[ WP ] for generations humans have lived in connected buildings , never going outside . After getting lost one day you find a door labeled EXIT .

EXIT 
 
 The door was labeled. 
 
 `` Exit from where?'' I wondered. `` To where?''. I knew that whole idea of exploration was a gone away affair from the very start. 
 
 My friend, on this afternoon got this brilliant idea that we could go on exploring the western wing of the locality. I was n't interested, of course. After all, the western wing was out limits to ordinary citizens. It was a reserved sector for government and security officials. 
 
 Also, the whole system of spending the whole life interconnected buildings had always confused me. In school we learned about different planets that have been made of, so called `` earth''. It hsx always made me wonder, why was our planet made of these steel and other materials? Why not earth? 
 
 `` John, the sector is off limits, you know that right?'' I suggested. 
 
 `` So?'' He asked `` That does n't mean we ca n't go in there!'' 
 
 `` Yes'' I said, `` Off limits means exactly that.'' 
 
 `` Wrong'' He replied shaking his head `` C'mon it's just an exploration. We wo n't be doing something funny there. Besides, what could go wrong?'' 
 
 What could go wrong? Oh well.... 
 
 I do n't have to say that. John very tactfully had evaded the guards patrolling the gateway to the sector and we were soon inside. The sector was normal as the ours. Simple looking buildings, nothing unusual. It was very boring to say the truth. John, perhaps had also understood the fact. So, he tried to do something interesting. 
 
 `` Wan na visit the Mayor's Office?'' He asked. 
 
 `` You know where it is?'' 
 
 `` Of course! Race me to there! Let's see who is the fastest'' Saying so he ran ahead of me in a childish maneuver. I hated when John behaved liked it and the sudden competition shook me. Therefore, I started running well after and behind John. 
 
 It was very soon that I lost him. 
 
 Imagine John's intelligence! He knew that I knew nothing of the place and yet he ran ahead of me. Now... I am lost! 
 
 A fear gripped my heart. How was I supposed to go back? I started walking west in hope of finding someone from whom to ask for help. 
 I found no one. 
 Instead, I found this door. 
 
 `` EXIT'' It said in bold red letters. Exit yes, but from where? And to where?. The door had a very simple handle. A hope illuminated my mind. 
 
 What if, it was the exit from the west wing to the east? 
 
 Without thinking anything more, I pulled it open. What I saw, could n't be described in any possible way. 
 
 It was n't my familiar east wing. It was n't at all a wing! It was something different all together. It was a huge landscape, filled with all kinds of metal and still. The soft floor or whatever I was standing upon was brown as if poisoned. 
 
 A bright orange coloured disc hanged on the roof from which light was emerging. The whole area was devoid of human life but was looking like a huge dumping ground. The air was not fresh and fumes surrounded the place. I, presently started feeling nauseous and thought it was best to turn back. 
 
 I went towards the door and tried to open it. 
 
 Nothing happened. 
 
 I tried once more. Still nothing. 
 
 Since then, I do n't know how many times have I tried to open it but to no avail. Strange marks are appearing on my skin and I am having problem in breathing. Slowly, I closed my eyes as my body was swallowed in ever lasting pain. 
 
 
 In the headquarters of Security Council of National Wings, the senior security team watched the boy suffer in their monitor. His lifeless body falling down. 
 
 `` That was done for the best of all'' The team Commander said. Others slowly nodded their heads. 
 
 `` People shall not know that there was once a world outside'' He continued `` That was once green and life containing'' 
 
 `` Yes'' One of the members whispered `` But then...'' 
 
 `` Yes'' The commander continued `` Then the greed of our forefathers made that heavenly land suffer. Suffer until nothing was left... but death'' 
 
 He took a last glimpse at the monitor. 
 
 `` If I would n't have locked that door'' He continued `` Huge amount of radiation would have entered into the wings along with the boy. The boy had no chance of survival but with that we would've been dead too.'' 
 
 As the team readied themselves to depart, they took a last glimpse at the monitor. The boy was still there, his lifeless eyes gaping into emptiness. 
 
 The commander turned off the monitor. 
 

