Life Is Short!

"My parents and I were living in a refugee settlement in Vienna after we left the former Soviet Union. Everything was uncertain, scary, and pretty terrible. This didn't stop my dad from announcing one day that we were going to visit the opera house in Vienna. I thought playing tourists was ridiculous - we had no money, no citizenship and no home. 'We don't know if we'll ever be back here,' my dad said. 'Life is short. It's stupid to sit here and wallow in our troubles.'" - Nataly Kogan