Letting go.

Defeat can be liberating – in a way, it’s a form of failure, and once you’ve faced failure, you’ve faced one of your deepest fears, left with very little to fear. About a year ago I read J.K. Rowling’s benefits of failure, an excerpt:

So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realised, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

After today’s defeat at Nagpur, it appears, yet again, there is one player in our team who doesn't fear failure; or does he?