Aditya Birla Group has played a big part in my life as I have been using products and availing services that are provided by Aditya Birla Group without actually ever stopping to think about it. Having the opportunity to compete for the Aditya Birla Group Leadership Program and thinking for a bit do I really realise that I have been surrounded by the products and services from Aditya Birla Group without even knowing that they are a part of Aditya Birla Group.
The most acquainted that I am with Aditya Birla group would most probably be Pantaloons. Before there were any Big Billion Day sales or End of Reason sales Pantaloons were sort of a high-end store for our family to visit and get the so-called luxury products and fashionable clothes during the holidays and they would be stocked up due to the festivals. And I remember I used to be so stoked about going to Pantaloons with my younger brother because it was the only place which had a bowling alley in our city and it used to be the rage.
Even during my senior secondary school days when I was in Vizag in my boarding school and mobile phones were not allowed to be owned by the students, amongst my total of 8 roommates we all went out and got Idea SIMs and smuggled our phones into the campus in cornflakes boxes. We got them because the network provided in the area of our college was the strongest by Idea. Thinking back now it brings in a wave of nostalgia. These were only some of the significant ways that ABG has been a big part of my life.
How I overcame challenges to achieve my ambitions in life so far?
Challenges are a very integral and huge part of everyone’s life which hinders or inhibits us in achieving our goals in life. Challenges are also the barriers which when overcome add to the sweet feeling of success that we get when we achieve our goals. Without the barriers of challenges in life achieving goals would have been a feeling of ‘meh’ but when you are faced with hard challenges and overcome them the achieving of goals increases happiness and the feeling of prevailing tenfold.
The biggest challenge that I have faced in my life would have been during my 12 th standard. During the month of August I came down with Chicken Pox and at that time I was present in my boarding school in Vizag. So that the disease won’t spread further I along with some of my friends who also came down with chicken pox were sent to our homes. For the chicken pox to fully heal took me around 2 and a half months and by that time our vacations had already started and when I went back to my school in October I was lagging in studies. It also happened that during that same year my father passed away suffering from liver problems in November. It was very hard for me to cope up and my studies suffered a lot but I endeared through the whole ordeal and change my mentality to think that if I can pull through this then I going to come out a lot stronger mentally and that I would be honouring my father by not sulking and giving it my all.