My First Post

I am a 26 years old woman. My life is not exciting enough so that people would like to read about it, but it has ups and downs, classic twists, tales of heartbreaks, rejoices and plain old fun. I was born in a sleepy little town in West Bengal, studied in a local school (let’s call it ‘Greenview High School’), went to a big university in Kolkata to study Applied Mathematics (Let’s call the University ‘Terranova University’, in short ‘TU’) , spent one year after getting my master’s degree trying to find my place in this world, couldn’t find it, came back to my hometown, started working in a big bank as a clerk (let’s call the bank ‘Fastlife Bank’). And that’s enough for an introduction. My story starts her, so let’s dive in. I joined Fastlife Bank on 29th January, 2014. That first day was scary. I have been to banks before, but I always stood on the other side of the counter, and went out as soon as I got what I needed. But this time I was sitting on the wrong side, unprepared in the extreme, and pitifully vulnerable. My first colleague was Kyle Halden. He was a nice enough person. I screwed up three times doing a simple job that day...but he didn't even mentioned it, and corrected me everytime. But I don't know why he scared me a little bit. But I would get to know him better later. I didn't have my password on the very first day. So I spent the day basically just sitting on a chair. There was another girl in the office, Shirley Bernstein. But on the first day I was so pathetically shy that I didn't even talk to her. Later I would become friends with her and come to know that she had thought that I didn't know how to smile. That wasn't her fault. I really did forget how to smile on that particular day. But I was terrified. I don't know whether the first days are always scary like this. I have had several first days- first day at school, first day at college, first day at a new hostel and so on. But I can only remember a faintly hopeful state of mind with a hint of nervousness and excitement. But the first day at a job is different. I felt like I had been free all my life, but from that point I was owned by a big-ass bank. That did little to lift up my mood. I eventually got through the day, went home and slipped under my blanket. But I didn't know that my whole life was about to take a big turn. Because now I know that this job has given me and taught me more than a whole life of studying by the night lamp. But more on that later.