Aditya Birla Group And My Emotional Connect - IIM Nagpur

Talking about my challenges, I must tell I respect humans a lot (even though the kind of harm they are inflicting on the environment knowingly and unknowingly), but there is one special category that I respect the most, it is the physically handicapped category. And I don't categorize such people, but since the government of India has already categorized them, I don't think I would be wrong to categorize them too. I don't tell this to everyone, but today when I was asked to mention the challenges I have faced in my life, I cannot think of anything else. Before you people make any judgments, let me tell you that I am not a handicapped (and I am grateful to God), but I have witnessed their life very minutely. The challenges they face every day from the time they wake up till the time they go for sleep. Reason being my elder sister is one. I won't define her challenges as mine but being three years younger to her, playing with her, having food with her, going to the same school with her where I have seen her fighting each day with her shortcomings. I have tremendous respect for her and I love her the most but when I was asked about the challenges I would say this that it is not at all an easy task to lead a life and to lead a life with pre-given disadvantages is almost next to impossible. But the determination that this category people has is at par from what normal people have. For me, the challenges I faced started from my school time when I used to teach my sister(she is hearing handicap) in the language she can understand better. I have always seen my mother doing these things for my sister, and when I was young I always tend to think that my mom is biased towards her, but the irony is now my mom tells me that I am biased towards my sister when compared to anyone else in my family. My challenges were mostly to make my sister get through her exams as being a handicapped, and studying from a normal school might sound easy for most of us but believe me when I say it is not. I have learned many things in my life from her be it patience, perseverance, calmness which were the qualities I lack but today I can proudly say that my sister is a B.Com graduate from a normal college and now preparing for government bank exams which are quite tough to crack for people like her, but her dedication never fails, and I am quite hopeful she will succeed one day.