I travelled to London just to watch a cricket match a few weeks back.

I travelled to Ahmedabad just to experience the kite festival a couple of years ago.

I have a library full of unread books and a memory full of lost ones.

I’ve woken up at 5 am to bat for a single over and have stayed up all night just to write a few lines.

I’ve intentionally chosen paths leading to less success and given up on privilege just because my heart said so.

None of this makes sense to most people.

The good part? It doesn’t need to make sense to others. They will label it as stupid or naive or something even worse, and that’s okay.

Wiaan Mulder declared a test innings on a personal score of 367*.

THREE. HUNDRED. SIXTY. SEVEN.

He was just 34 runs away from immortality – perhaps one of the most coveted records in test cricket. And he walked away!

Doesn’t make sense right? A stupid and naive decision. The reasoning even more so.

He did it to show respect to Brian Lara? He really thinks not touching his record is a way to show respect to Lara? Maybe yes, maybe not.

It doesn’t really matter why Mulder did it. What matters is it was his decision to do so and he chose to stick by it – no matter how absurd it seems to us.

We are the sum total of the choices we make and they don’t have to make sense to anyone else because no one else is walking in your shoes – you alone are.

This capitalistically inclined world often can’t understand the artistic satisfaction of letting go of the most lucrative of materialistic achievements.

This world obsessed with numbers, only understands how to maximize returns, to squeeze the last drop out of every situation. Whereas, there still are some who know the art of walking away. In doing things not because they add up but because it means something to them.

Call it irrational if you have to, but history remembers those who had the courage to act differently.

After all, people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do – doesn’t matter what rest of the world thinks!