My Story So Far... :)

"Alis Volat Propriis" - It is a famous Latin phrase and my favorite one, which implies "She flies with her own wings", it gives me a lot of strength whenever I feel low in my life as "the most important part of living life on our own terms is having a self-belief and faith in the intelligent power that created us".

Every day we confront new challenges, we concurred some, we make mistakes, we learned the lessons and then gear up ourselves again the next morning with a new hope, as a success story builds overtime during the journey called life, we meet many obstacles in our way, but if we really believe in something, then no matter what troubles we confront, we humans are competent enough to concur anything in this world, I still, remember the day when my tuition teacher told me that "Nothing is impossible for us as a human, as God made us capable enough to achieve anything we want if we genuinely believe in something" and at that time I was just in 7th grade but I can still feel the vibe I get after hearing those words. So since then, my perception has completely changed of looking towards the life and I began perceiving things with "possibilities". 😇

There's a great saying by Gautam Buddha - "The life starts where fear ends" 😊

To me, my success lies in the freedom of my choices, the choices I believe in and should be able to take a stand at the end of the day, but the biggest hurdle to achieve that freedom is fighting with the inner fears and these fears could be of many types, but I'm specifying here the fears which I fought a great battle with, with some I made a victory and with some still fighting each day but not giving up, these are the fears which hold us back to taste life the way we want.

Some of them are; the fear of accepting who we really are, the fear of accepting the reality, the fear of losing somebody or something and the greatest one is the fear of being judged by society.

I was born and spent my initials years of childhood in the National Capital of India 'New Delhi' into a middle-class family and as a younger one to the two siblings, and since childhood, I was having friends from diverse communities so from there I got to know many flavors of the diverse culture in India, the individuals with different religious beliefs, different race, different mother tongue, and distinctive taste which somehow taught me acceptance, equality, and compassion and has raised so much love and regard in my heart, for my nation India and with this I had concurred one of the greatest fear - 'The fear of being judged or judging someone'

Another fear was fear of being alone and taking a stand on your own as during my childhood days my parents were working and I used to stay at home alone locked inside till the time my siblings are back from school and at that time I was just 4 years old, that must have been really tough for me initially but that thing has made me mentally strong and bold enough to confront the challenges in life and then that courage somehow gave me so much strength to take a stand-alone for what I believe in, one of them is to moving out into a big city from a small town on my own for pursuing my graduation with my favorite subjects but at that time my family stands up to this choice of mine in the beginning as they were not sure of my choice but afterward, they accepted it and were proud of me when I topped in my favorite subject for all the 3 consecutive years during my graduation.

                                                                                                                                                                     

At that point once again I challenged myself to battle another fight of life which was the fear of taking responsibilities, as I got chosen as a Class Representative during my masters, which taught me the art of dealing with responsibilities and it really upgraded my skills in terms of communication, problem-solving, organizational skills, and built the team-working spirit inside me and after that in the last semester of my masters I received my first job offer letter, and that was the moment my eyes were filled with tears of bliss as I knew that it is progressing to make me closer to my dreams and one of them is to make myself financially independent as to me financial freedom is to be self-adequate enough to get whatever I want in my life and to make myself capable enough to support my parents in their old age, which is I'm doing currently as well, I still remember one of my life's greatest victory was the day when my first salary got transferred into my account although the amount was not so big but for me, its value became a million dollars when I gave that first salary on my mother's hand and she was having tears of joy in her eyes as that was the day she accomplished the victory of making her girl financially independent.

But things didn't ended up here and life was waiting for me to give another roller coaster ride starting from grooming myself each day into a corporate environment, transforming from a student to a working woman, switching my work profile from a totally different domain to the one I wanted to be in but now I know that I have to live my life on my own terms and I am not going to give up for the things I really believe in then no matter how hard it's going to be because it will all be worth it at the end.

"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful" and there is no biggest joy of living a life with a purpose. 😊

P.S. -I am so blessed to be born in a family where my parents have raised me just as a 'Human Being' irrespective of gender, I am so grateful to have them and some of my close companions in my life who always get me, the ones who never think my choices are odd, the ones who gladly cheer my victory, the ones who always cherish me and there for me in the tough moments and in the process of my self-transformation throughout this journey, and the way they accept me as I am completely priceless!!

Thank you!!

Chandani Kapoor