A short YouTube monologue by Vishen Lakhiani (uploaded Jan 20, 2023) in which he humorously urges people to have children because kids expose truth, admits parents will 'screw them up', and frames parenting as a catalyst for personal awakening. The tone is candid, self-deprecating, and provocative.
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So have a child. Why children? Because children, you see their bullshit meter is pointing in the right direction. And they, at least before, two years before the adults in their life have captured, slaughtered and beheaded them from their heart, they can tell you that all of this looking, searching, seeking for happiness, all a lie they would tell you. So have a child. Because in truth, yeah, you are going to screw them up. But that's okay. Look at all of us. So one more. No problem. But perhaps you will awaken. How about that? That's a good trade off. You tell your child sorry when you go visit them in the institution that they are in, you're like, oops, sorry, I'll pay for your therapy. But look, Mommy's awakened. I woke up. I tell my daughter, you know, she's the price. She's the price for the prize. She's like, why me, Mom? I'm like, I don't know. You chose me, child. I didn't ask for you.