I am a sportsperson, hence a Geologist!
- Sandro Chatterjee
From collecting Rafael Nadal’s posters in schooldays to stealing money from my mother’s purse to watch India vs. Pakistan at Eden Gardens, Kolkata; I always dreamt big, when it came to sports and I still live with it. The ultimate legacy of the Samba football and the ruthless mentality of German blood- both attract me like iron shavings to a magnet.
Being smashed with statements like “Everybody is not Sachin”, a simple boy, bearing a simple family name, I had to give up my dream of being a jock, quite early in life. School days failed to motivate me to fall in love with any academic subjects and I got completely lost by the inexplicable chemistry equations. The playground appeared to me as the most exciting of them all. I had to, somehow, choose a career to pursue my dream, otherwise, I’d be stuck in a boring headspace throughout my life.
That’s when I stumbled upon Geology (Earth Sciences) and for the first time, in my life, I fell in love with something other than sports (P.S. -I come from an all boys’ school). Sports isn’t only played in the field, it is played in the cranium of the human brain, it is played in the sweating gym and I found the exact charm of a subject in all its academic beauty, in Geology. From the brainstorming concepts of structural geology to the unending shlokas of Stratigraphy, it will teach you to solve countless puzzles really fast, albeit with serious patience. It can lead you to the best destinations in the world; from the hot beaches of Maracana to the cold mountains of Alps, which even Lionel Messi dreams for a holiday. You can’t get grip of it until and unless you have the proper eyes to study the field, its structures and you sweat a lot through the terranes, to reveal the hidden treasures, exactly like Kante runs across the field for 90 minutes with the same passion and exhilaration.
That’s how to train everyday for a 9.58 seconds Olympic 100-meter finish
You might be a mediocre student and might not like quantum mechanics, inorganic chemistry, quadratic equations but you know you have all the potentials and need a stage to perform; Geology is the place for you. Carry your concepts and just explore the charms of field geology, you will come out as a star. The testing field arena will also teach you how unfriendly an area can be and you have to judge and plan well enough to come out at the top against all odds, otherwise, it could be a mess similar to what PSG put themselves in, in Camp Nou. Read the full story.
