Greetings good citizen, I'm expecting a houseful for a holiday feast then we are traveling to my father-in-laws for dessert.
In this I count myself blessed. I have a family that is the envy of most of my peers and I have learned to value that closeness. [I say 'learned' because my home life wasn't anything like what it is now.]
Everybody's situation is different and in this we all 'make our own bed'. I am not spending the holiday with any of my siblings, they have other fish to fry (although one of my sibling's children and her child will be joining us for dinner and dessert so it's not about blood, it's about choices.)
Part of the breakdown of modern civilization is due to the 'either you accept me as I am or kiss-off!' attitude that pervades our species. We have come to value our 'individuality' more than membership in our families...and we blame the family for not accepting us!
Thus do we refuse to join together with those who have loved us unconditionally from the beginning.
Ouch! I'm sure that's a thorn that has pricks all around it!
Those who felt 'unloved' by their families fail to appreciate it was a 'self-inflicted wound'...and nobody misses the 'drama and tension' caused by often firey and tearful accusations of being uncaring or unloving.
It's never been about getting love but giving it. Sometimes it's ALL we have to give and when it isn't enough there isn't anything anybody can do about it except have their heart broken by the one we love that doesn't care that we love them because its not enough for them.
If we were to boil away the BS we would find the true problem with society is failure to appreciate being loved for who we are and not for what (or how much) we have.
So ends the parable of happiness coming from within, I am blessed because I belong to a family that has shown me what love is.
May we all be so fortunate!
Happy Turkey Day [Happy Thursday or whatever it is where you are!]
Gegner
In this I count myself blessed. I have a family that is the envy of most of my peers and I have learned to value that closeness. [I say 'learned' because my home life wasn't anything like what it is now.]
Everybody's situation is different and in this we all 'make our own bed'. I am not spending the holiday with any of my siblings, they have other fish to fry (although one of my sibling's children and her child will be joining us for dinner and dessert so it's not about blood, it's about choices.)
Part of the breakdown of modern civilization is due to the 'either you accept me as I am or kiss-off!' attitude that pervades our species. We have come to value our 'individuality' more than membership in our families...and we blame the family for not accepting us!
Thus do we refuse to join together with those who have loved us unconditionally from the beginning.
Ouch! I'm sure that's a thorn that has pricks all around it!
Those who felt 'unloved' by their families fail to appreciate it was a 'self-inflicted wound'...and nobody misses the 'drama and tension' caused by often firey and tearful accusations of being uncaring or unloving.
It's never been about getting love but giving it. Sometimes it's ALL we have to give and when it isn't enough there isn't anything anybody can do about it except have their heart broken by the one we love that doesn't care that we love them because its not enough for them.
If we were to boil away the BS we would find the true problem with society is failure to appreciate being loved for who we are and not for what (or how much) we have.
So ends the parable of happiness coming from within, I am blessed because I belong to a family that has shown me what love is.
May we all be so fortunate!
Happy Turkey Day [Happy Thursday or whatever it is where you are!]
Gegner
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