Have you ever heard of people who were born in the 60s and hoped for daughters; well somehow I managed to be a part of one such family. From the very beginning, my father has taken pride in his daughters like father’s do in their sons.
In the 2000s living in a place like Old Delhi, with two young daughters (12 and 2) wasn't the best idea and so naturally we decided to move to a better place, a safer place. Hello Gurgaon, Hello New house, Hello New Life and Hello to the beginning of my journey with The Aditya Birla Group. I lived out my childhood in a secure place made of UltraTech Cement.
But then, as I grew older, I started spending more time outside than inside, I started going to school and shopping sprees in my house became constant. What followed, however, was far more interesting - fashion shows in our parent’s bedroom with the whole family every Sunday and the highlight – Pantaloons. Every single Sunday for at least a few years, Pantaloons was like Sunday Church. It was a Ritual.
Few years passed by and hey its time to graduate. We all know a basic Delhi University girl and we all know her wardrobe comes from Forever 21 and I was no different. Now I’m doing MBA and realizing how from day one the Aditya Birla group has been a quiet companion all these years and it still is. Shifting from one place to another, from my own bedroom to a shared hostel room, the Aditya Birla group has made it with me this far, this time in the form of business suits and shirts. Van Heusen and Allen Solly making sure that the brand conscious in me didn’t have to go to the colony aunty to make my suits and making sure that girls never felt left behind. You’d think I was done, but NO, ABG impacts me to this day.
Very recently the reason behind my 32 teeth smile was spotting Ted Baker in India, and you already know who’s behind that. Life, however, isn’t always as happy and successful as little text posts and Instagram pictures make it look, I wish I had incorporated ‘’ Failure is not fatal, it is inevitable ‘’ - Kumar Mangalam Birla’s success mantra in my life much earlier than I did just to bridge the gap between how happy life seems and how happy it actually is. Not believing in myself has been one of the biggest obstacles of my life, the kind that only created more obstacles.
The thing that prevented me from taking risks was the fear of failure, which in reality meant that not only was I saving myself from failure but also closing all my doors to success. This mindset changed as soon as I realized that I was average, not a failure but not a success either. New situations, new people and a change of environment in college actually helped me push away my inhibitions. These inhibitions also came from the fear of being judged, but new people meant that I again got to decide who I really wanted to be, and this time I was choosing success.
