F is for Family
Family is the group of people you see when you peek through your childhood windows. It’s our link to the past. It’s where our story begins. Whether we like or not we are put into these familiar tribes that are meant to be sacred relationships, yet we’re jerks to each other. Then we get all self-righteous about it. Then you go months, if not years, not talking. Sometimes you can’t even be in the same room. The gap keeps getting bigger and bigger and all over what? Do you even remember? I think it’s a pretty relatable story. No family is immune to these conflicts. Some broken relationships will stay estranged for obvious reasons, but most family squabbles are petty and about uncontrolled anger and judgment. Conflicts that are due to pride and intolerance. Don’t spend your last penny on a grudge. Families should stick together and stand by each other even when our differences may launch us in opposite directions. Families seem to be modelling the rest of the world whic