Fragile Friday - Family Relationship

As the old saying goes, you can choose your friends but you sure as hell can't choose your family.  Friends come and goes but family is always family.  Some families are really close and others are so distant that you are surprised when they mention that they have family.  Through the years, we have lost some because it was their time and others were just unacceptable.  I envy those families that have stayed together in the same area so they can have each other for support.  In the olden days, most families do not have the choice to venture out somewhere far.  They usually have to stay around their parents and help out in the farm or some type of business.  Now a days, it's very seldom you will meet someone who has lived all their lives in the same place they were born.  Most people have move around because of work, relationship, better living conditions or for adventure.  But when you do, this is the part where you have to make some difficult decisions for your family.  Once you make that decision, then you will have to live with it and sometimes others cannot or does not forget nor forgive.  Families who are living so far apart, eventually grow apart.  They don't see each other, they all have busy lives and there's not much you can do, except understand.  The one benefit for now is that technology allows you to communicate and actually get a chance to see them while they tell their stories.  But what happens when you are not on the same page or maybe there's a bit of misunderstanding between families.  As an adult you think that's an easy solution, but at times when family gets older and life changes, the relationship becomes fragile and it causes more friction.  So let's try a variety of saying that might be more applicable. Life is short, forgive and forget, let's just try to get along.  By the way, this post should have been for Monday, February 17, it's Family Day.