Shining Star International School Student Blog

The secret to survive in this world- By Dilsha XI A

Posted on January 24, 2017

The Hitler era in Germany- A chapter I’m glad I skipped in my history class. I still don’t have the stomach to sit and read the merciless ways of man- kind being killed. I can’t imagine the mental state of those unfortunate ones who survived the concentration camps. With these memories engraved in their minds, how are they leading a normal life?

I was told the story about one of them. He had survived the concentration camp when he was a mere teenager. People were being carried like charcoal in carriages of the train during the winter month when the temperatures won’t rise up more than 2 degree Celsius. More than a hundred people, Jews to be precise, in a carriage without food, water or even a roof above them and this young boy was among them. He noticed an old man sitting in a corner shivering what might be his last moments. He went to him and started rubbing his feet and hands. On what intention? Just to keep him warm. The old man’s fingers were so cold that even if it was cut not a drop of blood would fall. Still the boy kept on rubbing and hugging the old man.  The train reached the destination were millions of frozen to death bodies were being dumped. When the boy looked around only he and the old man was still breathing.

That’s how human beings survive- by warming our hearts by warming others’. Anyone can argue that it was just pure science that by rubbing the old man’s hands and feet, the boy warmed his own too in the process and thus both of them survived. Simple right?  Maybe that’s why I think majority of humans take up that explanation, because it’s simple.

The only way to survive is to breath but what is the purpose? Well that just depends on the way you see the story. No need of asking Google.