Select from a Plethora of Options – Aspire to be Happy

Every human being desires for a corner of the world to call his own – his home. For most of us, the initial years of working life do not leave enough financial space to acquire this home. At times, issues of time and distance deter one from concentrating on building ones’ house. Whatever the reason, a readymade solution, built with functionality and aesthetic beauty in mind had not always been an available option.

My father, a government employee, had a plot of land, at a place on the outskirts of Calcutta. At that time, the suburbs lacked infrastructure and my parents always had the dream that once the connectivity and other facilities improved in that part of the world, they would build a small house with a garden. As I grew up and assimilated the concept, I added my visions of red-tiled roofs and covered porches (a contribution of the books in which I lived), to their little house with a garden. My mother would often detail the plants, which would be there in the front garden. They were mostly the ubiquitous flowering plants, ornamental and decorative leaves not being the norm of that time. As the dream grew bigger, a kitchen garden was added. We were reasonable enough to keep out the option of potatoes and onions, but rest of the green, red, yellow and white veggies all found their allotted spaces. We stayed in the government quarters for 25 years, 17 of them, as I grew up. My mother tended to the two-room quarter with the utmost of dedication and love, all the time dreaming of her own little house. Ultimately my father never had the time or the physical perseverance to employ contractors, monitor them through thick and thin and get the house going. He sold of the plot and bought a flat in Calcutta under the government housing scheme.

This is not a rare story. We still had the small piece of land to build our dreams; many had built it on thin air. There were others among father’s friends and our relatives, who spent the major chunk of their working life in rented flats, all the while accumulating the fund to buy a home. Options of loans and more importantly investing in something which you really liked from the word go, were not so bountiful. Builders created houses and flat schemes that were military in appearance, so regulated and uniform were their designing.  

Today however aesthetically designed modern and functional houses, available under different specification, to suit individual budgets, are no longer a dream. While the basic infrastructure in the form of security, convenience, facilities, designing and utilities remain the same, you can choose from villas, row houses or differently sized apartments. Builders are conscious of customers’ requirements and the fact that visions have expanded with the world turning global. Today, within your reach are such world class facilities, visualised and executed by people, who believe that your happiness is their aspiration. Are you ready to find that happiness that you aspired?