Mumbai - the city of life

When it comes to choosing a city as your favourite, it has to be the one you live in. Not because you live in it but for everything that it gave you, the moments of joy, liveliness and the air that you breathe. Something about Mumbai always fascinates me, it surprises you with its hustle while you are here and it makes you feel nostalgic while you are out. It owns you and you own it, everyone belongs to it just as it belongs to everyone.

These three things make Mumbai the best city there is:

Drive

It is often famed for what it has for everyone who comes here. The city of dreams they call it. A city doesn’t gets raved this much just for the opportunities it gives or the livelihood it provides. The city has the energy to give wings to your dreams, to let you fly, to make you believe in yourself and the vibe that it has to let you be who you want to be. Mumbai drives you to be better at everything you do. The glimpse of any cross section of the city fills you with hope in some way or the other.

Design

Everything that feels good is designed to feel so. When it comes to the city as a whole, Mumbai is beautifully designed along its breadth. The city just feels nice to be in. You can go wherever and feel as comfortable as your home in Mumbai. Be it the beautiful queen’s necklace or the elegant sea link, everything just seems gorgeous. There are parts of the city not much developed to please our eyes but it feels good that we embrace every part of the city and want to see it become as good as the best places in our city.

Connect

You can be complete strangers and yet connect with them the first time you look into each other’s eyes, this is the level of connection that people in Mumbai share. People will win your hearts over by gestures that you wouldn’t have expected of them, it doesn’t matter if you don’t know each other by name but everyone is willing to help everyone else. A city is made of its people and when its people are so cordial to be with, you connect with its people as much as you connect with the city itself.

Of course there are things we aren’t proud of as Mumbaikars, but nothing in this world is flawless and like we are with our loved ones, we are biased towards the good things leaving all the negativities aside. It is not perfect, but we love it the way it is and always shall do so. And like you pray and wish for something you love, you always hope it gets better and never disappoint its people over something it can’t do for them.

This post is the result of a great initiative by Tata Motors for #madeofgreat, who believe only those can achieve great things in life who are made of great and not everyone but a few in a millions are made of great, just like the cars they build.

My Father is Made of Great

Greatness is not something what we feel lies within us. Greatness is something that others sense within us. The way they tread their life overcoming all the difficulties, the way they stand out from others and the way the live their lives. That is what makes them great. A person who knows the obstacles yet has the courage to defy the conventions and come out as a winner in life is someone who is made of great.

While we all idolize celebrities, superstars, world class athletes all for the right reasons and they deserve to be revered, we forget those who made us who we are. The one who is made of great is selfless in all his endeavours and tries to make our life better with their greatness. For me, it has always been my father.

Guidance with freedom

Most parents are either too independent of their children or snatch away their freedom and want them to do everything their way. Either way is the wrong way, one needs freedom to make their own choices yet guidance on what those choices would lead to. I have been extremely fortunate to have parents who raised me exactly the way one should, I now realize it how important it is in our upbringing.

We need to be sensible enough to make our own decisions and know that there are people who we can rely on if it doesn’t works out. Our parents are the closest people we have. My father has always given me freedom to do what I desire to yet guide me at the right places and protect me from being hoodwinked into something wrong.

An epitome of success

When you are among people who have achieved a lot in life, you want to become like them. If I ever become a person like my father is, I would be more than happy for it. During my days of growing up, I have seen his hard work and the change in the life he gave us. We were from an extremely modest background and now, we are way more than how we financially were a decade back. All because of his hard work and resilience. One needs grit to support his family and achieve spectacularly in life.

I have known the importance of failures from him, nothing has happened overnight, he is successful because of overcoming and being persistent through all his failures. I am hugely inspired by this and wish to inculcate it in myself.

Unconditional love

I have learnt to love because of my parents. My father has always taught me to love without any conditions, and I can see the testimony of it in the way he loves our family. If we love someone for a reason, we have other motives behind it but when we love without any need for a reason, it is true love. And I have learnt what true love is through him. Being happy in my happiness and supporting in all good what I wish to do, is the sign of his love.

He never demands something in return for it, he says that his family’s happiness is what brings him happiness. And for me, that is what true and unconditional love is.

All that I am and shall ever become I owe it to my parents, they’ve had the most positive impact in my life and that is what shapes me as a human being to lead a good life. My father is truly and undeniably Made of Great for all that he is and makes us to be.

Tata Motors

This post was inspired by Tata Motors, who believe that only someone who is Made of Great can build trust, simplicity and a sheer commitment to innovation. With this, they’ve also associated with Lionel Messi, who in himself is made of great and resonates with the brand Tata Motors.

Would love to hear who in you life you know is #madeofgreat, tweet it with the hashtag to @tatamotors. If you’re on Facebook you could like and share their page Tata Motors. And watch this brand new association of Lionel Messi and Tata Motors on what drives them from within us what makes them great.