I adore the way he has carried himself all these years.
Now that we've established these facts, we can move ahead knowing this will be an absolutely unbiased and a very objective post.

Did you watch the 2014 Wimbledon Gentlemen's Final? If you did, you witnessed an absolute masterclass in Tennis from two great champions of the game. The end though, as a friend put it later, was sudden. Up until that point in the fifth, I'd absolutely have put my money of Federer making it an unprecedented eighth. Though in all honesty, it would be a precedented eighth Wimbledon crown.

The way Roger carried himself on court though, got me thinking back to the year he had lost to Nadal and cried on court right through the presentation. This wasn't the same man though. This was a calm, composed Roger who seemed at peace with losing to a man who had lost 4 of the last 5 finals he had been in and was filled with self doubt. And like Novak put it, Roger seemed to have let him win it.

I know, conspiracy theory.

But that gets us to the theory of 'The Federer remorse'. It's when you look back on your former self and cannot believe the kind of imbecile you'd been. Just like Roger. He was so much in control of himself (and the course of the match too?) that he was completely at peace with losing to Novak. Right through the match, Fed seemed more concerned about not making the ball-boys and ball-girls run for the ball than he was about trying to run down the Djokovic serve. He looked a complete Champion to me. Something Novak might be a couple of years down the line. Maybe then, Novak might look back on himself and be filled with the 'Oh what an imbecile I was!' emotion. Or in other words, The Federer Remorse! 

Conspiracy Theory

Sitting at home these days, I have little to trouble my little brain. Trying to make something of the time at hand, I pondered if I could come up with some great conspiracy to write a book on. So I thought of one, one that involved prying into the personal lives of people and keeping a tab on them all without their knowledge and in ways where they willingly put their lives to increased surveillance. Unthinkable, right? I mean what kinda incentive could be provided to people so that they put not just their day-to-day goings-on but also their views, opinions and deepest thoughts under subjugation? I didn't think that'd be possible or that I could come up with even a fictional scenario where people would willingly subject themselves to such a fate. Imagine a scenario where the powers that be worked so well behind the scenes, that caught people unawares, willingly subjecting themselves to extensive surveilance and policing. Impossible I thought...even if the government opened a private agency as it's front, people wouldn't be foolish enough to do such a thing...until I thought of what GOOGLE has done...imagine if it were really all that I was thinking of in a fictional scenario! So many have put so much of their lives online and with google and it's subsidiary organizaitions, the ammount of information they have about us, is scary...chats, blogs, photos, videos and so much more! The very thought that all that information could be misused, scary!

Yet, here I am, putting up my thoughts on blogger...if they are screening all that we do and this conspiracy theory does stand true, imagine the dilemma the guys snooping have...should they allow this post or not??? In fact, in my fictional scenario, the protagonist would be using this very openness of the secret to expose the scandal, by doing just this, writing a post! Am I the protagonist then?

(You now know, I am bored...as bored as bored can be!)