When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.
Interpretation
Having children changes how you view your own relationship with your parents.
This quote by Salman Rushdie emphasizes the transformative experience of parenthood, suggesting that becoming a parent allows individuals to gain a deeper understanding of their own parents' perspectives and challenges. It highlights the way new responsibilities and emotional connections can alter one's views on family dynamics and relationships.
In practice
During a parenting seminar, you might introduce this quote to illustrate the profound changes that come with raising children.
I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.
Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
faith without doubt is addiction
I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.
In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no excuse. Yet we go on skating around this issue, speaking of religion in the fashionable language of 'respect.' What is there to respect in any of this, or in any of the crimes now being committed almost daily around the world in religion's dreaded name?
Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.
The abused children are alone with their suffering, not only within the family, but also within themselves. They cannot crate a place in their own soul where they could cry their beart out.
I have a deep tribal sense. I grew up in a synagogue that my ancestors built. I sat in the third row. My family was decent. They were good people; they were handshake people. So I never had a sense of rebellion.
There are two facts that all children need to disprove sooner or later; mother and father. If you go on believing in the fiction of your own parents, it is difficult to construct any narrative of your own.
My mother was terribly important to me, and I know how much I yearned for her in my youth, but I don't think I truly trusted her.
For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
Part of my whole project from the beginning was to make an absent world present for my parents, which was India.
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