Well here goes my first effort at a BLOG. By the way, what a horrible name for something that is supposed to stimulate creative communications. All it makes me thinks of is BOG, so have ignored ‘blogging” for years. What about changing it to something like CROW – creative ruminations on web?
My title, “The Euphoric Cricket Tragic” is meant to capture the newly common day parlance for a lover of cricket, but give it the uplifting feel the word tragic does not convey.
Why a lover of cricket has to be called a “Tragic,” I don’t know. Apparently it was first coined for the Australian ex Prime Minister, John Howard. I can understand tragedy being associated with him. But where does “Tragic ” come from. A noun to describe a person with an enjoyable obsession? Come now. All the definitions I can find describe it as an adjective. And how does it relate to the enjoyment of cricket, when the word implies sadness, evil, distress and other horrible connotations.
So to provide the counterbalance, I have chosen the adjective “Euphoric” to describe my feelings about cricket. It may be a little over the top to describe my enjoyment of cricket as euphoria, but it does give me a lot of happiness and in recent times, elation , when I have found at age 61 I can still play, take wickets and score runs.
Cricket has always had a hold on me, not an abnormal thing for an Australian male. But is it a cyclical infatuation? So much of our life, our world experience, seems to follow cycles. The present great economic disaster is said to be a major downturn, hopefully not as bad as the Great Depression, before we return to another boom. Climate change sceptics simply believe we are just going through another warming up period which will be followed by an ice age. Personal emotions fluctuate between depression and ecstasy. The level of cycling varies in intensity.
So do people experience cricket in a cyclic way.
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