Phillip Hughes, the Australia Test batsman struck on the head by
a ball two days ago, has died after succumbing to a serious head injury. He was
hit by in the back-left side of the head while batting for South Australia
against New South Wales at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Tuesday. Sean Abbot was the bowler.
Former England cricket captain Sir
Ian Botham tweeted: "A very sad day for the world of cricket. So sorry for
Phillip Hughes and his family. Spare a thought for Sean Abbott."
Yes Indeed it is important to think
of Sean Abbot too.
The guilt and the trauma that he must be going
through due to the fact that it was his ball that killed Phil Hughes must be
devastating. It was in news that his career may be at stake.
Spare a thought please.
Everything is about intention.
Intention is a thought process where one plans with an awareness that one
wants to hurt someone. It is processed in mind, planned out so that the other
can be hurt. For whatever reasons one wants to hurt other- the aim is to hurt.
The hurt could be at an emotional level or physical. Intent to hurt may not be
extreme – to kill; any action from a person
that jeopardizes other’s family life, career, self-esteem is the
intent to hurt. (It is a different point of discussion however that when
one is strong inside nobody’s intention to hurt can hurt you- the subject and
the object have to be dealt with separately here)
Coming back to Abbot- he had no
intention to hurt Phil. He was bowling and Phil was batting. The ball hit at
the wrong place and Phil succumbed to his injury. Abbot did not get up in
the morning with the prior thought or plan to hurt. Yes the intention to
oust Phil to win must have been there. A similar metaphor could be that
if one kills someone in an accident there was no intent to hurt; there could be
carelessness on the part of the driver.
Also destiny cannot be ignored.
The events in life happen exactly as these have to happen. Exactly ,
perfectly, in totality! Because of the perfection of this Universe –
everything is perfect right down to an atom or to the largest galaxies
with all forces then the perfection has to extend to the everything at
macroscopic level too. Whatever has to happen
will happen. Whether with the intention to hurt or with no
intention to hurt, the events of life tun out perfectly. If there is no intent
then it is a different to if there was an intent- a matter of another blog
SO please spare a thought for Sean
Abbot too. Send him love and let him be healed too
A freak accident in a game can happen and Sean Abbot too had a freak incident where his ball unintentionally killed someone . However car accident due to carelessness cannot be condoned because one is given a driving license to drive carefully and not carelessly on the road , where others are moving too . Yes Sean needs counselling to get back to balling and must be made not to feel guilty . Nita ( wanderer )
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DeleteTrue carelessness is not to be condoned- it is still not the intention of the driver to kill!
for example some drivers fall of to sleep- and kill someone- tiredness and yet would be called carelessness
I send my love to the departed soul ..and also to the living soul...and latter must be feeling guilty....
ReplyDeleteEverything happens for a purpose...and this incident may result in having...better awareness....better protective gears..
See ..Alka..people survived when there were no helmets etc,,..and menace of body line bowling. Cricketers like Nari ,anshuman gaekwad
Alka...very poigently written blog...Thanks
Thank you Rakesh ji.
DeleteIndeed people without helmets survive.
Jako rakhe saaiyann
and everything happens for a reason- destiny cannot be faulted
Nice blog...indeed intentions are what matters eventually.And if one is unfortunate to be caught up in situation like Abbot that person needs our sympathy as well. Karmic debts getting paid no doubt. It is in our culture only that we can understand such things and make peace with ourselves .
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