Change what you can change and don’t worry about what you can’t change
Vojtěch Janoušek was born on the 15th of January 1945 in the Podolí hospital in Prague. He had five siblings and grew up in a Christian environment - his father was an active member of the Christian democratic party and the secretary of the Catholic Youth Club. Between the years 1953 and 1954 the State Security first arrested his brother Jan and then both his father and mother. His sister was taking care of him at the time. The father was sentenced to ten years of prison for high treason and he went through prisons in Banská Bystrica, Jáchymov, Příbram, and Pankrác in Prague. Following his mother‘s release he visited his father in prison several times. He was not allowed to study at a university so he became a carpenter. Later he worked at a company called Vojenské Stavby, in 1963 he got married and had two children. In 1969 he took the Scout Promise and his dedication to the movement continues to this day. At the time of writing this text he was retired and lived in Prague 10. His garden is decorated with an iron cross installed by his father in 1947 as an expression of gratitude to God for protecting the family during the Second World War.