My first story takes me to my childhood days where I learned my most important value – #respect. I’m from a small town in Western Uttar Pradesh and women are not respected there and are not highly educated. But my mother, although she only finished middle school, had this aura around her and she gained the respect of others, and this taught me to respect myself. But what took time for me to learn was how to respect others. When I was 10 years old, I was disrespectful to the house help. The first 2 times, my mother tried to teach me to show appreciation and value people, but the third time that I was disrespectful, she taught me the lesson in a different way. She started to disrespect me. At the age of 10, I could sense the disregard, and that taught me a lesson that if I can feel this way with my own mother, then I should think about how others who are not related to me and are older must feel. And since then, this lesson of respect has been deeply embedded in me and that is also where my respect for time comes from.