The world is a
transient rest-house in which we all are strangers. This is perhaps best
analogized by a railway platform, which is characterized by short-lived sojourn
of people corning in and going out. The platform may be a special coinsure of
social Scientists or social psychologists because Of its peculiar atmosphere
doe to the co-existence
of people of different cultures and temperaments, but
it is no less attractive to a curious mind interested in human interactions.
Every moment, the railway platform, which is typically a vast place protected
by a high-hanging brick-built roof, bubbles over with people of all kinds—rich,
poor, impoverished— and goods. They being strangers to one another, people
behave strangely, while sometimes they do not behave at all. They are a crowd of
people having different destinations. That is why one, once in that place,
feels utterly lonely among those nameless crowds. Most of the time this bad
feeling is aggravated by the nasty and unhygienic environment. Now-a-days,
however, pick-pockets are a big threat for passengers.
After long ten years of schooling, a life of
confinement and limited liberty with somewhat suffocating experience of strict parental
administration, when I stepped into the college life, it seemed as if I were
promoted to a new realm of life. Gradually I began to get exposed to a wide
variety of experiences—new friends, social get-togethers, cultural functions,
new curricula, and above all, new feelings.
Thus I began to feel a sense of
'belonging to my own college. My college, I am convinced, has added a new dimension
to my life resulting in an escalation of my status and identity. Now, not only
I do not go to college regularly, but also get involved in, apart from the
academic activities, various extracurricular activities including social works.
It is due to the contribution of my college that I have gained socio-political
consciousness as well as new insights. My college, including our common room,
teachers, classmates, playground, the whole campus, is very dear to me.
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