A Year Without Father
In 1941, Stefan Zweig wrote his autobiography The World of Yesterday in which he called the era in which he grew up as “Golden Age of Security”. As a child, he felt that this world would last forever. To me, it seems that many of us have also grown up in an age of security when our parents are with us. We all consider that age as never ending. But we all know, it is not meant to be that way. Our age of security, like Zweig’s, is fated to come to an end. The problems we faced without a father, or parents I should say, are daunting and look hard to solve. But what I want to impress upon my readers is that it is not. It is up to us. At the end, what matters is how we respond.
