00:00At our club, we have seen little boys, 12, 13 years old.
00:04Their concern is our parents should not get to know that we are training for martial arts
00:08because they won't allow.
00:09So that is quite odd for me since my parents were really supportive.
00:15That's needed.
00:17That's very much needed.
00:19When I was training for squash, I had a nice, quite competent coach.
00:26And he was coaching other age groups as well.
00:32So he said, Indians do very well till the under 15, under 17 kind of stage.
00:41And then they kind of disappear.
00:44Now we do have Anahat Singh and she has done very well.
00:48I asked him, why?
00:51Why?
00:52Because most parents enroll their kids in this sport because this sport, squash, is not very
01:03competitive in India.
01:05So the kid can get to a top 100 level relatively easily in his age bracket.
01:15And the surprise is coming.
01:18And that enables the kid to gain admission in the sports quota in some American university.
01:24And that's game over.
01:27Listen, give birth to a kid only when you have enough self-love.
01:33If you can't even love yourself, how will you love the kid?
01:37And then you will distort the kid's life and choices in just so many ways because the kid
01:45is dependent.
01:46And you can do so many things that he cannot question.
01:50So be good to yourself.
01:52In some sense, that's what the entire field of spirituality is about.
01:59Be good to yourself.
