Just like everyone, my life has been a total rollercoaster ride as well, I mean who doesn’t have one.
Beginning a life with no siblings around means a tough childhood altogether. Making games for myself to teaching myself how to play with the first car sets I received for my birthdays, my childhood memories are flooded with instances of playing in the mud and hiding in crooks of houses so as to not get caught.
But alas, childhood ends in a blink of an eye and there you are with all the responsibilities over your head, people around you expecting you to set goals, and whatnot. But there we are, the same 10-year-old kid at heart, wanting to still play in the dirt and enjoy summer vacations to the fullest and setting goals and aspirations for people to be proud of us.
That’s where the real struggle began, the bubble which pops open and one realizes the kind of rat-race one will get into, to reach excellence.
People kept saying just two years of studying diligently in High School and there would be no need to study later – the lie that has been spun around thousands of students.
Things got real when taking admission to the finest colleges in India became a challenge when you see what reality is.
Usually, people end up being in the Plan B colleges and that’s what happened with me as well, got into a college where I didn’t plan to go.
But obviously, no matter how hard life hits you, you do not stop pushing back. Reiterating my short-term goals and modifying them presented a clearer picture before me – I was made for being an MBA, and Engineering was just a stepping stone towards it.
And so there began my preparation for the MBA exams, which lakhs of students take every year. On the side, I kept looking for a job in my domain. The people around me kept advising me to not sail in two boats at a time but isn’t an MBA about managing different tasks with the same priority. I realized that job and preparation for MBA would simultaneously make me better in multi-tasking later in life.
And Voila! Juggling between office and preparation for exams finally bore its fruits when I got an admission into my dream college Indian Institute of Foreign Trade. But the story doesn’t end here, there’s still juggling between PORs, Assignments, Guest Lectures and Academics, but isn’t this what makes our life’s each second worthwhile.
How Aditya Birla Group Has Been Big In My Life
There are brands that touch our lives in so many ways, you fail to realize how much of a necessity they have become in our lives.
From taking warm lunches to school crisply packed in Hindalco Aluminium foil and then playing football with that foil, to choosing shirts for my father’s next business trip in a vast Peter England showroom, I never realized how Aditya Birla Group knocked on the doors in our lives and became a part of it.
UltraTech Cement and its catchy TV commercials resonated during our childhood days, even though we knew nothing about buildings but could spot a cement bag meters away from a construction site.
College shopping sprees were incomplete without stepping into Forever 21 and Pantaloons – we had been made accustomed to finding everything affordable under the same roof and had fun putting up a small fashion show for our friends to choose the next outfit for the college party.
Late-night calls to parents and friends were such an ease with Idea’s reliable network, no matter how far we lived, seeing our parents on video calls narrowed the distance between us.
College was over; however, Aditya Birla Group never left our lives. First interviews in MNCs and we would be ready wearing crisp, formals from Van Heusen and Allen Solly, easy on the pocket and they would shine our confidence more through the HR panelist.
It’s hard to find a brand that stays with you no matter how old you grow up one day, and Aditya Birla Group is one such brand that has stayed through the toughest days of our lives.
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