Making the Best of What's Left Quotes

“In this clever tale (a parable from Your Sacred Self by Dr. Wayne Dyer) two babies living in their mother's womb - call them Baby A and Baby B - are arguing whether there's life after delivery. Baby A considers the notion nonsense. How would they walk? How would they eat? What kind of life could such a life possibly be? Baby B insists that maybe they'll walk and eat and live in ways that they simply can't imagine right now, that maybe they'll have legs to walk on, that they might not need an umbilical cord anymore, that perhaps there'll even be a little more light. The argument continues, with Baby A shrewdly pointing out that no one has ever returned from After Delivery and that therefore is nothing but darkness and silence and oblivion. But Baby B in unconvinced; he insists that after delivery they will meet Mother and Mother will take care of them, a statement that Baby A finds utterly laughable. Because if Mother exists, he points out to Baby B, how can it be that no one has ever seen her?”
― Judith Viorst, Making the Best of What's Left: When We're Too Old to Get the Chairs Reupholstered