Ben Stiller
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I remember he took me for a drive and he parked the car and he said, look, let's just meditate a little bit.
And like he had me close my eyes and just picture a color.
I think it was like purple or something.
He said, just like think of it as a soothing color.
And I don't know if he had been doing some therapy himself that he had this idea to do this, but he was just actually, you know, really trying to help me kind of, you know,
soothe myself and get over this event.
And as opposed to like a parent who was like, you know, like, never do that again.
And, you know, you're grounded or whatever.
I mean, that's interesting, you know, because that's one of those things you don't think about.
It's just like this visceral gut reaction.
And that's what I did.
And, you know, I guess that does say something about our relationship.
But he was always, for me, a very spiritual person and very – I think that's what people connected with him too because he had just like a really open heart.
Yeah, I was talking to my son about how, yeah, growing up with my parents, they would get recognized.
And on the street, my mom usually wouldn't want to talk to people for a long time or she'd say hi, but she wanted to just go on and just keep doing her thing.
And my dad would talk to people forever.