“How Aditya Birla Group secretly helped me to achieve my goals”
I believe many of us 90’s kids will be able to relate with the transition that we had in the way our tiffin boxes contained food during our school days. Coming from a middle-class family, I distinctly remember how my mother used to keep used newspapers stacked so that they can be used to wrap the food in my sister’s and mine tiffin. This was true with almost my every other school friend and we never gave it a thought that it is something that is harmful to our health as its ink contains harmful colors, pigments, and other additives. This food packaging continued till perhaps 9th standard when one day I saw a product named
“Freshwrapp” in the monthly grocery items. I read about it on its outer package only to understand that it is an aluminium foil used to wrap food items. From then, we use to get our tiffin food wrapped in
“Freshwrapp” and I started feeling the difference in the originality of the taste of food wrapped in newspaper and that in
“Freshwrapp”. And there was
“Aditya Birla Group” who played a secret role in our wellbeing while we were busy planning and working for our futures.
Today, when I am grown up to take on the challenges of the world, I find
“Aditya Birla Group” standing just beside me with its retail stores Pantaloons, Allen Solly, Van Heusen and others. From professional meeting to a family wedding, from summers to winters, from walking to running, from my grandmother to my younger sister; Pantaloons hardly leaves the space to lost in for any class of people.
The Roller Coaster Ride on spikes
Yes, there I was in the second week of my engineering college still contemplating and mulling over the fact that I couldn’t make it to prestigious IITs. The entire one year of turmoil used to flashback again and again in front of my eyes only to reveal that I failed. During the intense period of IIT JEE preparation for around 10 months, I couldn’t remember a day when I haven’t studied for at least 17 hours. I still remember the way I used to tie myself to chair with rope so that I don’t go to bed even in the sleepiest state. I still remember the way I use to keep knife in my pillow so that even if I somehow open the rope myself I don’t go to sleep. I still remember how I used to beat myself with rope for missing out even on an hour of studies. I still remember how I use to collect used refills of my pen to remind me of my hard work in tough times. I still remember……………………………. As they say “Time heals all wounds”, steadily and slow I started coming over the feeling of loss to get aware of the fact that though I haven’t made it to IITs, I am still in a college which is a dream for more than 95% of the engineering aspirants. I will give a huge credit to my family and friends who instilled in me the thought that “do the best with what you have and forget the rest”. Honestly, I started studying half-heartedly in my 1
st year of engineering but when I came into 3
rd year, I got interested in the engineering subjects and my scores improved in the exams. In the final year of engineering, I was very apprehensive for the kind of placement that I will get with those average scores but to my surprise, I got placed in a world-renowned company under its flagship program. After joining the company, I met students from old IITs who were placed in the same program with me. The entire journey of IIT JEE failure to the joining day flashed in front of me to give me perhaps one of the important lessons of life that “No matter where you are, just keep doing the best you can and you will sooner or later but for sure land at your dream place”. Humble request: To all the readers, it’s a sincere and humble request that never torture yourself in any situation.