From: Xavier Ginesta
Speaker B: That's a deep question. It's interesting because normally we tend to think of our parents as wiser than us. But when I hear your question, I feel that probably what I'm richer in is precisely in wisdom. I think that my parents lived at a time when they had no space for inner growth because their main concern was survival, right?
Surviving and doing their best to grow their family and to help us become who we are now, their children, was their main and almost only goal. They barely had room for expanding their consciousness, right? They barely had room for becoming a better and wiser version of themselves. I think that thanks to them, thanks to their effort and sacrifice, I've been able to do that.
Speaker A: Mm-hmm.
Speaker B: If it hadn't been for them and for their sacrifice, I wouldn't be where I am. I'm sure I owe it to my parents. They gave me the opportunity to be where I am. I think, in a way, I'm richer than them in terms of wisdom.
And I think probably they are richer than me, or they were richer than me in terms of sacrifice. I think nowadays it's almost unthinkable to even imagine what our parents and ancestors had to go through to make their living. Today, it would be unbearable, the level of pain, the level of suffering. When I think of my parents' life—my father was born at the end of the Spanish Civil War, and he was with the losers of the war, his family.
So they were lucky they were not just killed. And same thing with my mother. Also, she was on the side of the ones that lost the war. And they went through enormous suffering to just live and survive.
The capacity they had to actually, Build a family the way they did and take us to our highest potential like they did was something that I don't know if I would be prepared now to do. So that's my answer.