A tough decision

                      A tough decision

There are eight teams in throw ball from each department which are divided into two groups, four teams in each. I was surprised to know that our department did not qualify for last six years. They not even win a single match for last three years and this year they only wants to win a single match. On the other hand our departmental football team have won four titles in last six years and they are also the defending champions.

    I had to choose between them. I can go with my football team or I can improve our departmental woman throw ball team. One side has past glory and the other has past failure. There are many junior players in our football team and many of them are better than me so they can replace my position but the throw ball team has hardly ten-twelve players and most of them were absent and irregular. They are only playing for a participation certificate.

   The legacy is already made in the football team and if I choose this I will just be a player of a winning side but if my presence makes any difference in the throw ball team and more over if the team wins, I can be a member of a first time throw ball winning team from our department. For the first time I got a chance to create history for our department so I choose throw ball over football.

   The next day was Saturday and there was no class after recess. In the morning Aditi, the captain of the side said me that they are going to held a practice session after the college and my presence is very important. She also mentioned all of the team members will come today. I was keen to know about the player who was very irregular and absent most of the days that's why I had to take her position in previous practices.

Chapter-2 || Spring in the desert

                            Chapter-2

                   Spring in the desert

     August ends. This is the eventful odd semester of our college. It starts with Teacher's Day then annual sports and ends with tech fest and annual function.

It's been a long time since our conversation ends in facebook and my inquietude about that incident is going but my habit of seeing our old chats has not gone. In this days I am only trying to concentrate on football as the annual sports are coming. So I start practicing football with my friends.

One day I was passing through our college campus and saw some  girls of our department are doing catching practice with a football. I go towards them to ask about the game. They said that the name of the sport is throw ball. Two teams with eight players each will throw a ball over the net where a member of the other team tries to catch the ball and quickly throw it back across the net. They ask me to play with them as one player of their team has not come. As I had some time before my football practice, I decide to play with them. I think it will be exciting to play with fifteen girls. Sometimes later I find interest in that game. I was late for my own practice but throw ball was very interesting so I decided to skip my practice for that day. The next two days I didn't go to college as I got fever. You can call it 'the silence before the storm'. The next day I saw them again playing and they were really struggling. I went to them, they told me that there is again a player absent for the practice. I take that place that day again. Somehow I was attached with the game. We make plans and trying to execute that. As I was a football player I had ability to throw a ball higher with speed and that helped them in their practice. Aditi who was a good friend of mine and also the captain of the side asked me to join them as their mentor. It was quite a surprising offer for me, also I have my own football practice. So I can't give them assurance but I make a promise to be in their practice.