Why Aditya Birla Group is big in your life?
“There is no love as pure, unconditional and strong as a mother’s love.” I came across this quote in my early teens, but little did I get the essence of it back then. I feel that one thing that a child starts taking for granted early in life is his/ her mother and I was no exception. Well, why wouldn’t I? She was the one who held me while I struggled to take my first step, sat beside me all those nights when I was burning with high fever, let go of her piece of cake for me and stayed awake with me in my panicky all-nighters before exams. Obviously, I took her for granted. However, I did not like the amount of attention I got from her and always complained about it. I complained that she was making me follow certain rules that were supposed to bring discipline in my life. Another thing that I complained about was the same old “Ghar ka khana”. Some of my friends would dine out with their parents in fancy restaurants as a weekly ritual and I wanted the same, or at least I expected my mom to cook fancy for me all the time.
These feelings started to change when I first stepped out of the home to pursue my Bachelors. What I expected to be an “Alice in the wonderland” experience turned out to be much less dramatic and exciting. I was not a homesick person, but I badly missed the person I had taken for granted all my life. She did call me daily at 10 PM like a ritual. But it felt like a piece of my heart was missing and was far away at home. And the thing I missed most those days was the same thing I complained about a few years ago, “Ghar ka khana”. I treasure that now, something I wouldn’t trade anything for. Every time I left home after the vacations, there was a tiffin box in my luggage without fail with my favourite “aloo parathas”, three in number, wrapped in an aluminium foil by Hindalco Freshwrapp with some pickles on the side. That was the only feel-good factor after coming back from home, back to reality. Even today when I leave home, I have that tiffin box with me and the sweet metallic crinkling and rustling of the aluminium foil always reminds me of that piece of heart back at home, my mother’s unconditional love. In that way, Aditya Birla Group has created some special memories for me. It wouldn’t be wrong to say - ABG, you have been #BigInMyLife.
How you overcame challenges to achieve your ambitions in life so far?
Someone has rightly said that “You’ll never be truly happy if you continuously hold onto the things you think you’re not satisfied with.” It is human nature to always want for more than you already have or have achieved. This was a challenge I faced for a big part of my life which brought me down at every stage. I always compared myself with my fellow folks to judge how good I was rather than to focus on how much I grew on an absolute scale. Be it the school annual report cards or the time we went to different colleges based on our IIT-JEE/AIEEE ranks. Somehow, a few years ago, I started to realize that nobody is “better” than another, they are just suited for different things. There was no looking back for me after that. I tried to assess what my strengths and my weaknesses were. I used my strengths to hone myself in different aspects and worked on my weaknesses to overcome the challenges I faced. It was not an overnight task and I continuously try to better myself in all ways possible. Now I can proudly say that this approach of looking at life has made me emerge as a better version of myself over time.
#ABGLPWooMe #ABG #XIMB
