Starbucks India-origin CEO shares touching story behind his missed Harvard chance and his mother's role in it
Starbucks India-origin CEO Laxman Narasimhan shared a heartwarming post on LinkedIn about his mother’s influence on his life. She was a lighthouse for me despite the many rocks that life doles out. «I am who I am and where I am because of her and because of my family. It’s a big void. She lives on inside me. God bless her, and God bless us all. Mothers do incredible things. It’s my first Mother’s Day without her. Celebrate all Mom’s on this Mother’s Day in the United States. They make us special,» he said in the post.
«She was the backbone of our family despite having lost 2 kids and a husband by the age of 48. She instead devoted her life to children- as a kindergarten teacher of many,» he said.
«She loved America- and wish she had come here when she was younger. Never once did she complain about all of this- all may be once, when I was upset with her that she had not posted my Harvard application. She read in a book that the college was too competitive and she did not want me there. She was relieved when Harvard called me to speak there once. She celebrated like I had been admitted there and felt less guilt then,» he said.
«She taught us about what living a life of duty meant. She moved in to live with us in 1997 and never left our side helping us raise two amazing kids. She stood by them through thick and thin- like she did for me- walking the streets of Bombay to the various scholarship houses to collect the money they said they’d give me while I studied in Philadelphia. Our difficult financial situation did
