The Whisper in the Noise... The Voice of My Soul!

This semester, one of our professors have us a very interesting project. He asked us to write an article. He asked us to write about something that we are passionate about, collect newspaper clippings of the same and submit it.

 

I thought a lot about what I was passionate about. A lot of things did come to mind also like coffee at barista, my college, my work, my articles, nature, events, driving and listening to music, adventures with my friends and what not. I kept wondering what to write about, until the golden thought struck me on the Pune-Mumbai Express highway.

I was thinking about all these things, but it took me a little while to figure out the common thread between all of my passions.

A cup of coffee is all I need to regain my sanity, but that cup has to be at barista in BARODA.

My Alma matter is the place one place I owe my personality to, but its in BARODA.

My work used to keep me engaged for 18 hours a day, but it was at Endeavor Careers, BARODA.

My articles are the way I feel, when I am in or outside BARODA. Nature to me is what my dad has introduced me to, which was in and around BARODA.

Music, friends and adventure, all these seem to loose its meaning as soon as I go away from BARODA.

My love, my life, my heart and my soul are in BARODA. So if I had to pick a thing I was, I am and I will be passionate about, it was to be, you guessed it right, BARODA.

I was born in 1986, in a small village called Kalol, near by a blossoming town called Baroda.For proper education of me and my brother, my father managed to get a transfer in the town in 1989 and we have lived that since then. I did my schooling for Gujarat Refinery English Medium School and then went on to do my graduation from SVIT, Vasad, although I stayed in Baroda only.

For any child the big moment for transition from adolescence to adulthood comes when he or she gets a first pay cheque. I got my at the age of 21. It was a cheque of Rs 3333 from PT Education for the month of February, 2007. After that I worked for Endeavor Careers and then tired to get into a good B-School. I managed IBS- Mumbai. But till now I had no idea what Baroda meant to me…

I was all charged up to start a new phase of my life, leaving a old one behind.

The first four months in Mumbai have passed by. It is said that Mumbai is a city that accepts everyone, a land where dreams come true and a home to any one and every one. I am sure this city has accepted me, but the heart wrenching question remains: have I accepted the city?

The answer is a NO… I am a Barodian, by hart, by soul and will always stay that way!