Individual excellence does not necessitate team excellence. The two being entirely different ballgames. This has been very well dealt with in the latest release chak de India. Each of the sixteen women hockey players, with distinct capabilities is a star in herself, but they are a big disappointment as a team. The base line of this incoherence is the unwillingness of the team members to work in cohesion, a phenomenon omnipresent in our country. The irony of the situation being that all of us memorize the following adage “United we stand divided we fall” since our childhood. But we somehow completely miss the essence of it. United here does not only imply unity in the so called diversity inherent in our country, but it also implies oneness in whatever we do. There comes the cliché team-effort.
Each of us has great potential and can achieve the unachievable, a fact which has been recognized by the world also. But I am sure most of us will at the same time agree with the fact that we lack the will to work as One. Working together can do wonders, very rightly conveyed in Chak de. A group of extra ordinary players can defeat the invincible, when each individual works as a part of the team: a lesson which should be learnt, not just memorized by us.
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Well said, Madame!
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