Family and friends.
Just a minute ago, someone on television said that he no longer considered having his brother as a brother. It made me think.
I hold my family true and dear, but I have friend with whom I am much, much closer. I tell them more and most of what I wouldn't and couldn't tell my blood family.
On the other hand, I was brought up with my family and with knowing the bonds between. We've (as every family) had the siblings turn their backs, disrupt the home, leave the family. Every time, they've been welcomed back. Sometimes not whole-heartedly, but welcome and invited nonetheless.
Friends are not quite the same. It is so easy to walk away from a friend when they've done wrong, and a challenge to welcome back. Have they changed? Do or Can I do this again?? The questions ramble. Trust is disrupted. Now what??
Perhaps it's the peer pressure of family and the matri- or patriarch who makes it easier. Friends are missed; a hole left unfilled. Yet it is easier to make a new connection, instead of a new relative.
What's the line of difference though? Where do you cut your family, versus your friends? Some friends are family and vice-versa. How does all that work??
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