Parents, Why Did You Give Birth to Me?
Comment: A girl sued her parents because she was born without her consent. As if she could somehow agree. And at first she even won the court.
Below I quote this young girl from her Instagram post:
“A few months ago I sued my folks for having me without my permission. And I won. So the court ordered them to pay me $5,000 a month to cover my basic expenses. Well, they went and had that appealed. So now they don’t have to give me any money. And now I have to go get a job. And I’m realizing, like I don’t have any work experience, or any higher education. Nowhere is paying me $5,000 a month. So how the hell am I supposed to afford to pay my bills? … Don’t have children if you don’t want to support them.”
My Response: She’s partly right. It only depends on how much and up to what age to help. Because if you give birth, you take responsibility.
Comment: But she is a grown-up girl. Someone who can study and work a bit. But this is the relation to the world in which a person simply does not want to be.
My Response: I understand her. If she really does not want to relate to the world and regrets that she exists, then her claims against her parents, in general, can be understood.
Question: What are these claims against parents?! They supported her as best they could. And at some point they stopped supporting her. She has to support them at some point. What kind of claims are these?!
Answer: But it depends on society, on education.
Comment: Many people have such a question: “Why was I born?” Some make claims to parents: “Why did you give birth to me?” and others ask the question: “Why was I born?” You are always advocating for this question to arise in a person.
My Response: Of course. So that a person finds out what he is born for explicitly.
Question: And to whom should one send this question?
Answer: To oneself. Whom else? What did the parents know about it? Also nothing. And I don’t know anything. They don’t have any questions, but I do. So go and find out.
Question: If I ask myself this question, can I find the answer in myself?
Answer: Yes. You can find this answer only in yourself.
Question: And what will it be like?
Answer: Whatever you will find. Look for the meaning of life.
Question: When a person asks himself this question, and, for example, an answer comes to him, at what point is he sure that this answer is correct? Does a person have such confidence?
Answer: Let him search. And he will select all possible questions and answers that he will have at the same time, and he will get to something interesting.
Comment: If a person, for example, is not looking for an answer to this question, but simply lives in this life and that’s it. He has no such ups and downs.
My Response: If not, very good, let him live quietly. A person who is looking for an answer in himself, on the other hand, really has a desire, an urgent need, to find out about himself, about his history, his fate: where I am from, where am I, what am I for, and so on.
Question: Do you welcome this?
Answer: Of course. He can become a human, that is, can understand: what he is here for, and what kind of secret is in him.
Question: A happy person for you is one who feels ups and downs, descents and ascents, in search of the meaning of life. Big ascents and big descents?
Answer: Yes. But he’s a Human.
Question: And is this a happy man?
Answer: I do not know if he is happy.
Question: And when will he be happy?
Answer: When he gets to his core: to what he exists for.
Question: Can happiness be permanent if he gets to this core?
Answer: Yes, then he will be in constant happiness. Because he will merge precisely with the question and answer that he asked himself.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 8/18/22
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