My family
Today I just couldn't sleep. Early in the morning nope at night around 0330 I got up and just watched my ceiling in Chandigarh. After an hour or so of trying I stopped the pretense of counting the sheep (I actually picturise them in Pahalgam jumping at night across a black fence). It didn't work so I had to stop it...ya ya Obvious Fact. So, i got up and clicked Star World wherein Stargate was on. Therein a guy who is on his deathbed states a wish that he wants to be reunited with his wife and kids forever. He says he loves his family.
Incident 2: The previous night at dinner, the guy who helped me at the buffet, told me that though he was from Biihar, born into a poor family, he has now made leaps and bounds at success getting into his status. He had settled his family (read kids and wife). And he had come a long way...a lil boy from Bihar......
Incident 3: A well known filmstar goes on and on in interviews about how much he loves and cares for his family. He would go to any lengths to defend and protect them which he demonstrated. Quite an infamous episode.... And his family....yes..wife and kids.
Why am I jotting these revolving thougths from my mind to this page? Cause I really think I want to know What is family? Is it an absolute term? Or does the concept change from time as we grow up?
We are born into a set, a couple and that along with any earlier ones constitute that a family. A set of grandparents are on it but aunts, uncles and cousins are not the constituent of the basic block. They are an extension to the family block. As we grow up and have kids; we move up the ladder and our kids join the family basic block. this is the regular set up...
But what about those siblings, you share your cot, your clothes, your toys , your food, and eventually your basic steps of life with?
You grow up defending them, getting protected by them. Not allowing them to tag along but allowing nobody to touch them. You are green with envy if you parents praise them though you grudginly admit them being better than yourselves at times. When your parents teach your siblings to share you hate it, but you hide sweets froma b'day party to bring back home.
Then why do these siblings never form part of each other's family!!!
Incident 2: The previous night at dinner, the guy who helped me at the buffet, told me that though he was from Biihar, born into a poor family, he has now made leaps and bounds at success getting into his status. He had settled his family (read kids and wife). And he had come a long way...a lil boy from Bihar......
Incident 3: A well known filmstar goes on and on in interviews about how much he loves and cares for his family. He would go to any lengths to defend and protect them which he demonstrated. Quite an infamous episode.... And his family....yes..wife and kids.
Why am I jotting these revolving thougths from my mind to this page? Cause I really think I want to know What is family? Is it an absolute term? Or does the concept change from time as we grow up?
We are born into a set, a couple and that along with any earlier ones constitute that a family. A set of grandparents are on it but aunts, uncles and cousins are not the constituent of the basic block. They are an extension to the family block. As we grow up and have kids; we move up the ladder and our kids join the family basic block. this is the regular set up...
But what about those siblings, you share your cot, your clothes, your toys , your food, and eventually your basic steps of life with?
You grow up defending them, getting protected by them. Not allowing them to tag along but allowing nobody to touch them. You are green with envy if you parents praise them though you grudginly admit them being better than yourselves at times. When your parents teach your siblings to share you hate it, but you hide sweets froma b'day party to bring back home.
Then why do these siblings never form part of each other's family!!!
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