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Eric Siu reflects on how becoming a parent shifted his priorities away from himself. Having a kid forced him to care about someone else's needs more than his own, giving him a sense of meaning he didn't have before.
Eric Siu reflects on how becoming a parent shifted his priorities away from himself. Having a kid forced him to care about someone else's needs more than his own, giving him a sense of meaning he didn't have before.
I think having a kid is the first time in your entire life that you are not innately selfish. My wife might be angry at me for saying that, but I think it's true. Like, until you have something that is really a part of you in that way, everything is about yourself, and it's about status and prestige and money and all these things that are so just like textureless, right? Like, come and go, and you chase them your whole life and not find any fulfillment. And I have found just so much meaning since he's been born of feeling like, okay, this is the reason I'm here. And like— Yeah, the real reason. And for both of us, my wife feels the same way. But that, like, that to me is— it's really the first time that you have to give up your innate selfishness and feel like without question you would dive in front of a car for this thing.
