Sunday, November 20, 2011

Tug of War

It has been long since my last writing. I wanted to write something that touched my soul and was searching for an answer how to pass a message in an encrypted form which is well received by the target audience. In case you are flabbergasted by my choice of topic then, you are thinking of dictionary meaning of the game and not the reality of the game in your day to day life. I anticipate you all have been in a situation where you had too opposing minds to please at the same time. I have defined the same situation this time.
Story of a Rope
The rope is as important in the game as the two opposing parties involved in the game. It was the coconut trees whose leaves were once collected by the workers in early morning to earn a living. I have witnessed with my own eyes how, the women wakes up early and wander on the streets of Chennai to collect what would be dried, beaten up and cut into thin pieces before entangling into one another to form a rope. The rope which was extracted from the leaves (its creator) has a completely different role to play in our lives like the role of an anchor or bondage between two objects. The leaves or the tree from which it was generated had a role to give life, shelter and food to us and but its fruit "the rope" now would provide a bondage to the objects that are to be tied to stay in accord. In other words it brings two objects together. If you look closely in real life parents provide a life and body but this is different from role of a child who bonds them together and others throughout his journey with his parents.
This rope apart from all the positives it had; caught attention of mankind in a rather contrasting way to its true nature and they started using as an object to show their dominance and their strength over others. Caught between their acts was a poor rope.
Someone is a looser but no one breaks down
Tug of war is a funny game. It involves two parties with almost equal strength trying to pull each other through a rope (the third party) to make each other cross a centre line. This game was once an inclusion in Olympics between 1900 and 1920 but soon was scrapped from it. Each of the two opposing sides is headstrong and all they care about is winning at any cost. The poor rope feels the tension from both the sides remain strong for a reasonable period of time but sometimes when it fails to take any further stress breaks down. The same happened in mid 1990's during a Tug of war competition in a small town in Germany where 650 scouts were participating and the rope broke within 30 seconds of the start leaving 2 dead and many injured. Obviously, when the anchor will break between opposing forces just imagine how far the two bodies be thrown away and the rope too being damaged beyond repair. Even a student would be able to tell you that the tension caused within the rope when pulled beyond its threshold makes it unusable for future. Then the two parties can always repent on not being on the winning side but what they fail to learn is someone was broken beyond repair during their tussle.
Conclusion
There were talks revolving on possible inclusion of the game in near future again in Olympics. But as I end my blog I wish the organising committee makes sure that the rope can withstand more tension than that applied during competition.
I would say that Tug of War is not the ultimate solution for the test of strength. It’s closer to being at war than having a constructive debate. If one needs to test their strength and importance over other there are more creative ways of doing that than simply creating tension within the rope.
A bond should always be treated with care and respect it’s not a way to find out dominance over other but a connection between them. Too much tussle has always ruptured it.
Amen

2 comments:

  1. Very interesting subject and the relative context taken inspires to see small details that we miss in our day to day life.The peripheral view of concept taken is amazing.Good work, keep it up.Hope to see next blog soon.

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  2. Makes me go around a certain topic but .......

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