Videsi Short Stories - Battle In The Dark
BATTLE IN THE DARK It’s 8 degrees outside, the cold is chilling down the spine. I switched off the lights and ducked in to my blanket. Immediately the shutters on my eyes moved down swiftly with out permission. Its dark, it’s deafening, it’s void. May be it is the most pleasant experience I have ever felt. In not more than few seconds the deafening silence got breached leaving eyes still closed. From one side of the room entered a gigantic personality. Walking slowly around the bed like a robot & looking sharply like a knife he looked like the great warrior ‘Alexander’. Bending gently towards me he whispered “A person is identified not by the intellect, not by the knowledge, only by his achievements”. “Fine, but who are you?” I interrupted. “The Achiever, the Performer, the Winner. What else do u want?” After stopping for a second the giant continued “The tree in the woods is surviving, the rock on the hill is surviving and you are surviving. Don’t you think you are different fro