DIE BIG

                                                                                             DIE BIG

           “There’s real happiness in living for the one who loves you and in dying in the place of someone you love!” Make your life true and your death worthy. So live as if you are gonna die tomorrow and die as if you’ll live forever!

           Everyone wants to go to heaven, but the irony is nobody wants to die, yet being the ones who can never make it! If we wanna see heaven, I say, we have no need to die… If we are ready to die and have guts to die any moment, any time, then each moment turns heavenly. One thing that makes our life hell is the ‘fear of death’! If we can stop death, then no need to worry! If we can’t, no need to worry or even try! So, leave ‘fear of death’ behind and turn your life into heaven…

              I’m not afraid of death and so am really like in heaven all the while. But it is hell worrying every moment that I may die for a worthless cause! I had this feeling, kinda phobia since my childhood and it got strengthened since the day I watched this movie “The boy in striped pajamas”, starring, Asa Butterfield. Yes, this movie moved me to the core of my heart. Bruno (Asa), a German kid, was typical of his age. The twelve year old boy and his sixteen year old sister were kids of a German General, dwelling in a highly secured villa in the premises of a locale that seemed like a refugee camp.

             There’s a huge tower, a few yards away from their home and within the refugee camp, from which fumes spew out often, wafting up bad odours through the air. Whenever Bruno brings up that matter at their dining, his dad always skips the matter away or convinces his family saying that it’s only due to the dump that was burnt in the chimney. He also inhales the fumes like they never were stinky at all, while everybody else clip their noses with their fingers, choking!

'Boy In Striped Pyjamas!-Gasing Camp.'

            One day Bruno absconds, tricking the security, guarding their home and reaches a place fenced with barbed wire, which seems to him like some sort of camp. He meets a boy, pale white in color, quite filthy and wearing striped pajamas, on the other side of the fence. They pal-up in no time. Bruno, discovering the chimney being belonging to the camp, asks the boy about it and learns from him too that they burn garbage there. Thenceforth he keeps visiting the camp boy, who always stays away from the rest of the mob in the camp and close to the fence.

'Bruno's Father.'

'Bruno & The Boy!'

            One day the boy tells Bruno that his parents were missing from the camp. The very night, Bruno witnesses his father not resisting his lieutenant from killing their albino (a Jew) valet, who spilled water on the dining table in spite of himself! His father doesn’t even feel sorry for the Jew. Bruno, his mother and his sister go pale with fear, looking at the inhumane and merciless act. Bruno’s father, afraid that his family may discover about his actual job, resolves to send them away to another place till the end of Second World War. Bruno thinks that stinks! He wants to see his friend for the last time and bid farewell to him. Just before their departure he absconds away to the camp and learns from his friend that his grandpa was missing too. Bruno asks him to fetch him their pajamas so that he could enter the camp, get camouflaged with the rest of the refugees and help him find his grandpa. The boy brings striped pajamas to Bruno as he was told. Bruno asks him how and where he got them. The boy says that there were many pajamas in heaps at the foot of the chimney. Then Bruno pops into the pajamas and enters the camp, leaving his clothes behind at the fence.

'The Boy & Bruno Amidst The Mob In The Gasing Chamber :'( ...'

                  Then they set out to search their grandpa. In course, they get pushed into a mob, being chivvied by the German army into the foot room of the chimney. Then the army soldiers denude them! Bruno’s father finds his son missing and goes after him. He finds his foot prints and discovers to his astonishment that they led to the camp! Bruno realizes what job his father was doing, why there were heaps of striped pajamas at the foot of the chimney, why his friend’s family members kept missing and why his dad didn’t spare their albino valet, being a Jew! He holds his friend’s hand tight!

'He Could Have Cried Out-I'm The Son Of The General,
But What Difference Will It Make?'

                 The chamber gets closed. Bruno closes his eyes. He could as well have cried out, “I’m the son of the general and here’s my friend. Spare us!” But what difference will it make…? He could save alone himself, but the extermination will still go on without the least change in the thoughts and brutalities of his father and the German army as well. But his death, he thought must put an end to everything!

             

                    Bruno’s mother and sister reach the fence and find his clothes there. His dad reaches the fire chamber finally and discovers the fumes have already started coming up. His heart throbs rapidly. He gets, his suspicions were right! “Bruno!” he cries with a voice like thunder out of agony and pain, which his wife and daughter hear from afar. The screen darkens. A faint wailing of the heartbroken mother is heard… And for the first time Bruno’s father feels, the fumes really stink!

Dead, But Happy Child In The Arms Of GOD!

            Bruno saved rest of the Jews. Not actually, he saved humanity at the brink of extinction! The dead, but happy child...

Leo Tolstoy

                 I’m too waiting for such a death, a death that can give life to at least two and a death that can change at least one… a death that makes me live even after my death! Leo Tolstoy said, “I too will die and grass grows on my grave. But I’m waiting for a chance to die for a noble cause”!  Yes, we too will die, but why if we die for a worthless cause?! Our death should carry worth, a meaning as did our life, as long as we lived it!

               Whenever I see someone who lost their life in an accident, I start worrying that I too may end up like that! I’m not afraid of death, but afraid of dying at the cost of human errors like a jerry-built building that collapses at the slightest instability or vehicles prone to high speeds or technologies that put lives at risk! Immersed in the lust of speed and technology, man is making his own life vulnerable and insecure! Technology is no hope and future is no safe.       

            

                                                              “I WANNA DIE BIG!”

Regards... K J Sudhira Spurthi.