Character: Preobrazhenskaya

The connection that exists in nature, says Goethe, also exists in the human world. Man is a collective being, and only by working shoulder to shoulder with other people, only by giving himself to others, does a person acquire his strength and his meaning.

Since ancient times, people have dreamed of eternal youth, for youth is a feeling of the fullness of being, it is a surge of creative strength, it is a thirst for activity, it is a belief in the possibility of happiness, in the possibility of fulfilling a beautiful dream.

When a person climbs a mountain, when he boldly walks forward and more and more horizons open up in front of him, then at some moments he wants to look back at the path he has traveled, he wants to see those milestones that once stood on his way, to measure the distance traveled by him, to glimpse the difficulties that stood in front of him and with which he had to fight. The same natural desire exists in humanity when, in its incessant movement forward, it reaches a certain stage of social development.