“Fall seven times. Stand up eight.”
Failure hurts. To put it mildly, it’s a painful experience, one that many of us work tirelessly to avoid. Often, its effects can be long-lasting, leaving a mark in our minds, and creating a mental hurdle that can be difficult to overcome in later years. I’ve experienced my share of monumental failures. I know just how much it hurts to fail and to do it on a massive scale. Failure certainly left its mark on my life, and it wasn’t a simple matter of picking off the bloodied scar. The healing took time. But through it all, I came to some important realizations, much the same that other people do after pushing through failure. When we fail, we tend to ponder, searching for new meaning to our lives, exploring the potential for possible answers and solutions for achieving our goals.
I have always been a topper in my school life. After getting admission in one of the best economics colleges in the country, nothing could have stopped me. Various challenges came across my way. I tried to cope up with them. Not clearing CFA Level 1 was my first failure. I, still remember that night. Nothing could have made me stop crying. Moving on, my next challenge was to take admission in a reputed business school. In my final year of graduation, I took CAT exam and secured 81 percentile. It was then when I realized my career was going nowhere. I had hit rock bottom in my life. After graduating and seeing my peers with 99+ percentile and cracking IIM A/B/C, I was totally broken and frustrated seeing my other friends joining colleges. I realized I have to work with all my perseverance, passion and commitment and never give up. Giveup is for lesser mortals, for true humans it is never an option. The mind can move mountains, tomorrow is only a molehill. Finally on the D-Day, the timer stopped but I did not. Finally, I ended up securing 97.5 percentile and with all the hard work that I had put in for GD-PI preparation, I converted MDI Gurgaon.
Aditya Birla Group is one of the first names that comes to my mind when I think of Indian Conglomerates that have made it large in the entire world. ABG spans a total of 34 countries and employs 1,20,000 employees. This group hasn’t just made it large in the world, but has touched many lives including mine.
My whole life can be neatly knitted around the memories that Aditya Birla Group has gifted me with. I distinctly remember the 12-year old me and the summer of 2009. It was when Idea’s “Walk and Talk” campaign took the media by storm. My first and only sim that I use till date is a Vodafone Idea Limited sim and it’s nearly impossible to recall and count the plethora of bitter-sweet memories associated with it.
In no time, I embarked upon my MBA journey. It goes without saying that formal clothes are the second skin of an MBA student. Without a second thought, I resorted to Allen Solly and Van Heusen to rummage through and as one would expect, I got the exact clothes I wanted. These amazing formal clothes instilled an exceptional amount of confidence in me and helped me sail through the Group Discussion and Personal Interview processes with utmost grace. Walking into the sacred corridors of MDI, dressed up in Allen Solly, was sheer bliss. The kind of happy and confident I felt can’t be woven into words.
ABG has made me feel happy, overwhelmed, pretty and confident at different stages of my life and has an invaluable position in my life now. Its contribution in my life is unparalleled and it is so prominent that even Big is a small word to justify the part it plays in my life.
