Family, Family, and Family

You can pick your friends but you can’t pick your family….isn’t that what they say.  Well I come from such a diverse family.  Any when I say diverse I mean with widely different personalities and choices of lifestyles.  This can be conflicting.  I’m talking about those moments when everyone is sitting at the table and you can keenly see the divide. Think about Thanksgiving, Christmas, wedding, graduations, and so forth, those awkward break of silences in conversations or the feeling that anything you say could be taken as an insult.  Does anyone ever question why families like this insist on getting together when deep down inside we would rather be watching re-runs of Law and Order all day?  Just a joke, I secretly love Law and Order. But anyways, when does it come to a point when we are honest with each other.  We have to stop pretending that we are such fragile creatures.  Maybe with honesty, relationships can become better.  Delivery is everything, and if you are able to perfect your ability to explain how you feel, those around us may actually end up feeling better as well.