It is not an accident that Messi has not won a trophy with the Argentina national team despite winning all the significant trophies that came his way at club level in the last ten years. To therefore now say that Messi is a failure on this basis, will not only be tantamount to a barroom judgment, but also, it will confirm the ignorance of those who adjudge without due recourse to fatalism.

William Shakespeare, one of the all-time greatest dramatists that ever walked through the surface of the earth between 1564 and 1616 said ‘All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players’. Meaning, all our activities including all that we will become on earth before we were born had been predetermined by an author. We are only mere actors on stage (life) acting according to the script of the author. Put simply, whatever inaction, or action we take, whatever laurels we win and whatever height we attain, they are only an expression of what has been written –and no one is permitted to act outside the script. Otherwise, the whole plot will make no sense.

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