Aditya Birla: A Visionary opening to a vibrant new world
Aditya Birla Group, a name, a brand that is there in various sectors, thriving excellence everywhere it is. Aditya Birla is one brand which is present right from Insurance to Industries to Retail to Telecom. The tag line for Aditya Birla cement” Bade Iraado Me jaan daal de” is something that has motivated me ever since then. That advertisement which features a girl in a yellow helmet assuring to build a safe, strong house actually motivated me back in college during my placements. It so used to happen that in quite a number of interviews for core companies I somehow used to get rejected in the last round. I had literally lost the hope to see my dream of working in industry as an engineer, getting fulfilled. Sitting and surfing the internet, I saw this ad and it somehow triggered me to give a new fresh start to my aspirations. Truly shown in one of the ads by Aditya Birla Capital Financial Solution that ”A vision becomes a milestone when it helps make our lives richer with love and laughter”, this dream of mine which had lost its vigor, was propelled by this motivation to bring my projectile back to its trajectory. The in-house brands of Aditya Birla like Allen Solley, Forever 21, Ted Baker, Pantaloons have accompanied me in every interview room that I have gone. So as it says Aditya Birla, “Always big in Your Life”, has indeed been and will always be big in my life.
“A Story that made me love myself even more:”
This is one incident which I will carry right with me to my grave, because it actually shook me to a great, a very great extent and it took me some time to realize what actually had happened. This happened one year, eight months and twenty-two days back in my life, a day to remember. I had always been this self-obsessed girl, who never used to get tired zooming her own pictures and having a look at them all the time but that morning things took a U-turn atleast for a pretty long period of time. It was all hail and hearty a day before and that morning when I got up, I saw some white spots on my neck, thinking it not to be that serious an issue and considering it some sort of infection, I ignored it for a day or two and then it started. In a span of four days I got it on my face and that scared me to death. I consulted a dermatologist and even he thought it to be some seasonal infection, I went home feeling a little relieved that I would be perfectly fine in a couple of days. I took all those medicines regularly but to my surprise, things worsened. It started spreading even more. I visited the doctor again, and this time he confirmed that that was Vitiligo and practically there never has been any cure for it. I was literally devastated. I consulted many doctors across the country but things never got better except that that it broke me. Even now that I talk about it, my heart starts beating at an irregular pace but now the acceptance level has definitely reached a state I myself never would have imagined at that time. That was the time when I literally stopped seeing myself in the mirror and to add fire to the fury I could not give my best in the MBA examinations, I lost hope in everything and the world seemed so bleak then.
As we have heard that “Time and Tide heals everything”, in my case it was time and more than that the support of my family which gave me a new zeal to start again. I started with small baby
steps, I tried not to shed any more tears, I tried and started meeting people with ailments, with people who were left alone in the walks of life by their own near and dear ones. I started realizing that this is nothing provided I stay strong and start accepting things because yes life can never be fair all the time and you just cannot keep complaining about things you do not have a control over. I started facing more people without covering my marks, started uploading my pictures without any mask or cover and then I felt it was my internal fear which was letting me down. I garnered all that I had lost and prepared for my examinations balancing my job life as well and today I am here writing this article stating my story how it impacted atleast my life, how it taught me to stand and fight back against all odds. The story of my life which made my family love me even more and made them believe that now I had certainly gained something, a real something out of this incident.