One of the lessons I learned from Viktor is that no matter what the circumstances of life one always has choices. It may appear ,especially in difficult times that we have no control but there re always options. This had a lasting impact on me because this wisdom came from a man who had lost almost everything. His wife,parents and a host of others had been murdered by the Nazis.He had been in 4 concentration camps and was beaten ,starved and totally emaciated.Despite these horrible burdens he had typhus and experienced frostbite, starvation and the daily misery of seeing others tortured and murdered. He choose to live if that was possible and focused on the future when the nightmare would end.
Viktor was not a Pollyanna and so I choose to believe that no matter what comes my way I will have choices. Like every other person I have no control over the unexpected but I always have options as to how I respond.
S. J. Tagliareni 