Motivate Others The Power of Positivity 82

There's three things you don't know until you have a baby. The one is that you didn't grow up, yet. Because you actually don't grow up until someone else is more important than you. You can't. So people think they grow up if they don't have children, but they don't. They just think they do. Now, there are some people who make sacrifices of other sorts, but this is a whole different ball of wax, as far as I'm concerned. It's not a very elegant metaphor, but... You learn that it's kind of a relief not to be the center of attention. That's cool. That you can sit back. Because, of course, your child in your family and in society is immediately the center of attention. And so, unless you're narcissistic, then you allow that to happen. And then you learn all sorts of really good things about other people, because other people really like babies. It's so cool. I lived in Montreal when we had our first child, and I lived in a pretty rough neighborhood, by Montreal standards, right? It's like, you know, Montreal is such a great city, like Toronto. It's like even the rough neighborhoods, they're more like charming, with a little, you know, dark underbelly, something like that. But there were some rough characters in our neighborhood, and it was pretty poor. And we'd push her around in her stroller, and these, like, grizzled, wrecked old guys would come by. They'd look at her, and they'd just light up, and they'd come over and, like, smile at her. And, you know, you just saw the positive element of their humanity just well forth. There has to be something seriously wrong with you, if you don't respond that way to a baby, you know? I mean, that's not good. That's not good.