MY Role Model - My Mother

Role Models are a part of everyone's life. They help us get through life's ups and downs and teach us to become successful people as we grow. They are those who possess the qualities that we would like to have and those who have affected us in a way that makes us want to be better people, to advocate for ourselves and our goals and take leadership on the issues that we believe in.

In the midst of the modern world, we often look to our celebrity friends and elders for moral guidance. Just as we look to them as role models to be emulated in our lives, so do we learn from them when they falter and we may then learn how not to act.

When thinking about significant influence in my life, there are a few highly respectable individuals that come to my mind and the one who tops my list is my mother. A mother's life is anything but easy, she faces so many hardships to bring up her kids and family.

My Mother is definitely a celebrity in my life and very very young at heart. The word Mother is, probably, one of those few words whose very mention inspires a flurry of emotions in the heart of even the cruelest person and I am no exception. I am pretty sure almost, all of us are greatly influenced by our Mothers.

"All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother."
- Abraham Lincoln

My mother's power and charisma can't be matched by any other force on this Earth. Her greatness and sense of self sacrifice has inspired me, from time to time, to ink these feelings and emotions is a difficult job. My mother remains a great source of inspiration for me and will continue to be so.

"God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers."
-Jewish Proverb

She is the one who has taught me how to handle any situation and forever motivated me to give my best where ever I am. My mother connected every moment of her life with mine and did everything for my well being, even in the midst of the most challenging circumstances.

This writing of mine would be incomplete if I don't make a mention about two other women who have greatly influenced me and are continuing to do so, one is Barkha Dutt, the news anchor on NDTV and the other is Indra Nooyi, CEO, PepsiCo. I look up to them as an object of identification to whom I am strongly and emotionally attached . I know it is strange for me to build up a kind of relationship with people who I barely know and only way I am introduced to them is though the media, but I need to tell you that these people are not only those who give me entertainment, but also advice and support me in a lot of indirect ways. I always look up to Barkha Dutt for her confidence and her coolness, she has given all the Indian women the motivation to do what we want, her action of going to the front during the Kargil war is more than an example to prove that she practices what she preaches.

On the other hand is Indra Krishnamurthy Nooyi, who is the CEO of PepsiCo.She is a great lady who has achieved a lot only through her hardwork and earnestness.According to the polls Forbes magazine conducted, Nooyi ranks fifth on the 2007 list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women. Nooyi has been named the #1 Most Powerful Woman in Business in 2006 and 2007 by Fortune magazine. From the day I had seen all this I have been provoked to do better in my life too and prove myself to the world just like her. Indra Nooyi spent her childhood in Chennai and did her UG and then went on to IIM-C to do her PG. This motivates me further as she is also a native of the same place as I am and gives me the courage to reach heights as hers.

These three individuals are my role models of them are special to me in their own way. My mother who has always been by side as a guiding light and helped me in all my sorrows and joy, Barkha Dutt my source of inspiration and Indra Nooyi my mold of encouragement. By consulting to my role models I explore possibilities and imagine alternatives of how to create 'My own life'.

-Shamshuzia Syed

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