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Jerry Seinfeld with a great fatherhood anecdote in this video. It explains something I've thought about many times: "One of the nice things God does, is that he doesn't let people who don't have kids know what they're missing." And once you have kids, something opens up in your brain that you didn't know was there. In other words, it's incomprehensible until it happens. That's how it was for me. I couldn't understand it no matter how hard I tried. I even went through a phase in my 20s where I thought I might not even want kids. That phase was thankfully brief, but it's helpful for me to remember when speaking with people who are in that phase themselves. Nobody has ever really appreciated it until they're in it themselves. If life before kids feels like a separate lifetime, that's because it is.