Joe Goldberg

Thoughts on parents

Most parents haven’t lived 40 years, not even 20. They’re perspective monsters, and not because they’re unable to understand different perspectives, but because they don’t want to, and that’s the problem with millions, if not billions, of parents these days. They don’t try to understand. They don’t stop. They don’t ask. They never wonder what it feels like to be someone who’s not them. They never even try.