Attitude of gratitude
wondering who this little girl is
or wondering who am i why should you be
listening to me and why
am i on this stage let me give you a
reason why
because i cracked the code
i cracked the code to a happier you
hi guys i’m deekshavura a blogger
a content creator a digital influencer
or all of the above
so i was born into an army family my
father’s in the army
my brothers in the army my grandparents
were veterans in the army so it’s safe
to say that i was highly influenced by
the way of conduct and the culture here
is when i was introduced and inculcated
with the three d’s of my life
discipline determination
and dedication so while i was
all up for being dedicated and
disciplined
i really wanted to add the fourth d
the d of diksha i wanted to add the
uniqueness
of diksha so let me take you through
or take you down the memory lane while i
was in school i was the teacher’s pet
i was the house captain i was
participating in
almost all the extracurricular
activities
i was winning so many awards i
absolutely rejoice the attention
so here is when
the year came when i had to decide what
i wanted to do for the rest of my life
according to most parents it’s the 10th
grade
i didn’t even know which ice cream
flavor i wanted to have
but i was to decide what i want to do
for the rest of my life
so i did exactly what i would have done
at an ice cream parlor
i took one scoop of everything
so i became a pcmb student
which is physics chemistry math and bio
not because i was a scholar or i enjoyed
studying
but because i really didn’t know what i
wanted to do in life
and i didn’t want to lose on any
opportunity
cut to the 12th grade i very quickly
realized that i’m
horrible at math and physics i was no
longer the teacher’s pet
my grades were dropping and according to
the society
i wasn’t doing quite well for myself
so back then there were three major
career options in the bharara family
a i could be a doctor
my sister is a doctor my cousins are
doctors
my uncle and aunt are doctors they were
fitting in the criteria
b i could be a teacher
what better career option for a girl
the license to a perfect married life
see i could join the indian army
and take the legacy forward and make the
bahara khandan proud
so i became a lawyer
why just
so i started pursuing law a five-year
integrated course of bba llb
this gave me five more years to decide
what i really wanted to do in life
now in these five years i started
participating in
fashion shows drama shows dance shows
and i was
winning all the awards the little
two-year-old me
was ecstatic though i was really good at
studies i almost stopped my college
but i didn’t have the courage to go up
to my family and tell them
oopsie i’ve wasted five years of my life
so i sat down for placements and to my
surprise
i was selected by one of the top firms
of india at the age of
22 i was offered a package of
22 lakhs which according to many sitting
here
is success i had an entourage i had this
beautiful office
i had this building which looked like a
five-star hotel and this life
which looked right out of a movie screen
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but i felt suffocated
i felt like somebody was stabbing my
soul
and one day i snapped out of it
that day i read somewhere never strut
with borrowed feathers and i thought to
myself
this is it i’m never looking back
that is the time i knew the way to
success
the moment the moment
you know what you don’t want to do
you’re a step closer to what you really
want
but let me tell you one thing choosing
the less trodden path
isn’t always easy they’re people
questioning you at every corner
they make you feel like you’re not worth
it like your dreams are too big like
you’re not good enough
though my family was standing by me and
my friends were
believing in my conviction and my
passion
you still have these external noises
these people who make you think that you
can’t pull it off
with a lot of hard work and a lot of
burning the midnight oil
the 3ds with the dash of the fourth one
stuck with me today i can proudly say
that i chose my life
i chose to let go of the societal
baggage
i chose the right and wrong and i
chose to carve my own future
so three years later here i am standing
in front of you
inspiring 90 000 young minds every
single day
and sharing my story of my choice
so today you may ask who is deeksha
to which i would say that the life
of this world is nothing but the harmony
of opposites and the life of diksha
is nothing but the harmony of choices
so make your choice and choose your life
thank you