There is always an opportunity in every calamity

Once my father said to me “There is always an opportunity in every calamity”, and this statement resonated with me during the harshest times of my life. My new startup was not doing well, many subjects in college was also in a backlog and the icing on this cake which was about to blast on my face was I had just 6 months to get all this together. With that quote in my head and hope in my heart, I gave it everything. In my startup my team and I started putting more focus on the customer, trying to understand what they want and how do they see this startup adding more value to them. Back in college, I started focusing more on the classes and going after classes with the professors to understand the electronics concepts better. This hectic lifestyle was difficult to cope up with and there were plenty of people to help me with it, so at the end of 6 months I had the results, I had passed my engineering with flying colors and my startup was also doing well with new customers coming in from referrals from our old customers. With this phase of life behind me, I started thinking of doing something big, something that will push the limits of what is possible for me. With that I sold my startup to my friend who worked with me and started applying for Business Schools all around India, this endeavor was going to be a long one as the schools not only had written test but also personal interviews. So to go into battle for my B-school interview I looked forward to the only company I trust “Aditya Birla Group”, the range of Van Heusen was best for the occasion. The realization that I will have that same familiar caring and looking out for you feeling gave me immense confidence in the interview. And with this, I could see that it was a start of a new era, and looking back at how everything turned out and the thought that a calamity can be turned around into an opportunity turned out to be TRUE.