BEING CHILDLIKE
We all live today although sometimes we wish that it was still yesterday. For a young person, this yesterday is childhood, a completed phase of his life, which today appears to him like a closed circle. Life has enforced the resolution out of it, and he can no longer find access. If it was a sunny time for him for the most part, he may wonder at what cost has this loss happened.
He sees his current situation. His professional career or educational trajectory supports and guides him. He encounters the views of the world, which are actually more the demands the world makes on him. The young man experiences the ideal and the actual side by side. He would like to live in an ideal sense; for in this way a great second circle of his life, his youth, could join the first, childhood. Two ideal circles of his existence, which could then be joined by a hopeful third, adulthood. But these hopes are countered by today's reality, which draws him into everything it has to offer. Thus he must
