This world isn't big enough for both of us

 (all characters used here has no resemblence ton any person living or dead.its purely a work of fiction)

It’s the world war two, and the world is a deadly place. There’s no one you can trust, on whose shoulder you can cry, none to console you and of course no enjoyment in victory as there is no victory with no survivors. It’s a war after all

Its winter here and heavy snow storms make surviving tougher.  Germany was the centre of all activities. On one side were the German forces battling the alien forces an on the other side they were undergoing a major “pest control operation” within their own frontiers. Trade was on its high, “German blood” against “purification” of the country .children and young adults were given destruction toys, army training schools were set up. A secret service did services against the nation and not for it.the word “trust” lost its meaning and hatred was added to peoples dictionary. You don’t expect any good to exist in a place surrounded by evil, which were possibly for their own origin. But that was how Germany was….

The war was coming to a “unforgettable end”,everyone knew that and so did general Podolsky.describing words such as patriot,dedicated and brave were often  accompanied by words like harsh,insensitive,anti-social,destructive nature etc.he had been the in charge of the auschwitz since the “pest control” began as this is what they called it.he commanded  what the world later called “useless killing”.deporting men,women and children of all ages that belonged to the impure race here and their execution. Those wh vitnessed couldn’t just recall the seen.but general did.he took proud in it.but every man has a weakness, he also might had but no one knew.hs room was as secret as the project he was working on.noone had the access without his permission and everyone followed the orders as that is what they best did.one stormy night the general returns from his duty.he was tired and looked a bit scared,which was an unusual expression on his face.he was fear struck,as if he’s done something that can destroy his life.he was carrying a bag, a huge one.he entered the room ,quickly locked it,peeked through the window and with a sigh of  relief sat on the floor.putting away his fur coat, he unpacked the bag.what he then saw would have put most of us in shock after hearing to his descriptions.

There was a small baby ,blue eyes, curved nose, chubby face with little hair on his head. Oh!! My god. You must be wondering how come that happened, must have been a mistake. The general took him in his arms and kissed him all over his face. He was “crying” .he cried and shouted to his full extent as if expressing the pain he hid within himself. He took the kid in his arms and swirled him in the air, again kissed him and hugged him tightly.

He opened an old trunk,took out a red tshirt and a short which looked like that of a 2 yr kid.he dressed the baby and then took looked nostalgically on a photoframe.he bought the frame closer to the baby,and said “see child,don’t you look the same as he is?”.the baby look astonignly and starts laughing.this brings  a very cute smile on his face and also on the general .he says with affection, “you know boy,Johny was just like you , Sweet and cute .we all were happy until that one day he was sent for extermination just like you were sent here.you caught my eye today, else you would have been lying  amongst those frozen 1.2million.i am not going to let you go. Your not a best, your my boy”

The baby was the generals’ life. He was his joy in this battlefield. His smile made his day and his voice made him forget the screams of the day

“you are not my blood, but I won’t let your blood paint this ground or feed it to these vultures”

“the U.S.A.F strike is expected any moment, you are requested to evacuate the premises as early as possible, burn down offices and shut down the camps, I repeat shut down the camps. Copy that!!!”..

As the above statements were heard by the German officers on protocol radio, explosions began to be heard on the camp. The general ran towards his quarters. He wrapped the baby in a blanket and fled out in the jungle towards a river carrying the baby with him.

“don’t worry, stop crying…..daddy’s gonna make everything alright….”

He reached the bank and handed over “johny” to a boatman.”take him wherever you go and take care of him.he’s a special child.ok??” he told the boatman.he looked at the baby and said

“ hey kid,this world isn’t big enough for both of us…….goodbye”

Vote for me now!

Fear within us

Since the early ages of mankind ,competition has prevailed in life for every small need.

“Survival of the fittest”

Charles Darwin's words explain the need of competition in life, but along moves the fear of losing behind and that of not reaching our goal. mostly it happens the other way round. In order to move ahead and achieve more ,we have to compete; with other individuals, society and “’ourselves” . we get a key start when we eliminate fear.Strictly speaking ,only those who dare to conquer their fears ,have ever succeeded in their field of work.

“Fear keeps people small..

Embrace them.

On the other side of your fears, lies your greatest life”

When we aim at any target that we set for ourselves, mind jumbles into the though process; about the direction we would progress in , time consumption, happiness of winning and the unavoidable feeling of “what if I lose?”.Thus we start our progress with a positive approach .hardwork is many a times driven by the fear of failure.Even the most confident ones amongst us fear it.

“No one is ideal”

But this doesn’t mean ,those who lose do not deserve it.Everyone works equally hard.One day, I read a short story whose background was a fancy dress competition, and a totally unexpected result came of it.All the participants were awarded with” black and yellow ribbons”  contrary to our expectations of a single winner. An innocent participant asks his mother of the weird results. The award was a gesture to show that all are equal and to appreciate everyone’s hard work but somewhere within, this will stop the child to compete in future.

All his hard work ,will power, excitement goes in vain and he would stop his “hard work” which slowly with time becomes his “fear of losing”

But one shall remember that fears are meant to conquered.only those who learn from their mistakes, succeed in whatever they compete for.

“success is just a matter of hanging on, when others have given up”

We must be motivated from our fears rather than to get depressed and consider competition to be an integral part of life which will be with us like our shadow. We should always keep in mind that the happiness or enjoyment we get after achieving our goals is nothing in front of making mistakes, learning from them, correcting and then winning the race.

            

“Those who said that they never failed, had never tried anything new in their life”

What I present to you is at a very large scale and not an alley. Even actors and performers believe that they perform their best when they fear of giving a bad one. What we observe in nature is Darwin’s theory. But point comes what about the shopkeeper, who is ruled away, even he needs to feed his family? That my friend is the harsh side of competition which is proved by our history that for one civilisation to survive, other has to fall down; else we won’t be able to move ahead.

Most of decisions are led by “fear”, when we try to remove them we “compete” and when we are free, we are “successful.”