A Person Who Inspired Me!

18/12/2018

(Please Note – I wouldn’t specify the name of the person, I would only describe the qualities which inspires me.)

Inspiration, what does the word inspiration means to you?

By the general definition of inspiration , it says , the process of being mentally stimulated to do or feel something , especially to do something creative. Looks too boring, Right?

 Generally by the word inspiration, someone means a person or a thing which stimulates or excites giving you enthusiasm to achieve a goal. Basically it motivates you to do a task and to achieve something in life.

It is quite natural that each person in life needs a motivation and some inspiration which constantly energizes himself/herself to gain self-confidence and achieve some goals in life.

As a part of my common experience, I have heard people talking about great people (Quite known to everyone)majorly covering all the popular stars around including politicians, celebrities , business persons etc. But here my theory of inspiration takes me to a different path from the others.

According to me, the person who inspires me is a “Common Man” who works hard day and night to feed his family and fulfil their needs. Though each common man works hard, but the person whom I’ll describe is a unique example of a common man. And here it goes…..

The person was born in Rajkot(a city in Gujarat) belonging to a quite rich and happy family basically from Mumbai(Paternal Side). He was brought up as a prince having his all wishes fulfilled on the day he demands. Generally he never used to demand stuffs as he was already facilitated with the things he needed. An another boy was born in a family who was treated as equally as him which made them a complete family. The family was a quite happy one as generally as others used to be. But the lights of this lamps were suddenly blown off by an unexpected incident which was a major turning point in everyone’s life of the family.

The two little boys who were treated as princes had lost a father and the lady(mother) was no longer a happy women as she lost her spouse making her a widow. The uncertain death of the father  created a huge loss to the family, and due to some of the family interrupters, the small family was isolated from the others and were cheated by some of the people. They were considered out of the family where all the wealth was distributed among the relatives of the family.

Now, the family was no more a happy one. They were left with nothing with themselves except a pair of clothes and few bucks of money which was saved earlier. The family somehow found a small room to live in where they settled to live the rest of their life. The elder boy was in 8 std while the younger one was in 3rd.Due to uncertain death of the father both the  boys had to withdraw their admission from the Convent school (which was considered to be a premier school for education) and were admitted again to a small government school.

As a part of the responsibility, the mother worked day and night with the sewing machine to earn some amount of  money to educate her children. But still she was unable to get all expenses done. Looking towards the situation of the family, the elder boy suddenly decided to help his mother out to get some good income and finally lead the family towards the growth again. He decided that he would again bring back the royalty and luxury to his family which was stolen by others. He started working in a printing company as a typewriter where he improved his typing skills and his vocabulary in English. He further continued his job with various company in printing industry. He used to wake up at morning 4 am and used to sleep at night 12 to manage his education as well as job. Many times he was punished by the school as well as by the boss in the job , but he always used to work hard without forgetting his goal in his life. He also used to skip his own meals so that he can fulfil the needs of his lonely mother and younger brother. Slowly he started learning new skills day by day while completing his education and achieved some good goals using his hardwork and blessings from his mother. He started working as a production manager in different printing companies where he was considered to be an expert of production. He soon started working as a marketing manager bringing himself up to the front desk from the back end of the company. He used his communication skills which was the major part of his career which gave him as well as the company a rapid growth. Soon he became a known personality in the market as he was considered to be an all-rounder in the world of printing industry. As he grew up with his career and inspired by his father he soon started working on his own company, and today he is considered to be one of the successful entrepreneurs in the printing industry. Hence he achieved his goal in his life by providing the same royalty and luxury to his family members. Soon he got married to a lucky women building  up his own family. Finally he succeeded in bringing up the family to the level where they deserve to be.

During my interactions with him, once I asked him about his education achievements. Despite of having few degrees he gave me a simple answer that he has done his masters in “Practical MBA” of his life and still he considers  himself a simple common man in this world.

His simplicity in this world of fashion makes him really a unique person. At last I questioned him the secret behind his success, and he simply gave me an answer that if one wants to be successful in his life, he has to work hard using the smart work ability along with time management. One has to compulsory go through the practical world even if he is the master of all the theories. Hence  he really inspires me and  teaches a real definition of success in life.

-Parth Thakkar.