Video: Sachin Tendulkar in Aviva advertisment

Being a Sachin fanatic, I was in tears when he bid adieu to the sport. I was present at the Wankhede when he hung up his boots, and the speech he gave at the presentation ceremony made me cry like a baby. I was inconsolable. The world had crashed on me as I will never see my hero in the middle of a cricketing field in his cricketing whites. I wanted to soak all that in as much as I could. I knew this would never happen again.

But then, the other day Aviva came up with this cool advertisement. I was super excited by seeing Sachin in the cricketing whites, and it gave me goose-bumps. It brought back memories of all those magnificent knocks he had played and the matches he had won for India single-handedly. It was the closest I was going to see my hero again. I kept on seeing it on YouTube throughout the day. What struck me then was the great message the ad was conveying. Planning is equally important as dreaming. Plan now to ensure you realize your dreams. Even the great SRT would not have achieved his feats had he not planned for it.

Kudos to the thought and the way it is presented. And lastly, thank you Aviva for showing me Sachin again.