Ms Lau acknowledged that the current state of the world may cause young people to have self-doubts.
“I think all of us in this time and space feel the pressures of stress, work, lots of anxieties about what’s going to happen, anxieties about what the world is turning out to be – which looks nasty all round – and also you feel unsure about yourself whether you can really become the best version of yourself. If you can’t, then why would you have another new version of you?” she said.
However, she said that the journey into partnership, marriage and then parenthood is “extremely beautiful” and comes with a “combination of heartache, sometimes tears … sometimes indescribable joy”.
“You can’t put it in words, and I think it makes for such a great life adventure,” said Ms Lau.
She shared that when she meets elderly people in neighbourhoods and asks them what they think of most often, they tell her most of the time that they think about their children and wish they could see them in their childhood again.
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