#9 A Tribute To The Motherland!

          Mother is the one who nurtures her baby and teaches it all the right lessons. Motherland is a place where you feel homely and cozy as if you are in your mother's embrace, where you learn how to live, where you find your own identity, a place which will always lovingly accept you no matter after how many years you visit it. 

          There is always one such special place in everyone's life which one can call his Motherland. It can be a village, a town, a city, or an entire country. India obviously comes first to my mind when it comes to my Motherland. But one specific place that has made substantial contribution to my life till now is surely Ahmedabad, the city where I was born, the city where I learnt to walk and talk, and then also the city where I learnt to live.  

                                   "Jab kutte pe sassa aaya, Sehenshah ne shahar basaya"

          The city has a glorious history and many other beautiful things to boast about like its craziness for food and festivals, a list of marvelous monuments and also the simplicity that it has managed to retain in this age of glamour, but what attracts me the most to it is the spirit of the city. It is the spirit of Ahmedabad that energizes my soul and brings out the best in me. The spirit to fight it out and never to accept defeat.          

          Ahmedabad has taught me the true essence of life, be it facing my mistakes, accepting them gracefully, fighting even when I am wounded from within, delivering my best and not worrying about the results, valuing what I have and correcting myself at each stage to become a better person. And not only the lessons that it has taught me, but also the heartwarming home-coming feeling that I get every time I come here that makes Ahmedabad to be my Motherland in the true sense.