A personal experience of mine

A personal experience of mine has changed my perspective about how the mentality of modern men or our citizens are changing with time. On 3^rd January 2019 while coming back from my office all of a sudden I fell sick and started feeling very uneasy. I had a severe headache and pukish feelings.

When I arrived at Shyamnagar railway station on that day around 9.00 pm to travel for my home, I wan not in a good condition and thus, left two back to back trains. After splitting some water on my face when I felt little better I had decided to finally get into Gede local around 9.20 pm. But as soon as I exposed to the heavy cold wind in the running train the headache and the uneasy feelings seemed to become more intense. And afterwards, when I reached Ichapur, although I was supposed travel up to Sodepur for my home, I was forced to get off the train there due to my sickness. 

Immediately after I got down at Ichapur, I started vomiting. The incident repeated more than five to six times and in between two trains left for Sodepur. It was around 9.40 and the temperature seemed to have dropped further every moment passing by. In such bone-shaking cold my condition became really worse and on top of that I was already exhausted due to my illness. However, gradually when I started feeling little better, I realized that the station was quite empty only a handful of people were present there. Amongst the crowd there was a group of eleven people, who were playing cards in just less than a fifty meters distance from where the entire incident was taking place and I was literally struggling to stand on my own feet. I also noticed that on platform no.4 just the opposite side where I was standing,  four young chaps aged between twenty five to thirty were sitting and literally having fun among themselves and as the platform was quite empty thus, the sound of my vomiting was pretty much audible  for all of them present there. But unfortunately, those young boys sitting at platform number 4, only passed some funny comments, hearing the sound of my vomiting. On the other hand the group of people who were busy playing cards perhaps did not feel it even necessary to shift their focus from their work, even though all the incidents were taking place in front of their eyes. 

The entire incidents made me feel really vulnerable when I finally reached home and felt better to review the full experience that I had been through that night. I presumed that most of them, who were present at Ichapur railway station and busy enjoying their leisure time playing cards and gossiping, seemed to have assumed me as a drunken person. And they must have thought that I was under the influence of alcohol, which is why despite the fact that I was suffering from illness they remained inactive in extending their helping hands. 

In view of the above stated fact, I would like to highlight the mind-set or rather the reflection of the prevailing cultural obsession of our society which has occupied mostly the negative side of our mind immensely in the present time. The assumption of those people that day about my condition was nothing but their some past experiences where they might have seen drunken person vomiting and tumbling after consuming alcohol. Hence their acute past experiences seemed to have held them back to step forward and inquiry to know the exact scenario of that night when I was struggling so severely. This simple experience of mine made me realize how important it is to inquiry about every incident that take place in our daily life instead of pursuing some misconception or false assumption in our mind and simply avoid it.