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.