April 21,2010
The biggest similiarity between a blog and a actual diary is that they should both be updated regualrly. However, unlike a diary where your thoughts are those you keep to yourself, a blog allows us to share thoughts that perhaps can reach out to those around us in a medium that allows us from being rejected, hurt, or otherwise, belittled.
Yesterday, I shared my thoughts on selfishness and how it affects our lives. Today most of my thoughts are random and may drift from one place to another, so, if you will bear with me, hopefully something wonderful will come from this. :)
As a young girl, I always looked forward to family gatherings and reunions. It provided me with the opportunity to see family that I normally didn't see on a daily basis as well as all the wonderful food!!! Oh, the food itself was a reason alone to go, but it was always second to me just so that I could be around family. As a child, family was something of an enigma, something I couldn't figure out. Honestly, I do not recall alot of my childhood, which in itself is sad, as most of the pictures show me either laughing, smiling, with my older sisters around me, almost in a protective stance. (How I miss that!).
I do recall spending sometime in my room, reading or playing with dolls or whatever, but the older I became, I noticed that our family was constantly going in separate directions. I deeply love my older sisters....to me they were the definition of "grown-up" and seemed to have everything going for them. My sisters are just as beautiful now as they were when we were growing up and although they do not know this, I have always admired them for their ability to be successful in their lives. Even to this day, we when have family gatherings, looking at them they are happy and have such a good life. Don't we want that for our own family?
My brother, who is closer to my in age, is a man just like our father. He is dedicated to whatever he does and does not rest until he knows he has done what has needed to be done. Growing up, I remember playing football with him in the front yard, each of us wearing our favorite NFL teams jersey and helmet. He liked the Dallas Cowboys and I was a Minnesota Viking.....back then they were bitter rivalries!! Everything back then was so much simpler and the fun we had! Now, he is a grown man with a family of his own and, like my older sisters, is a successful adult. The thing I love most about my brother is his sense of humor! Between him and my sisters, when they get together, it always turns out to be a comedy routine.
The way in which a family interacts with one another reflects alot in the way that a family treats others, I think. Sometimes I think it goes beyond the Golden Rule. Especially today when everything is communicated through cell phones and computers, interacting in a personal manner has become, well, impersonal. Writing letters has been replaced with email and the television has replaced the family dinner table. Sometimes I think that we get so engrossed in our daily lives that we tend to forget that there are those around us, including family, that are struggling to keep their boats afloat.
If we lose sight of the bigger picture, and get caught up in the way the world is going, we are losing a part of ourselves that we will never be able to recover.
Family gatherings shouldn't only take place on Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter, Mother's Day or Father's Day, it should be an everyday event filled with laughter and love.
What is the point of the popular home decoration, "Live, Laugh, Love", if it's not put into practice?
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