If only !

The following would be my first “serious” attempt at writing a short story.

If Only…….

“Something interesting happened today eh?” enquired the professor, seeing the Principal’s smiling face.

The Principal replied, “Well it’s just that I met this young man outside the theatre, the bohemian kind you see a lot in Vienna these days, the result of the lax and pathetic royal policies……”

“Anyways” he continued,” the lad said he had appeared for the entrance examination at our Vienna Academy of Fine Arts and failed. But he was convinced there was some mistake on part of the academy and that he was destined to be a great artist…..

Well you know, he had this tenacity about him and strong ambition and tremendous self-belief, so I asked him to show me his drawings without revealing that I was the principal at that same academy”

“Oh the humble Herr Principal” poked the professor.

Ignoring the remark the Principal continued, “Well our people were not mistaken, the drawings were strictly average”

“So you asked him try harder?”

“No, somehow I could sense that no matter what, he was not cut out to be an artist……. He must have read my mind because he immediately launched into this monologue about how he was hand-picked by mother destiny and so on and that he would try harder and harder till he got in the academy .……….”

“But I didn’t feel so and after quite a lot of discussion I was able to convince him accordingly, plus” the Principal added mockingly, “I am sure it wouldn’t have been like thousands and thousands of people would have hailed and praised me for taking that young man in and giving them a good artist as a result”

The professor joined in, “True true, ha ha, anyways who was he?”

“He said his name was Adolf Hitler, a German Catholic from Linz”



Well was it worth pondering ?