A Mingled Experience

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The prose -- "A Mingled Experience"


Have you ever imagined about the maiden experience in the metro rail of a young girl? What will you say as and when you come to know that she is from a nearby place of Kolkata? Astonishing but true!

Yes, I being a resident of Uttarpara, Hooghly district, kept on thinking, “Now I'm going to ride the metro...”

It was as if I was taken to a new world of novelty. At first, walking to the Chandni Chawk metro station with all the chums, with Gopali Ma'am and with Aishwarya Ma'am, then climbing down the stairs to that blast furnace like platform even in winter, thereafter punching those blue round-shaped tickets, and at last, the final moment to ride that bullet-fast train gave me a lifetime opportunity to enjoy everything to my heart's content.

After getting into the vehicle, I was quite embarrassed that there were not many differences between this new kind of train travelling under the ground and the local Howrah-bound ones.

Some time later, Gopali Ma'am asked, “Is it really your first ride by a metro?” Giving a nod, I shared my experience with her.

Thereafter, I myself recalled of the specialities of the train while speaking to one of my mates, “One is that it is an air-conditioning transport, and the other is that there is no provision for anyone to lean outside the door.”

Coming back home, when asked by Mom, I expressed, “It was a mingled experience both of amazement and of tedium.” She replied gladly, “Nothing is completely amazing, nor is anything totally boring. Therefore, if you try to be optimistic in life, you'll find the novelty everywhere.”











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