FAMILIES

Family is a very strange story.

We all grow up loving our families (or hate them, depend on the conditions) and the rest of our family does the same. But, finally, except of love (that it is doubtful in many cases), how much do we know each other?

How much we know our sisters and brothers?

The answer will sock the majority of people, but the truth is that actually we don’t know each other.

Older bothers go for studies and left behind another member at least five years younger. Both of them continue their lives. In both minds there is the idea of the brother that they know, even if had passed many years of the separation.

My sister, for example, still thinks that I hate green and orange color, because I really hated when I was thirteen years old. And when she refers to her “educated” friends, she says to me “he reads a lot, you cannot imagine how much he reads”, ignoring the fact that I read more than them.

We live with our family till an age (in the same house or not) an after this we separate (literally or metaphorically).

Passing the years, talking with people of different mentality and nationality, I realized that this think happens in the entire world.

We think that we know our family, just because it is our family and we live at the same place, ignoring the fact that, if we want to know someone, we really try. It is not obvious that we know him just because of the family band.

Unfortunately, families stay at what they know till one age and prolong this knowledge during life. That’s why little families are really families (I mean persons that they really knows what happen and how the other members of the family go on, what is their evolution…).

This is not only friendships or relationships that are hard and difficult to keep them.

“Family” (with the really meaning of the word) is something that needs “work” too.

It is very difficult to try to know the others, especially when they belong to your own family and you think rightfully that you know them.

So, you just see what happens and you don’t try to understand it. You see actions and reactions of a person and you don’t look for the reason, you don’t try to find out the real character of him. And –mainly- you never think that things change and as they change they change even for your family. You mature, your friends mature and change.

SAME THING HAPPENS FOR YOUR FAMILY MEMBERS TOO.