Role Model

Who’s your ‘Role Model’? I was asked this question during my interviews as a fresher. I guess each one of us have faced this question at some point of time in our lives.

Every time I face this question (back then and even today) makes me think only one thing, do I have one particular Role Model.?? And my answer is NO.

Why????

Dictionary Meaning of Role Model: A role model is a person whose behavior, example, or success is or can be emulated by others.

Now, in my life I wear so many hats, like that of a daughter, sister, friend, professional, partner, student and many more. So for all these roles that I play, how can I have one Role Model……I can’t. Reason being I cannot have my Role Model in area of Spirituality also as Role Model in my Professional life. They are two different people with different ideology and completely different lives.

For instance, my mother is my role model in the area of parenting and motherhood. My dad is my role model in area of managing personal finance. When it comes to cooking and love for food, it’s my mother, dad, my colleague, my hubby…these people love cooking and love food too. So their love flows in their cooking. And I am trying to imbibe this quality in me. When it comes to Social Media, I look up to my colleague. I am amazed by her knowledge on the subject and her activeness on the Social Media platform.

The point I want to highlight is that, how can one have a common role model for all the roles that we play in our life?

But, one thing that is common in all these roles or areas of my life is the ‘Self’. My conscious is the same. My values and attitude remains the same. So what I am as individual will reflect in all the areas and roles in my life. So every day I try to work on my ‘Self’, which helps to excel in every aspect of my life. What have helped me in the same are yoga and meditation and ‘Art of Living’ (Sudarshan Kriya, Seva and Satsang). The above processes give me peace and happiness and energy which in turn reflect in all the roles that I play:-))