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Today, more than ever, we see how elderly people are being increasingly abandoned. In many cases, their children do not care about them and do not even call. Children today are feeling less and less connection to their parents. Their parents might be dying, and they remain indifferent.
Why? It is because they have outgrown their animal level of desires, i.e., the instinctive bond, and feel no natural attachment anymore. Helping, providing for, and thinking about parents simply does not arise on its own anymore. We should thus no longer deceive ourselves and force what no longer exists. This natural connection has faded and is not coming back.
Today, if we continue helping our children, they will need us. We will stay close to them as long as we give them something. But the moment we stop doing so, they will feel no need for us anymore. That is how nature has arranged things in our time. I am generalizing here, of course, and there are indeed exceptions where relationships are still warm and genuine. Rather, I am speaking about the general trend of nature today, not isolated examples.
Looking ahead, the gap will only widen. In our generation, parents can still give guidance, inheritance, and advice. In the next generation, even that will weaken. Unless parents and children share the same goals that extend beyond our material existence, they will drift apart entirely.
Moreover, parents will not think much about their children either. They will think about spending their final years peacefully, surrounded by friends and companions, maybe even pets. We already see clubs opening for seniors with various small activities like playing cards, dominoes, and bingo to fill the void.
Is there anything positive about such a trend? No, nothing. It is simply how nature develops us. A different kind of connection is growing in demand today, no longer an earthly or animal bond based on biology and obligation, but a spiritual one.
The parent-child bond must now be based on something higher: a common pursuit of life’s meaning and purpose. If parents, children, and even grandchildren reveal a common goal—to attain the purpose of existence—that goal will bind them together. Without it, nothing will connect them.
If parents guide their children toward the spiritual goal, they will create unity both on the earthly level and on the higher, spiritual level. This will lead to the revelation of the spiritual quality of mutual connection, bestowal, and love between them.
Today, no one wants to discuss, teach about, or encourage such a connection. People rely on biological ties alone, but we will continually see that without a common greater goal beyond our material lives, such connections will increasingly fade.
If these words sound harsh, it is not my intention. I am describing how reality operates today, and this is the world we have created. It is more beneficial to reveal this situation openly instead of hiding it behind illusions. By seeing the low base state we are falling into, we can start seeking a way out. Therefore, if we find no common, spiritual goal, nothing will connect us. And that is why I call upon everyone to look for this common goal. By dusting away our illusions and viewing this goal clearer before our eyes, we will build new, reinvigorated, and much stronger bonds than we ever had before, not only between parents and children, but across human society as a whole.
Based on KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman on January 6, 2020. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.
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