Ranjit Acharya
CEO, Prisma Advertising & Motivational Speaker
My mother has taught me many life lessons but the most important lesson I have learnt from her is adaptability. She adapts to every situation so quickly and adjusts to it simply. I have witnessed her as a daughter in law, a mother and a wife, managing home and juggling roles. With all these she manages her daily chores of exercises, cooking special dishes cooking and hour long bhajans too.
She is a fun loving lady who doesn’t miss a chance to perform in family gatherings too. Mentor to many, she is the unannounced counsellor to her friends and family.
Seeing her, I have learnt that the situation in front of us is ever changing and if we can change to adapt to those situations then we remain the happiest. I try to follow her footsteps and sometimes find it difficult but her resilience and not giving up attitude always inspires me to try again.
Anuj Shrestha
Co-founder, Lone Tree Marketing & Lone Tree Media
We don’t get a guide to life, what we get is a mother. What I have learned from my mother goes beyond life lessons. She has moulded me into the person I am today. However, if I had to talk about a single life lesson that I have learnt from my mother, it wouldn’t be anything that she has told me or guided me through. It would rather be something that I have learned from her by just being her son. I have admired my mother’s perseverance, how she has willed her way through every obstacle that has ever been put in front of her. The “never give-up” attitude is something that I have borrowed and has impacted my life more than anything else.
Nikhil Tuladhar
CEO, Index Furniture
The most important life lesson that I have learnt from my mom is the importance and the joy of giving. She has been able to achieve everything that she has persevered for in her social work. Most recently, with the Covid pandemic, as many people are in dire need of food, my mom has been raising funds to feed the hungry.
She took up the 100 days challenge to provide food for 100 people for 100 days. Everyone is amazed at how quickly she is able to raise funds and implement programs for various social causes, but I have witnessed the hard work that she puts in daily, not only to raise funds but to provide feedback and respond to the donors to gain and maintain their trust. It gives her great joy to be able to give back to society and this is one value I have grown to learn and intend to carry forward in life.
Ajit B. Shah
Director & CEO, Lotus Holdings
Warren Buffet says: I truly believe that I won the ovarian lottery to be born as my mom’s child. Having my mom has made me the person I am today, and I wouldn’t want it any different. Everything was absolutely perfect – the things she did, the way she did it, when she did it and how she did it.
I believe that children learn not from what we tell them to do but from what they observe from their parents. I have always been intrigued and fascinated with how my mom has lived her life and there is a clear lesson for me in everything that she does consciously or even unconsciously. To teach by example, by being the example herself was certainly the best parenting, and it’s been her consistent best practice.
The confidence that I have today has primarily come from my mom’s unconditional belief in me. I can think of many instances when my mom has taken my side and encouraged me to keep trying despite paramount odds as it seemed then. When I wasn’t sure about myself, my mom constantly pushed and encouraged me and told me that I would ultimately prevail and to keep trying and to keep working at it. She built in me enough self-esteem to be able to navigate the world with resilience, no matter what.
It’s difficult to choose one life lesson as there are so many, but if I was to choose one that I follow it by heart daily – it would be the idea ‘to never give up on your pursuit and dreams’. Inspired from my mom, I have made this the motto for my children today.
Najir Hussain
Actor
My mother always told me two things since I was a child: to live in the moment and to never be hesitant to learn something new. It has been nine years since I lost my mother. Even now, I remember these things at every step of life and try my best to implement it. Being from a Muslim family, we had a culture where men were not allowed to do kitchen chores but my mother and I used to cook together since I was 11 years old.
She raised me to become an independent man. It is obvious that every child finds his mother’s presence very powerful; I feel the same about her. The wisdom she has given me will remain with me for lifetime.
Utsaha Joshi
Rapper
My mother has taught me a lot. But one of the life lessons would be the importance of love and spirituality in life. I as a young boy used to get very distracted by all the bad things in the world I saw. I used to suffer a lot with every failure or loss. It was my mother who has been supportive of me throughout and has showered me with her unconditional love which also taught me the power of it. She taught me how to meditate and look inwards. She has always encouraged me to live a life of spirituality and compassion rather than materialism and competition.
Hercules Basnet
Music Director
I learned to help, love and respect everybody from my mother. She never asked me to but I always try my best to follow her. Besides I have learned to be strong from her as she never complains about being in pain or sorrow. She strictly follows a healthy food diet which is also something I got to learn from her. She is very religious and I believe in her faith. I miss home not only because I love her but because she loves me more; every mom does.
Bilal Ahmed Shah
CEO and Founder, Latido
Growing up I was a very troublesome kid, both in school and at home. Looking back at my report card, most of them had remarks of me being very restless. My mother had a very difficult time handling me and my restlessness. I remember as a kid, she would wake me up early morning, make tea for me and sit down with me and teach me the things I was supposed to learn at the school. She is a teacher by profession and I might have been the toughest kid to hold onto in her career.
One skill that she taught me and still does is “how to stay calm during chaos”. I realised most of the times chaos in life are self created and getting immersed into it and reacting proactively is natural. But her calmness has been my biggest lesson. For instance, if I got angry as a kid or troubled her, she would stop talking to me completely, literally she wouldn’t talk to me or react, that agitated me a lot but then that is how she dealt with my restlessness. Every time I go through difficult situations in life, I just try to stay calm and silent as much as I can.
She taught me the importance of emotional intelligence, she taught me how to be aware of my emotions because when I did something wrong she wouldn’t scold me then. She would wait for me to cool down and then she would explain things to me. Calmness feels simple but simple things are the most tricky.
