PART A
Today the name Aditya Birla Group is synonymous to trust, quality, memory and hope. Founded in 1857, ABG has seen many ups and downs and still stands tall in the corporate world, redefining success, standards, Excellence, responsibility, and innovation. The ambit of ABG is so huge, working in 14 Industries globally, that it has touched everyone's life, whether be in the village or metropolitan city, in one way or other. Everyone knowingly or unknowingly uses ABG product and admires it for premium quality and value it provides. For a long time, I was in awe of ABG Fashion products to the likes of Peter England, Allen Sholly and many others before realising a few years back in 2013, when I passed my 12th, that all of them come under the same umbrella. I could remember my graduation days; most of the clothes that I bought was from Pantaloons. I was and still am in love with the product, value, and customer experience pantaloons provide. From Wearing Peter England in my 12th to wearing Van Heusen now in my college days, ABG Fashion retail has always catered to my changing needs and has given wings to my fashion sense.
For me, one thing that stands out among others is the work ABG does in the form of CSR. It is the hope that ABG creates, and the way it nurtures it and turns them to reality is more profound than any impact ABG has ever created on me. Because every time I see hope among children and people ABG helps I remember a quote “ Hope is a good thing, maybe best of things and no good things ever die” and I firmly believe ABG will turn these hopes into reality. I believe so because of the immense effort ABG has put toward this like providing 450,000 solar lamps to school children, immunising 70 million children against Polio, Providing midday meal to 63,000 children, and many more. These efforts by ABG has created the greatest impact on me as well as on society.
PART B
Life is full of challenges, at every stage, we need to tussle between choices, and some of these choices act as an inflexion point for our life. So, at every stage, i tell myself whatever choice I make, I will never know what I could have achieved if I would have taken other choice, so it is better that I make use of this choice such that, I can say I would have missed this if I would have chosen other path. One such situation came when I passed my 10th exam and decided to go to a different school for my 12th, away from the family for the first time. Going away from a familiar setting to an unknown setting, going away from the comfort of the family to the real environment took a lot on my mental and physical health. I was in a situation where I could not understand my way around; I kept on thinking about my earlier condition and how bad the current condition was, I felt uneasy and cornered among new people in my class and was not unable to understand a thing. As a result, my grades started dropping, and by the end of 11th, I decided to quit the new set up and return to the old comfort zone. I talked about this to my Mathematics teacher; he told me one thing. The reality is what one should pursue, even if it makes you uncomfortable because once you know how to deal with reality, you can never become uncomfortable. At that time I somehow persisted and kept on studying hard, trying to deal with the choice I had made, and slowly I improved, dealing with reality, I finally passed with a very good score, but I still remember the valuable lesson I learnt from my teacher, It still helps me overcome a lot of challenges life throws at me. Today I say to everyone that the score I got in my 12th was because I had taken the choice to change the school and not to quit.
