Notes while listening;
* No one has access to unlimited pleasure, even Dan Blizzballs. Pleasure by its nature is limited.
* Meaningful connections, well this can be a burden too because they are hard to find and it is not always ones own fault. People tend to let us down, and relationships too are limited and transient. Having children, well many have children in to dysfunctional conflict ridden relationships. Better to stay single and without children than bring them in to a war zone surely.
* Dread and hopelessness, well a family should not be a cover for those feelings, what if the relationship with ones wife becomes intolerable, one will have to face those feelings that the relationship was keeping at bay. One has to face all ones dread and hopelessness in deep meditation and surrender it to the Divine. Otherwise one will always live in fear.
* He talks about not having accomplished what one was born to do and not wishing one was here. Is this not also self improvement? Not being happy in the here and now unless...you made babies?
* I hope he finds a woman who he can live in peace and harmony with and make babies but the expectation of ones happiness or sense of fulfilment should be transcendent of everything because everything is passing, passing, passing.