Being a neutral fan of football..
I have supported 2 different teams in the last few WC..
I would support any team ,i just need a jersey gifted to me..
As we have aged ,we stopped admiring so many things,
Recently i noticed children being happy and excited about a new kind of insect they saw, running around the house and saying the moon is following them ...
this is him in latest pic. relishing some cuisine with NSG personnel. there is this terrifying contentment reflecting off his face that tells me he has moved on. no, not in retiring sense, that he already has, it's about moving on from cricket itself. we ordinary beings hold thousand memories of him, we revisit them, via clips, reels, edits, many ways, we remain in that fan zone, we shall always be, but the mahendra singh dhoni we knew, the one who fondled our hearts with the swing of his bat, is a history now. he makes it look like he is just around us, but deep down he has left us far far behind. he has zero attachment issues, unlike us. a rationality monster. reason he been ridiculously successful. he moves on real fast, from whatever it was, however dear it was, after a stage, it's nothing to him. he is unfazed, unbothered, onto his next chapters.
@SnowHimbo Mrbeast is what karl Marks warned us about..
The final stage of capitalism where empathy is commoditized
Poverty = content
Charity=entertainment
Human desperation = engagement fuel