The Girl and Her Ultratech Castle #IIMTrichy Part-1Stories are memory aids, instruction manuals and moral compasses. So, let me begin with a story. In a land far away, there lived a girl who was very inquisitive, and her father was very proud of her, for no reason at all. The two ,used to go on long walks whenever the father used to get some time from his busy office life, and her father always tried to inspire her to fly. The father had been saving money, for their new home, a castle for his princess. Finally, the construction of the castle began, and the inquisitive girl gazed at the construction site, with eyes shining bright.The girl’s question to the father ,” Pa, why only Ultratech?” and the father answered, “because the castle Has to be the strongest.”“Pa, why do you use only Vodafone?” “So that I’m within your reach any time you need me.”“Pa, why do you wear only Peter England and Raymond? There ARE other brands as well ” “Because your mother finds me handsome ONLY in these.”The girl loved wearing new clothes as well. So, the father used to take her to the nearby Pantaloons store once every couple of months, and she used to splurge.Now, the girl is all grown up, studying Business Administration in IIMTrichy and connecting the dots looking backwards, amazed at how life comes a full circle. All her life, she’s been living in her Ultratech Castle, wearing Pantaloons’ robes and communicating with all her loved ones through Vodafone, using products of such a big Indian conglomerate such as Aditya Birla Group , which has made life of a commoner so simple and comfortable, and here’s her chance to be a part of it, to fly like her father always inspired her to. Part-2“Some fish love to swim upstream”The two most important days in one’s life, the day you’re born and the day you find out why. The biggest challenge one can face is the ultimate of challenge of finding oneself. I have always been very inquisitive and I used to ask myself a lot of questions, as in why I’m doing what I’m doing and would it even give me a sense of fulfilment.Not more than three years ago, I joined the corporate sector of India and I started earning for the first time. I loved the sense of independence that it gave me. A fresh graduate from college, I was living a life full of freedom, only for myself. Little did I know that the freedom came with a price. I soon realized (with the help of some counselling, of course!) that there was supposed to be more to life than just earning big bucks.The more aware I got of the world around me, the more detached I got from the idea of earning big money and more attracted to the idea of gaining power. I realized that power in this country needs to be in the right hands which know how and where to wield it. My aim in life is to rise to a position of such power in the corporate sector, where I can make a positive and worthwhile change to my organization and to my world.

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Vaidehi Gaur·15 Jul, 2019Share