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as much as we would like it to be so life does not guarantee that the wellspring of our intellect and talent will be passed forward onto our children nor that they will share our passions and follow in our footsteps but it is out of unconditional love for our children that we accept that although they may not share our path they are free to chart their own to fulfillment and happiness this is true even for the greatest of minds among us and is illustrated beautifully in this letter from albert einstein to his 11 year old son hans albert [Music] one cannot pass through life without hearing of his name albert einstein was a phenomenon an intellectual comet that shook our world and one of the very few in history who walked alone rather than standing on the shoulders of giants his theories not only shaped our modern understanding of physics and the world around us but unlocked new innovative possibilities that had never ever been conceived yet he was also a human being vulnerable like you and i to the full spectrum of human emotion and dealing with more than his fair share of pain and loss written just days before he published his general theory of relativity you might think that at the time in which this letter was being composed einstein would have been at his peak his place about to be firmly cemented in the history books on the surface this scientific genius had it all but while he may have been rich in intellectual ability he was desperately poor in the relationships between him and those that mattered most to him his sons einstein tragically lost his first child when he was just one years of age and after the separation between him and his wife his two sons moved away with his wife to zurich while he stayed in war-torn berlin while his youngest son edward suffered with great ill health and would later become diagnosed with schizophrenia his oldest son hans albert suffered greatly with the separation of his parents and it is him which einstein writes to in this letter in it we see einstein not as the scientific magnate for which he was known but as a father a father wrestling to capture his son's attention who was then seemingly drifting out of his control due to the disillusion of his marriage a father desperate to connect with his son a father like any other who was determined to express his love he writes my dear albert yesterday i received your letter and was very happy with it i was already afraid you wouldn't write to me at all anymore you told me when i was in zurich that it is awkward for you when i come to zurich therefore i think it is better if we get together in a different place where nobody will interfere with our comfort i will in any case urge that each...